Your first day with a new Mac: the get-started guide for Windows users

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Scrapy is a high level scraping and web crawling framework for writing spiders to crawl and parse web pages for all kinds of purposes, from information retrieval to monitoring or testing web sites.

(tags: python web library search crawling crawl script scraping crawler spider)

(tags: ruby web library search http crawling gems hawler crawler)

Newton is a distributed OSGi framework in which the components can be simple POJOs or wrappers around components based on other models.

(tags: framework java distributed opensource osgi soa sca newton jini)

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Felix is a community effort to implement the OSGi R4 Service Platform, which includes the OSGi framework and standard services, as well as providing and supporting other interesting OSGi-related technologies. The ultimate goal is to provide a completely compliant implementation of the OSGi framework and standard services and to support a community around this technology.

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Welcome to the home of Knopflerfish, the leading universal open source OSGi Service Platform.

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Neo4j.rb is a graph database framework for JRuby built on top of the neo4j Java library.

(tags: ruby graph library network neo neo4j)

rPath takes the confusion out of cloud computing with this humorous animation in plain English.

(tags: cloudcomputing cloudify cloud-computing virtualization distributed video ec2 cloud videos)

Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java EE applications on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).

(tags: cloudcomputing scalability framework virtualization java opensource ec2 tools s3 mysql deployment j2ee tomcat)

Glimmer is a JRuby DSL that enables easy and efficient authoring of user-interfaces using the robust platform-independent Eclipse SWT library.

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These tools are for use by developers so that they can create more robust applications. Especially of use to those developing multi-threaded applications in C++ with templates. Includes TCMalloc, heap-checker, heap-profiler and cpu-profiler.

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A Graph Database for JRuby. It uses the java lib neo4j as storage and lucene for quering/indexing

(tags: ruby jruby graph database network lucene db neo neo4j)

The Gnip API provides two major components: change notifications for activities (events), and the full content associated with those activities. Activity examples include a user "notice" (twitter), a user "dugg" (digg), a user creating a blog post, etc. Activity examples can be user generated, or machine generated.

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