• Extension:Syntax Highlighting - MediaWiki
  Mediawiki extension for syntax highlighting for source code
  (tags: mediawiki Wiki)
• Textile Markup with MediaWiki
  requires AlternateSyntaxParser extension in mediawiki
  (tags: textile mediawiki)

Because some WeoGeo Market users reported that they were not receiving email notifications, we had a need for User Testing across a variety of email platforms. Enter Mechanical Turk:

We created a 6 question survey focused on our registration and email validation process and offered 2 cents per completed survey. After only 3 batches of 6 surveys (18 total for a whopping 36 cents!) we identified and confirmed problems with AOL, MSN Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail blacklisting IPs owned by EC2. Other EC2 users had reported similar problems which quickly led us to a solution.

The average time from release to completion for all of the surveys was about 45 minutes and the quality of the responses is very good. No corners were cut by the Automatons. This has been such a success that we will look to make more tests focused on other aspects of our web site.

How to configure WordPress Mu with Google Blog Search Pinging Service

By default, WordPress Mu pings Ping-o-Matic only and it is no longer possible to add new sites with the wp-admin interface: “Sites get pinged by default. That option [to add other Pinging Services] was removed to simplify the interface.” (donncha)

Thus, adding a new Pinging Service (in this case Google Blog Search Pinging Service) requires an update to the *_options table for each blog. Richard Pendergast clearly shows how to do this over on the DevLounge.

For example,

mysql> SELECT option_value
FROM [secret]_2_options
WHERE option_name = "ping_sites";
+----------------------------+
| option_value |
+----------------------------+
| http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ |
+----------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> UPDATE [secret]_2_options
SET option_value = "http://rpc.pingomatic.com/\nhttp://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2/"
WHERE option_name = "ping_sites";
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1 Changed: 1 Warnings: 0
mysql> SELCT option_value FROM [secret]_2_options WHERE option_name = "ping_sites";
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| option_value |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2/ |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

• Making Things Talk | O’Reilly Media
  teaches you how to get your creations to communicate with one another by forming networks of smart devices
  (tags: toRead toBuy boos make)
• An Atlas of Radical Cartography
  a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration.
  (tags: toRead toBuy)
• 4 Openlayers customization - GeoServer
  tutorial…to make a simple mapping application with an OpenLayers front end.
  (tags: openlayers vector)
• Vector Formats
  Shows the wide variety of vector formats that open layers supports.
  (tags: openlayers vector GeoJSON)
• Interactive Cross-Browser Vector Graphics on Top of SVG, VML, Canvas, Silverlight using Dojo’s GFX - Naxos Software & Technology Blog
  dojo gfx extension supports SVG, VML, Canvas and Silverlight.
  (tags: javascript vector canvas graphics library)
• How To Ping Google Blog Search | BlogCarta.com
  [How to get] Wordpress to automatically ping Google everytime you update your blog
  (tags: blogs wordpress google ping)

• Larry Hall (Cygwin) - Re: Using du.exe to calculate disk usage on a Microsoft cluster server
  find /cygdrive/s -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 du
  (tags: linux bash cygwin find diskUsage du TreeSize)
• Rsync for Windows :: Gaztronics.net
  Rsync for Windows
  (tags: SysAdmin cygwin rsync)

• Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial
  sed -i ’s/find/replace/g’ *.weo
  (tags: sed bash linux reference)
• staffblog » Blog Archive » New Services: Nicknames and Accounts
  confused (and rightly so!) about the new nickname system
  (tags: IRC)
• Aerials Express Datasets on WeoGeo
  Tampa Bay, FL (403 of 403)
  (tags: AEX)
• Scripted Re-Mark - Batch Editor for Bookmarks
  service helps you manage your bookmarks stored on popular social bookmarking site del.icio.us
  (tags: batch del.icio.us tools)
• Ridiculous
  Ridiculous is a simple wrapper for del.icio.us API writing in Ruby.
  (tags: ruby api del.icio.us)
• del.icio.us backup [ruby] [sqlite] [del.icio.us] [backup]
  ruby script dumps all your del.icio.us bookmarks into a sqlite database
  (tags: ruby del.icio.us sqlite)
• Pablotron: Rubilicious
  Delicious bindings for Ruby.
  (tags: ruby del.icio.us)

• Drawing Graphics with Canvas - MDC
  HTML element for programmable graphics
  (tags: ajax canvas javascript tiles)
• Quick HOWTO : Ch21 : Configuring Linux Mail Servers - Linux Home Networking
  (tags: sendmail linux tutorial configure)
• TIP: How send mails by GMail account (Patch for PHPMailer)
  “tls://smtp.gmail.com”.
  (tags: phpbb mail gmail)

• Dr. Dobb’s | Estimating Locations in Photos | June 18, 2008
  computerized method that can analyze a single photograph and determine where in the world the image likely was taken
  (tags: algorithms ComputerScience flickr GPS)
• IM2GPS: estimating geographic information from a single image
  a simple algorithm for estimating a distribution over geographic locations from a single image using a purely data-driven scene matching approach
  (tags: im2gps algorithms geotagging flickr gps)

• Getty Vocabulary Program (Research at the Getty)
  The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)®
  The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing around 912,000 records, including 1.1 million names, place types, coordinates, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and arc
  (tags: metadata vocabulary)
• libkml - Google Code
  a KML library written in C++ with bindings to other languages
  (tags: kml library python code)

• X-Chat 2 for Windows
  unofficial free X-Chat (UNIX IRC client) build for Windows, compiled on Windows XP SP2 with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect C/C++ compiler
  (tags: IRC windows)
• Tiles@home - OpenStreetMap
  Tiles@home (short: T@H or t@h) is a distributed program to render osmarender maps
  (tags: mapserver tiles)
• ChangeDetection - Know when any web page chages
  service to monitor any website page for changes…create[s] a change log for the page and alert[s] you by email.
  (tags: monitoring)