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These are my links for July 30th through July 31st:

• Xbox.com | Xbox Engineering Blog –
• jbr's node-resque at master – GitHub –
• Aaron Reed – Experiment 1 — 1 of 1 –
• Building a content aggregation service with node.js –
• DNode: Asynchronous Remote Method Invocation for Node.js and the Browser :: The Universe of Discord – Introducing DNode, a node.js library for asynchronous bidirectional remote method invocation. Network socket and websocket-style socket.io transports are presently available so system processes can communicate with each other and with processes running in the browser using the same interface.

These are my links for July 27th through July 28th:

• Paul Gross's Blog – Node.js, redis, and resque –
• Redis tutorial, April 2010 – by Simon Willison –
• Big Data in Real-Time at Twitter –
• Quora – What are the scaling issues to keep in mind while developing a social network feed? –
• Introducing Resque – GitHub –
• Node.js and Ruby –

These are my links for June 16th through July 7th:

• K-means and K-means++ with Python – 素心如何天上月 (Yong Sun's Blog) –
• Scott Rutherford › Simple Rails Oauth Functional & Integration Testing –
• Simple IF Interfaces – Horace Torys –
• idmillington's undum at master – GitHub – Undum is a game framework for building a sophisticated form of hypertext interactive fiction.
• Nivo Slider – The Most Awesome jQuery Image Slider –

These are my links for June 10th through June 15th:

• skozlov's netzke at master – GitHub – Netzke is a framework facilitating creation of reusable and extendable Ext JS + Rails components (widgets), plus a set of ready-to-use components to start with. It’s primarily meant for creating desktop-like web-applications (for example, back-ends), but can also be used to create widgets to be embedded into normal Rails HTML views.
• Faye: Simple pub/sub messaging for the web – Faye is an easy-to-use publish-subscribe messaging system based on the Bayeux protocol.
• mass:werk termlib – The JavaScript library "termlib.js" provides a `Terminal' object, which facillitates a simple and object oriented approach to generate and control a terminal-like interface for web services.
• Choice of Games Blog : 5 Rules for Writing Interesting Choices in Multiple-Choice Games – The hardest thing about writing a multiple-choice game in ChoiceScript is creating interesting choices for your players. Here are five rules you can follow to make decisions you write more fun and engaging.
• Adventure Book – Adventure Book for Inform 7 is a recreation of the behavior of Jon Ingold's Adventure Book programming system.

These are my links for June 1st through June 9th:

• How to turn your rails site into an OAuth Provider – Stake Ventures –
• Exploring OAuth-Protected APIs :: Drive-by Digressions –
• Quickstart – Overview – Quickstart – OpenAmplify – The OpenAmplify API is a web service you can access through a simple request to a URL.<br />
  <br />
  At its simplest, the API reads text you supply and returns linguistic data explaining and classifying the content. What you do with that analysis is, in the fine tradition of APIs and mashups, up to you. Some possibilities might include pairing ads with articles, creating rich tag-clouds, or monitoring the tone of forum threads.
• RSSCloud Vs. PubSubHubbub: Why The Fat Pings Win –
• Non-blocking ActiveRecord & Rails – igvita.com –
• Open Source RPGs – Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog –
• The Inside Scoop on Gaming – RPGnet –

These are my links for May 24th through June 1st:

• One-Roll Engine – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The One-Roll Engine (or O.R.E.) is a generic role-playing game system developed by Greg Stolze for the alternate history superhero roleplaying game Godlike.
• Wushu – Wushu Wiki ( Saberpunk.net ) – Wushu is a roleplaying game by Daniel Bayn, released under a Creative Commons license. Wushu rewards vivid, creative stunts, making it an ideal system for games based on action movies, adventure comics, and many other media.
• Ludus Novus » Blog Archive » LORE and Belief Released – LORE is an attempt to address some of the common problems with tabletop RPGs. It has an interesting dice system; a quick, easy, and original character creation system; and a system that’s lightweight, because roleplaying happens beyond the rules.
• Open Game License – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The Open Game License (or OGL) is an open content license designed for role-playing games.
• Ellis Nadler – Cards of Wu –
• The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify as Jesus are forced to live together? – By Vaughan Bell – Slate Magazine – This may be the nearest we can get to revelation—the understanding that our most cherished beliefs could be wrong.
• Playing Hooky a.k.a. web hooks – So what are web hooks? Lets start with examples, followed by theory, and then cap it off with code.
• LincityWiki – LinCity-NG is a city simulation game. It is a polished and improved version of the classic LinCity game. In the game, you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships.

