Link Blogging

This past week got out of control fast, so I’m posting the Linkblog on Friday instead:

My employer uses a lot of Java, so I’m trying to brush up on the available solutions in a couple of domains – here are some ‘project managmenet’ solutions
JTrac – Java version of Trac – see above
Posterity is a web-based email system. Unlike most open source webmail applications Posterity is not just a web interface for IMAP servers..[it] uses its own database. Projects which combine mail and databases are really interesting to me.
Andrei Zmievski is one of the brightest people working on the PHP source, this page contains links to a lot of the talks he’s given at different conferences.
Something I’m looking into for BlogProj: A .net RSS Reader
I visit this blog [database-programmer.blogspot.com] about once a week, there’s always something interesting here
Review of Wrike, an online project management tool, and part of their sales pitch
Embedding JavaScript in Ruby
Data visualization of 2008 US movie box office revenues – I think there could be some interesting ways to use this visualization technique
I used to play WoW, but I always found that I preferred the idea of writing one to playing one.
These are some tools that might make that possible
Flow-based_programming – “flow-based programming (FBP) is a programming paradigm that defines applications as networks of “black box“processes, which exchange data across predefined connections by message passing…”- just when you thought you knew it all…
Mozilla is really starting to gear up to move the web into the future – check out The Concept
You’ll eventually see a series of blog posts based on the 501 movies listed in this book
Generating an SSL Certificate – I’m constantly having to look this up for people, or maybe you’d prefer the Debian Way ?
PgSQL string function reference – remind me to tell you some time about how I used these to completely corrupt my PgSQL database!
xjconf – Never enough XML parsing
table.pde, part of the code backing the excellent Visualizing Data, which I’m using to prepare my presentation for our annual Management Off-site.

Stuff in my backlog from last week:

1. Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement – Thanks Matt
2. Dot – The Userguide – Watch this blog for an upcoming project related to dot/graphviz!
3. Arguing with Users – I was one of the many users disappointed enough by Pidgin to “migrate”
4. Learning Perl the Hard Way – Maybe PHP needs one of these?
5. Tamarin project @ Mozilla – I want to see how this compares to SquirrelFish – can I actually get my hands on WebKit nightlies somewhere?
6. Javascript 2 – A Perl 6 Disaster – I must be the only person left who likes where JS2 is headed?
7. Mozilla 2 Roadmap – Anyone know of a more up-to-date version?
8. Ada Programming Book – Well, it’s definitely not Java; guess it’s time to really knuckle down and learn some real Ada.
9. The Wannabe Developers Manifesto – ##PHP often leaves me feeling this way
10. Oink – C++ Static Analysis
11. Wikipedia – List of Revision Control Software – I need to make my own “Matrix” site, like cmsmatrix.org – but abstracted to accept lists such as these.
12. TIOBE Index – PHP holding strong at #5
13. Join-Fu Slides – A series of talks by a MySQL employee, I’d like to compare some of his speed claims against other engines, see how much is MySQL specific – am I the only one who prefers Theta syntax?
14. A PgSQL Blog: CONNECT BY in 8.3? – I use this feature quite often in Oracle 10g, glad to see it making its way to the OSS engines.

Question for readers: Do you know of a good ML book? O’Reilly and Associates doesn’t seem to have one, nor Prentice-Hall PTR, and I never know who I can trust from the other publishers – they’ve been far too spotty in my experience.

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