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Netflix Prize Within 0.5%

By barneyb on December 29, 2008

I was looking at the leaderboard for the Netflix Prize while waiting for a huge DB transform to complete, and saw that as of last week, BellKor/BigChaos are within half a percentage point of the required 10% improvement to win.  Yay those guys!

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Dooce Got …Dooced? …Again?

By barneyb on October 2, 2007

Getting Slashdotted is a thing of the past, now you can get Dooced: post an entry that causes your feed subscribers to actually visit the site itself, and overwhelm your server.  Note this is definition two for 'dooced', the first being "to have posted work-related things on your personal blog and get fired for it."

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Scott Adams on Iran

By barneyb on September 24, 2007

Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) posted a very nice piece on Iran (specifically President Ahmadinejad) on his blog.  Definitely worth a read.

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Flex3 Apache Module glibc Gotcha

By barneyb on August 31, 2007

I went to install the Flex3 Apache compiler module on my server today, and it supports glibc 2.4 and higher only, which means no RedHat 4 (or derivatives).  So no Flex server compilation for me, since there doesn't seem to be source anywhere to compile against glibc 2.3.

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Flash 9.0.48 for Linux

By barneyb on July 11, 2007

Adobe has released Flash Player 9.0.48 for Linux, and my bicycle dashboard seems to work now, which is good news, since that app was undoubtedly not the only one affected.  If you're on Linux, go get it! LustPage

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Interesting Directions

By barneyb on April 4, 2007

I accidentally fat fingered an address in Google Maps and got this set of directions.  Pay particular attention to segment 16.

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Chris Phillips is Blogging

By barneyb on April 1, 2007

Chris Phillips (another Portland CFer) is finally blogging, which is good, because we need more tall skinny guys in the blogosphere.

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I was Interviewed!

By barneyb on March 30, 2007

cfframeworks.com did an interview with me last month on (surprise) ColdFusion frameworks, and they've just published it.

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Great Video

By barneyb on February 23, 2007

Not work safe (unless you've got headphones), but a great video none the less.  Very creative.

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cf.objective 2007 Session Listing

By barneyb on February 23, 2007

Jared has posted a partial cf.objective 2007 session listing on the conference site.

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