These are my links for April 27th through May 20th:

• About Flaxo – Flaxo is a Flash-based interpreter for Interactive Fiction (IF) games compiled for Infocom's Z-Machine, versions 1-8 (except version 6).
• goosh – Project Hosting on Google Code – Terminal-style web shell for Google services (and others)
• JS/UIX – Terminal – JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written<br />
  entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a vir-<br />
  tual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-management,<br />
  and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-mapping.
• The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City « Viceland Games –
• World Geodetic System – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The World Geodetic System is a standard for use in cartography, geodesy, and navigation. It comprises a standard coordinate frame for the Earth, a standard spheroidal reference surface (the datum or reference ellipsoid) for raw altitude data, and a gravitational equipotential surface (the geoid) that defines the nominal sea level.
• The Improbability Pump – So why is it contemptible to reject germ theory but socially acceptable to reject evolutionary theory?

These are my links for April 9th through April 19th:

• Mr Jones Watches –
• jsplumb – Project Hosting on Google Code – This jQuery plugin provides a means for a developer to visually connect elements on their web page, in much the same way you might have seen on Yahoo Pipes. It uses Canvas in modern browsers, and Google's ExplorerCanvas script for stone-age browsers.
• OAuth Explained and What It Is Good For // RailsTips by John Nunemaker –
• AI4R :: Artificial Intelligence for Ruby – AI4R is a collection of ruby algorithms implementations, covering several Artificial intelligence fields, and simple practical examples using them. A Ruby playground for AI researchers.
• jashmenn's apriori at master – GitHub – Ruby Apriori is a library to efficiently find item association rules within<br />
  large sets of transactions.

These are my links for March 1st through March 15th:

• Geohash – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Geohash is a latitude/longitude geocode system invented by Gustavo Niemeyer when writing the web service at geohash.org, and put into the public domain. It is a hierarchical spatial data structure which subdivides space into buckets of grid shape.<br />
  Geohashes offer properties like arbitrary precision and the possibility of gradually removing characters from the end of the code to reduce its size (and gradually lose precision).<br />
  As a consequence of the gradual precision degradation, nearby places will often (but not always) present similar prefixes. On the other side, the longer a shared prefix is, the closer the two places are.
• gameQuery – a javascript game engine with jQuery – gameQuery is a jQuery plug-in to help make javascript game development easier by adding some simple game-related classes
• SaTScan – Software for the spatial, temporal, and space-time scan statistics – SaTScan™ is a free software that analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics
• neo4j open source nosql graph database » – You can think of Neo4j as a high-performance graph engine with all the features of a mature and robust database. The programmer works with an object-oriented, flexible network structure rather than with strict and static tables — yet enjoys all the benefits of a fully transactional, enterprise-strength database.
• OBLIGE Home – OBLIGE is a random level generator for various classic games, such as DOOM and DOOM II (more coming soon). The goal is to produce high quality levels which are fun to play.

These are my links for February 23rd through March 1st:

• SLADE – It's a map editor – SLADE is a modern, portable map editor for id software's Doom series of games. It also supports the enhanced editing features of some modern source ports, like ZDoom.
• SEC – open source and platform independent event correlation tool – SEC accepts input from regular files, named pipes, and standard input, and can thus be employed as an event correlator for any application that is able to write its output events to a file stream. The SEC configuration is stored in text files as rules, each rule specifying an event matching condition, an action list, and optionally a Boolean expression whose truth value decides whether the rule can be applied at a given moment. Regular expressions, Perl subroutines, etc. are used for defining event matching conditions. SEC can produce output events by executing user-specified shell scripts or programs (e.g., snmptrap or mail), by writing messages to pipes or files, and by various other means.
• Chernoff Faces – In 1973, Herman Chernoff introduced a visualization technique to illustrate trends in multidimensional data. His Chernoff Faces were especially effective because they related the data to facial features, something which we are used to differentiating between. Different data dimensions were mapped to different facial features, for example the face width, the level of the ears, the radius of the ears, the length or curvature of the mouth, the length of the nose, etc.
• Speed up your Rails XML responses | Rails on the Run –
• Comparing MongoDB and Redis, Part 1 « While I Pondered… –

These are my links for February 16th through February 19th:

