SOFTIMAGE|XSI is production-proven 3D animation software for games, film and television. XSI offers a complete 3D modeling, animation, rendering and development toolset out of the box. - Luis Rei
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license. - Luis Rei
Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages. - Luis Rei
We often get asked how Digg works from a technology perspective, so wanted to shed some insight on this with our first post from the newly-launched technology blog. We’ll be posting regularly to give you a peek at what’s under the hood from the Digg development teams. Ask Ron - our Systems Engineering Lead - the exact number of servers we have in production and he’ll probably respond with, “I don’t honestly know.” I can say we’ve got dozens of web servers and dozens more DB servers. I can say with certainty it takes six specialized graph database servers to run the Recommendation Engine and we have another six to ten machines that serve files from MogileFS. But really, the numbers are the least interesting part of the equation. What makes Digg an interesting place to work are what the pieces are and how they fit together. - Luis Rei
MogileFS is our open source distributed filesystem. Its properties and features include: Application level, No single point of failure, Automatic file replication, "Better than RAID", Flat Namespace, Shared-Nothing, No RAID required, Local filesystem agnostic. - Luis Rei
The first type of device to pass this inflection point will be the GPU, as it goes from being a relatively specialized, function-specific coprocessor to a much more generally programmable, data-parallel device. When the GPU has fully made that shift, game developers will have the opportunity to rethink real-time 3D rendering from the ground up. - Luis Rei
XRG is an open source system monitor for Mac OS X. XRG allows you to monitor CPU activity, memory usage, battery status, machine temperature, network activity, disk I/O, current weather, and stock market data. - Luis Rei
PDFMiner is a suite of programs that aims to help analyzing text data from PDF documents. It includes a PDF parser, a PDF renderer (though only rendering text is supported for now), and a couple of nice tools to extract texts. Unlike other PDF-related tools, it allows to obtain the exact location of texts in a page, as well as other layout information such as font size or font name, which could be useful for analyzing the document. - Luis Rei
a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list. - Luis Rei
Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD. - Luis Rei
Due to "customer" demand I've quickly put together a gui and crontab python libs for setting auto changing wallpapers. See screenshot attached for demo. - Luis Rei
