The Latinum Vault
I know, I know. If you’re reading this blog you’re probably already invested in diverse books. But even though you’re no doubt the most outspoken advocate for diversity in children’s books, I bet you might know someone in your school or community who needs a little convincing of the benefits of choosing… Read more“5 Reasons Why You Should Read a Diverse Book for Your Next Community Read”
“A single thread can change everything.” This is what Violet Speedwell learns when she joins the team of broderers at Winchester Cathedral in the 1930s. Violet is one of the so-called ‘surplus women’, which was the rather unpleasant, unfeeling term used to describe the many women who found themselves out-numbering men… Read more“A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier”
Today, the Internet offers many ways to make money, but not all of them are simple. In order to make good money in online casinos you need to understand the specifics of gambling, to understand which sites are the most profitable and to know many other nuances. But few succeed,… Read more“How to trick online casinos – analysis of fraud and the only possible working scheme”
The SpringerLink pdf manipulation scripts are now up on github. You can get them at I am slowly moving most of the public projects and code over to github so that people can use it and change it more effectively.
My last twitter was “ Well now its time to blog about it. And share some code…won’t that be fun? So I’ve always wanted to do some distributed programming or parallel programming(technically not the same, but aim at solving similar problems), but the barrier of entry was always too high… Read more“Working with Hadoop”
The TaskIt application aims to help you in your Getting things Done(GTD) approach and thus provides a task list or a ToDo list. When you organize your thoughts and put them down in your TaskIt list, you will get a much better view of your tasks. This is a Work… Read more“Project: TaskIt”
Although I tackled some questions over email about it, I only experimented with hadoop a few times. Not professionally
When working as part of a team on a Django project, it is often useful to have a per-host settings file. There are many ways to do this but the approach that I liked most is creating a local_settings.py file in each environment. I’m often the only programmer on web… Read more“”
A couple of months ago, we started working on a project, code named firemote, to help in the detection and prevention of forest fires in Lebanon. I didn’t say anything about it because i was waiting for it to be announced, and the announcement was finally done a few days… Read more“Firemote project is finally public”
Upgrading an older project to Django 1.4 So many little changes that make development with it oh-so-sweeter