• Seasonally Adjusting Data – DataBasics – FRB Dallas – Most statisticians, economists and government agencies that report data use a method called the X12 procedure to adjust data for seasonal patterns. The X12 procedure and its predecessor X11, which is still widely used, were developed by the U.S. Census Bureau. [1] When applied to a data series, the X12 process first estimates effects that occur in the same month every year with similar magnitude and direction. These estimates are the “seasonal” components of the data series. In addition, the procedure estimates the “trend-cycle” and “irregular” components. The trend-cycle component is the series' long-term tendency to grow or decline and can fluctuate because of the economic trends or other long-term cyclical factors. The irregular component comes from unseasonable weather, natural disasters, strikes or sampling error. The goal of the seasonal adjustment procedure is to separate out the seasonal component, leaving the trend-cycle and irregular components.
• ruby-protobuf – Project Hosting on Google Code – Protocol Buffers for Ruby.
• Protocol Buffers and Hadoop at Twitter – How Twitter uses Hadoop and Protocol Buffers for efficient, flexible data storage and fast MapReduce/Pig jobs.
• LivingStoryFormat – living-stories – An introduction to the core principles and best practices of the living story format. – Project Hosting on Google Code – Living Stories are a new format for presenting and consuming online news. The basic idea of a living story is to combine all of the news coverage on a running story on a single page. Every day, instead of writing a new article on the story that sits at a new URL and contains some new developments and some old background, a living story resides at a permanent URL, that is updated regularly with new developments. This makes it easier for readers to get the latest updates on the stories that interest them, as well as to review deeper background materials that are relevant for a story's context.
• brianmario's yajl-ruby at master – GitHub – This gem is a C binding to the excellent YAJL JSON parsing and generation library.
• File: README [Rainbows! Unicorn for sleepy apps and slow clients] – Rainbows! is an HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on Unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long request/response times and/or slow clients. For Rack applications not heavily bound by slow external network dependencies, consider Unicorn instead as it simpler and easier to debug.
• Fork JavaScript – Fork is a general purpose, namespaced JavaScript library with Ajax, Events, DOM manipulation. There are a few bonus lines of code specifically for use with Ruby on Rails but Fork can be happily used outside of Rails also.

These are my links for February 12th through February 13th:

• Henry Ford & Event Driven Architecture – igvita.com – Talking about architecture, as with most things in the computer industry, often requires deciphering a soup of three or four letter acronyms (XML, API, SOAP), all of which can often be described in much simpler terms. Working on a presentation on "Event Driven Architecture" for MeshU, I was struck how we've managed to obscure such a simple and familiar concept into something that few developers can understand: it's an assembly line!
• To AMQP or to XMPP, that is the question | Open Sourcery –
• sprsquish's blather at master – GitHub – XMPP DSL (and more) for Ruby written on EventMachine and Nokogiri.
• kennethkalmer's ratpack at master – GitHub – Ratpack is a small Sinatra-based HTTP to XMPP/AMQP/SMTP bridge, allowing you to send messages in a RESTful fashion.
• russell davies: widgety goodness 1 – intro and desire – This, of course, runs counter to the conventional online advertising dream that when everyone's empowered with perfect information and sharing everything with their community then all the branding con-artists will be out of a job. Or more likely they'll be lined up against the SuperWall and shot, just after the PR people and Andrew Keen. But I'm think that's one of those techno-utopian singularities that won't come to pass. There's this notion that attaching imagery, ideas and stories to a product is somehow a trick and that once we're all sufficiently melded with our technology we'll awaken from our idiocy and only buy things based on the material cost of goods. Or something. Anyway. I don't think we live in that rational a world. People like buying things that embody ideas wrapped around a physical product, and that they'll pay extra for that. And that that's fun and good.
• Tag Maps – Generating Summaries and Visualization for Large Collections of Geo-referenced Photographs
• MetaSkills.net Synchronizing Core Data With Rails (3.0.0.pre) – Lessons learned from building HomeMarks native iPhone application to synchronize Core Data with a RESTful backend built using rails 3.0.0.pre. This covers a previous design methodology called the AJAX head pattern which decouples rails applications from the views they present which allowed an easy API foundation for the iPhone application and data sync methods.

These are my links for February 10th through February 12th:

• xeerkat – Project Hosting on Google Code – Xeerkat is a P2P computing framework that utilizes XMPP as a communication protocol. The basic model is that of a agent computing where an agent runs a number of services that available to peers. Each service is available over both HTTP and XMPP.
• mojodna's mars at master – GitHub – Mars is a sample Rails application that maps resources to XMPP PubSub nodes rather than HTTP URLs.
• Timeline – On this page I present a tentative timeline presenting some important dates in the history of adventure games. This is still very much a work in progress, so any feedback is appreciated.
• Plupload – A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus – The developers of TinyMCE brings you Plupload, a highly usable upload handler for your Content Management Systems or similar. Plupload is currently separated into a Core API and a jQuery upload queue widget this enables you to either use it out of the box or write your own custom implementation.
• Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up | Geek Gestalt – CNET News –

These are my links for January 18th through January 29th:

• Facebook Connect Tutorial –
• Social Comments – Facebook Developer Wiki – With Social Comments, users bring their real identities into these conversations and can share their thoughts with their friends on your site and on Facebook. On Facebook, their comments will be discovered by other friends, the conversation will continue, and then more users are driven back to your site to view the content and engage in the public conversation.
• Shape of State Library of Queensland wi-fi on Vimeo –
• cityofsound: The street as platform –
• YouTube - Piano stairs – TheFunTheory.com – Rolighetsteorin.se –
• YouTube - Nearest Tube Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS from acrossair –