Archive for July, 2009

Data.gov – best place to get federal raw data

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

So I was reading the latest issue of Wired magazine and came upon an article they wrote about data.gov. A new government web site that provides raw data from multiple government agencies. The data is provided in many formats including, SHP, KML, XML and CSV.
If you have not visited the site, I recommend you visit. [...]

Add Twitter feeds to your web site using Simple XML

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Add Twitter feeds to your web site using Simple XML: see example
//Simply add this section of the code somewhere on top of the page –>//

<?php

function twitter_status($twitter_id, $hyperlinks = true) {

$c = curl_init();

curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, “http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$twitter_id.xml”);

curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);

curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);

$response = curl_exec($c);

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Cloud Computing – Sun Microsystems

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Cloud Computing white paper from Sun Microsystems
Cloud computing promises to increase the velocity with which applications are deployed, increase innovation,
and lower costs, all while increasing business agility. Sun takes an inclusive view of cloud computing that
allows it to support every facet, including the server, storage, network, and virtualization technology that drives
cloud computing environments to the [...]