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Adobe Flex and Custom Namespace / manifest.xml

Create a file "manifest.xml" and add the following: <?xml version="1.0"?> <?componentpackage> <?!-- URI http://vizsage.com/vzg namespace gg package com. vizsage --> <component...

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Emacs modes for Flex

Emacs modes for Flex:XML: nXML-mode for Emacs from James ClarkUsing Emacs for XML documentsActionscript: actionscript-mode.el for editing actionscript files in emacs. At least right now it seems you...

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Flex Demo: Matrix Math (and an error in the Actionscript docs)

I'm working on something that uses (an algorithm similar to) texture mapping, for which I want to precalculate the .invert() of a whole bunch of .transform.matrix objects. I'll post something about...

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How to make a patch using diff

I always forget the command to use, and google is strangely devoid of helpful/correct advice. Therefore I'm posting this for my own and future generations' reference. How to Generate a Patch from...

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Patches to the AS3 Cookbook Code

The Actionscript 3 Cookbook is a very helpful reference, and the example code that came with it has many good examples. Unfortunately there's a modicum of bitrot in the code: compiler warnings and...

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Subway Geography and Geometry

I've written an applet that lets you reimagine the geography of greater Washington, DC area with "distance" measured by subway-travel-time, measured by subway-travel-cost, or as the standard clarified...

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as3mathlib (formerly WIS math libraries)

I've just imported the WIS mathematics library -- an excellent collection of mathematics routines -- onto Google Code. (You'll find the Actionscript 2 version of the library at its original site)This...

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Rules of thumb for Rack Leave in Scrabble

This isn't exactly within the ambit of this blog but at least it's about data. While I should have been doing work, I instead made an awesome spreadsheet to find rules of thumb for what the best...

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Retrosheet Eventfile Inconsistencies

Here are a few inconsistent records in the retrosheet.org event files of 2007 Sep 23. I'm using chadwick and not the retrosheet DOS utils, but I think I've source all these to the original event files....

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The Asdrubal Carrera Hall of Fame

Inspired by one of Tim McCarver's flights of fancy during the ALCS, I present The Asdrubal Carrera Hall of Fame, open to anyone in unique possession of a particular first name among Major League...

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Retrosheet Eventfile Inconsistencies II

I've found a few more inconsistencies and minor inaccuracies in the retrosheet event files and game logs. I made a diff (applied using the 'patch' tool) to mechanically recreate these corrections:...

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Hourly Weather data for each Retrosheet game

I noticed some suspect entries for game conditions in the eventfiles and realized I could not only fix it but add a pretty useful dimension to the retrosheet collection. The National Climate Data...

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Moving from Perl to Python with XML and Templating

Mr. XKCD is correct in this. (My friend Dr. Larsson has been saying this all along). As I'm moving from data munging to data working-with, I've been moving from perl to python. Recommended:lxml is a...

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Leveraging the Bittorrent Underground for semantic data and media

I just ran across a pretty interesting site called coverbrowser.com, which uses a variety of image APIs to pull in comic book, game, book, music, movie and other cover art. (Read the technical details...

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Old-School Shop Guide

ShopGuideFront300dpi.pngI rediscovered this super-compact reference-and-tool-and-measuring device while looking for a tool. It is jam-packed with handy information for anyone doing things mechanical or...

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Time Machine is neat-o, but I want a Time and Space Machine for my files

I've long wished for a versioned home directory, but the svn/ish seem too heavyweight, and it's nice to have a live copy and not an opaque DB-ball. The right answer the stunningly elegant Time Machine....

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50 years of Baseball Play-by-play data mashed with 50 years of hourly weather...

Note: I found this sitting in my drafts folder, unpublished. It actually dates from October.I've had two interesting realizations from the Retrosheet Baseball data vs. Hourly Weather information mashup...

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Owning my Metadata

Dear Lazyweb, I'd like someone to invent a 'Metadata reclaimer': a program to screenscrape all my amazon ratings, flickr tags, facebook posts, etc. I try, as far as possible, to only use apps that let...

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Reference Cards

Here are some pretty reference cards I made a while back:Scale Landmarks: What's something you're familiar with that is about 10 nm big? How do the speed of continental drift, a raindrop, a champion...

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More things I wish someone else will write

More random software ideas:Google search, restricted to find bug reports only. You'd crawl usenet, sourceforge/google code, debian etc. build farms, open issue trackers, mailing list archives and...

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