While browsing the web for for good videos to help me land a cool job at high profile tech firm, I came across this series from an Indian university. Lecture – 16 Disk Based Data Structures You should be…
It’s a simple question Can you search for images by sketching a similar image? I went looking online for a search engine that had implemented this feature, which I’ll call image-search-by-sketching. Update: Since I wrote this piece, GaZoPa no longer…
This is a post in my technology archaeology series. What is search by sketching? The idea is to search for images by drawing a sketch that roughly resembles what you are looking for. The sketch is your query. This idea…
Big in 2005… Today I’m trying to find out whether BitTorrent + geodata is a “thing”. I have found out that it WAS a thing… in 2005! Just like Coldplay, Gorillaz, Eminem, 50 cents, James Blunt, Green Day… but it…
Actually, this is not about how translate.google.com works. It’s about loading HTML from a random URL, adding some extra Javascript and CSS and redisplaying the page on a different domain. A simple test page I’ve made a simple test web…
General instructions are here: Note: I’m running Snow Leopard (10.6.6 ) 1. Install homebrew Check that you don’t have it already: $ which brew If you don’t have <a href="http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/">homebrew</a> install it from here: E.g. like this: $…
You can use separate SQLite database on different machines as a single virtual database by using the attach command in SQLite. I read about the technique here: For this example let’s use the simplest possible database. A contact database…
1. Download data and software The instructions are fairly generic, so should work for both Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. I wrote them for Windows, but I’ve since then switched to Mac OS X. PostgreSQL+PostGIS I assume that you…
Update: The previous version of this howto was a bit unclear or even erroneous, and some people had problems getting it to work. I have now rewritten it and testet it with SOLR 3.5.0 and jQuery 1.7.1. Making SOLR return…
See below for commands using the Fusion Tables API. Example table is the oldschool message wall public table. Note that examples are shown first without the required url-encoding. Authenticating: Getting the auth token To authenticate you may use the following…