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Parsing CSV data in Scala with opencsv 28 Jul 2011 | 08:42 pm
One of the great things about Scala (or any JVM language for that matter) is that you can take advantage of lots of libraries in the Java ecosystem. Today I wanted to parse a CSV file with Scala, and ...
Social Graph Analysis using Elastic MapReduce and PyPy 4 May 2011 | 10:09 pm
A couple of weeks back I read a couple of papers (Who Says What to Whom on Twitter and What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?) that cited data collected by researchers for the latter paper...
Literate Diffing 1 May 2011 | 02:56 pm
The other day I found myself wanting to add commentary to a diff. There are code review tools such as reviewboard and gerrit that make commenting on diffs pretty easy. Github allows you to comment on ...
PyPy is Fast (And So Can You) 19 Mar 2011 | 12:33 am
I’ve known for some time that PyPy (Python implemented in a subset of the language called RPython) is fast. The PyPy speed charts show just how fast for a lot of benchmarks (and it’s a little slower i...
Getting to know Scala 28 Feb 2011 | 08:47 pm
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been spending some quality time with Scala. I haven’t really been outside of my Python shell (pun only slightly intended) since getting to know node.js several month...
Installing PyLucene on OSX 10.5 12 Feb 2009 | 11:04 am
I was pleasantly surprised at my experience installing PyLucene this morning on my OSX 10.5 laptop. The installation instructions worked perfectly without a hiccup. This may not be impressive if you’v...
Sphinx Search with PostgreSQL 7 Feb 2009 | 05:03 pm
While I don’t plan on moving away from Apache Solr for my searching needs any time soon, Jeremy Zawodny’s post on Sphinx at craigslist made me want to take a closer look. Sphinx works with MySQL, Post...
Kansas Primary 2008 recap 6 Aug 2008 | 10:31 pm
I’m winding down after a couple of very long days preparing for our coverage of the 2008 Kansas (and local) primaries. As always it’s been an exhausting but rewarding time. We’ve come a long way since...
DjangoCon! 1 Aug 2008 | 06:28 pm
I’m a little late to the announcement party, but I’ll be attending DjangoCon and sitting on a panel about Django in Journalism with Maura Chace and Matt Waite. The panel will be moderated by our own A...
Natalie Anne Croydon 2 Jun 2008 | 01:17 am
Last weekend, our first child, Natalie Anne Croydon was born. I’ve been trying to keep up with Flickr photos and updated my twitter feed a lot during the labor and delivery process (what a geek!). Tha...
