Dorai

A few days ago I blogged about my plans to make RSS Bandit a desktop client for Google Reader. As part of that process I needed to verify that it is possible to programmatically interact with Google Reader from a desktop client in a way that provides a reasonable user experience. To this end, I wrote a command line client in IronPython based on the documentation I found at the pyrfeed Website. The command line client isn't terribly useful on its own as a way to read your feeds but it might be useful for other developers who are trying to interact with Google Reader programmatically who would learn better from code samples than reverse engineered API documentation. - Dorai

The goal of Programeter service is to provide you with insightful understanding on your programming team's know-how, contribution, performance and activity based on contributed source code. This tour will guide you through indicators, measured aspects and sample reports that you would receive as a part of Programeter service. - Dorai

Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. So far we have 19,730 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. Check out the Help page to see how you can edit any page right now, or the Project page for more information about Wikitravel and getting involved. - Dorai

Cloud Computing has entered mainstream media…but if you ask people what it is, many can’t really tell you. My job as the Technology Evangelist at GoGrid is to try to help people understand it, whether they be technical or not. We have several channels that we have been trying to communicate what cloud computing is, and each method talks to a different audience. However, I sometimes forget that not everybody is technical or loves technology as much as I do and when I start talking to those people, their eyes glaze over. - Dorai

Rattle is a free and open source data mining toolkit written in the statistical language R using the Gnome graphical interface. It runs under GNU/Linux, Macintosh OS X, and MS/Windows. Rattle his being used in business and for teaching data mining in Australia and internationally. The free and open source book, The Data Mining Desktop Survival Guide (ISBN 0-9757109-2-3) simply explains the otherwise complex algorithms and concepts of data mining, with examples to illustrate each algorithm using the statistical language R. The book is being written by Dr Graham Williams, based on his 20 years research and consulting experience in machine learning and data mining. An electronic PDF version is available for a small fee from Togaware ($40AUD/$35USD to cover costs and ongoing development); - Dorai