Vacations and GECCO were great. I am still trying to catch up. Hope everything gets up to speed soon. Just a quick note to jump start: Dealing with relational databases, metadata stores, DAV servers? If so, take a look at Virtuoso, you won’t be disappointed ;)
Seapine {Labs}::HTML to Wiki Converter is an online converter of HTML formated code into a Wiki (MediaWiki) sintax. Very convenient if you want to add already formated material.
I needed to reset the password for a user on a MediaWiki site. Luckily, I run into this post “Reset a user password on MediaWiki - Greg’s Postgres stuff” which helps you to do so. The five-cent summary for a MySQL powered site: UPDATE user SET user_password = md5(CONCAT('123-',md5('newpassword'))) WHERE user_id=123;
Sometimes you may need to sample a dataset. You may want to get a uniformly sampled subset out of a datatset stored in a file. The perlscript below does the job for you. if ( $#ARGV!=1 ) { print "Wrong number of arguments\\n\\t". "uniform-sampler.pl <file> <sample_proportion>\\n"; } else { srand(); open(FILE,$ARGV[0]) or die "File $ARGV[0] could not be open"; while($line=<FILE>) { if ( rand()<$ARGV[1] ) { print $line; } } close FILE; } 1;
The package e1071 for R is an interesting add on to your list of R packages. It includes functions for latent class analysis, short time Fourier transform, fuzzy clustering, support vector machines, shortest path computation, bagged clustering, naive Bayes classifier, independent component analysis, and more.