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I’ve developed a method of integrating Google Analytics which allows the user/client to regain control over the loading and execution while not blocking other JavaScript code on the page from executing. This method requires either YUI or jQuery to be present but can be adapted to work with other JavaScript libraries.

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How to tame the "Swiss army knife" of audio and video manipulation…

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ffmpeg is a multiplatform, open-source library for video and audio files. I have compiled 19 useful and amazing commands covering almost all needs: video conversion, sound extraction, encoding file for iPod or PSP, and more.

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Here’s a recipe for using Nutch to crawl some site(s) and extract out the images.

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Paperclip is a plugin for Ruby on Rails’ ActiveRecord that lets files work as simply as any other attributes do. There are no extra database tables, only one library to install for image processing, and the ease of being able to refer to your files as easily as you refer to your other attributes.

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Web 2.0 applications are best known for providing a rich user experience, but the parts you can't see are just as important—and impressive. Many Web 2.0 applications use powerful techniques to process information intelligently and offer features based on patterns and relationships in the data that couldn't be discovered manually. Successful examples of these Algorithms of the Intelligent Web include household names like Google Ad Sense, Netflix, and Amazon. These applications use the internet as a platform that not only gathers data at an ever-increasing pace but also systematically transforms the raw data into actionable information.

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This is a simple API to access Amazon's SQS, EC2, SimpleDB and DevPay LS web services.

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Mixxx is free, open source DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.

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BirdEye is a community project to advance the design and development of a comprehensive open source information visualization and visual analytics library for Adobe Flex.

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We are a global engineering and consulting firm specializing in extreme performance and scalability of applications, web sites and network systems.

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This blogpost presents the report on recently concluded scalability benchmark of Monte Carlo simulations running on Amazon EC2 using the GridGain framework.

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"repcached" is patch set which adds data replication feature to memcached 1.2.x.

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