Archive for March, 2009

Mini Searches with Answers

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Programming from the Ground Up Book – Summary [Savannah]
Good introduction to programming in x86 assembly language

How to enable and use the “Run As” command when running programs in Windows
Useful if you want to test programs that require certain permissions.

Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You
We processed 1,024,908,267,229 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,176,470,663 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times. There are 13,588,391 unique words, after discarding words that appear less than 200 times.

Introducing JSON Template
I'd like to try using this as a templating engine in Javascript in my next AJAX project since I'm under the belief that the MVC model breaks down on AJAX heavy sites.

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Mini Searches with Answers

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Human Space Flight (HSF) – Sightings
When to view the ISS from Columbia Maryland – it will be the second brightest object in the sky soon.

SIMILE Widgets
Cool visualizations for things like timelines

How to embed video in your website – Rails Forum – Ruby on Rails Help and Discussion Forum
So how do we create Flash video and put it on our website without spending hundreds of dollars? The following tutorial shows how to do it. first assumes you have Windows XP and are using Windows Movie Maker plus other third part application.

sevenup – Google Code
Help rid the world of IE6 with one line of javascript!

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Can UPC Barcodes be Inverted?

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

I was wondering if the black and white parts of a UPCA barcode can be reversed. I couldn’t find any references online saying one way or the other, but I saw a ShopRite loyalty card today with just that situation, and my barcode scanner correctly read it, so empirically I would say yes, UPC barcodes can have their colors inverted

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Mini Searches with Answers

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Actual documentation for the JQuery autocomplete plugin. How to turn off caching, etc.
They should really update the JQuery documentation page with this.

This at least referes to the plugin I'm using:
* Autocomplete – jQuery plugin 1.0.2
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* Copyright (c) 2007 Dylan Verheul, Dan G. Switzer, Anjesh Tuladhar, Jörn Zaefferer
* Revision: $Id: jquery.autocomplete.js 5747 2008-06-25 18:30:55Z joern.zaefferer $

Can a congressman be sued for slander on the house or senate floor?
No, see article I section 6: "and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place. "

Python Package Index : bbfreeze 0.95.4
This may be easier to use than py2exe, and it claims it makes just a single file. It also claims to run on both Linux and windows. Yay!

COUNT(*) vs COUNT(col) | MySQL Performance Blog
Does the MySQL count function ignore nulls? Yes it does when you do count(col).

James Marshall’s Home Page
Useful, easy to understand tutorials on HTTP, CGI, etc.

YouTube – Ford Ranger Side Mirror Replacement
How to replace a side mirror on a 1997 Ford Ranger

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