Interesting Snippets from 2012-12-31

• A FreeBSD 9 Desktop How-to - Cooltrainer.org

  FreeBSD is a fast, secure, modern Unix-like operating system with a fantastic community, great documentation, and powerful technologies like ZFS and LLVM. It’s my operating system of choice for everything from my beefy i7-2600k desktop to my home router to my ARM plug computer jukebox.

• HOWTO: FreeBSD ZFS Madness - The FreeBSD Forums

  Some time ago I found a good, reliable way of using and installing FreeBSD and described it in my Modern FreeBSD Install [1] [2] HOWTO. Now, more then a year later I come back with my experiences about that setup and a proposal of newer and probably better way of doing it.

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Interesting Snippets from 2012-12-26

• CourseWiki - CS 448B

  The world is awash with increasing amounts of data, and we must keep afloat with our relatively constant perceptual and cognitive abilities. Visualization provides one means of combating information overload, as a well-designed visual encoding can supplant cognitive calculations with simpler perceptual inferences and improve comprehension, memory, and decision making. Furthermore, visual representations may help engage more diverse audiences in the process of analytic thinking.

  In this course we will study techniques and algorithms for creating effective visualizations based on principles from graphic design, visual art, perceptual psychology, and cognitive science. The course is targeted both towards students interested in using visualization in their own work, as well as students interested in building better visualization tools and systems.

• bitpshr/holler · GitHub

  real-time, in-app notifications for web and mobile via the command line.

• Introduction | Breeze.js

  Breeze is a JavaScript library that helps you manage data in rich client applications. If you store data in a relational database, query and save those data as complex object graphs, and share these graphs across multiple screens of your JavaScript client, Breeze is for you.

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Interesting Snippets from 2012-12-21

• SQL Indexing Tutorial | Use The Index, Luke!

  A free tutorial covering SQL indexing and SQL tuning for developers: unnecessary details about database internals are kept to a minimum. SQL indexing is the most effective SQL tuning method and requires the same care as schema design yet it is often neglected during development. Use The Index, Luke explains SQL indexing from the source code perspective—covering ORM tools like Hibernate and Doctrine.

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Interesting Snippets from 2012-12-20

• Sitespeed.io - Analyze your website speed and performance

  Sitespeed.io is an open source tool that helps you analyze and optimize your website speed and performance based on performance best practices. It will collect data from multiple pages on your website (crawling from a startpoint), analyze the pages using performance best practices rules, and output the result as a couple of HTML-files.

• Performance Calendar » Timing the Web

  The best way however to understand the performance from a user’s perspective is to measure in the actual browser. While this sounds very simple it turns out to rather be a challenge. Creating a waterfall chart like the one below by just using information available in the browser simply is impossible.

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Interesting Snippets from 2012-12-15

• The ICSI Certificate Notary

  Much of the Internet’s end-to-end security relies on the SSL protocol, along with its underlying X.509 certificate infrastructure. However, the system remains quite brittle due to its liberal delegation of signing authority: a single compromised certification authority undermines trust globally. The ICSI Notary helps clients to identify malicious certificates by providing a third-party perspective on what they should expect to receive from a server. While similar in spirit to existing efforts, such as Convergence and the EFF’s SSL observatory, our notary collects certificates passively from live upstream traffic at multiple independent Internet sites, aggregating them into a central database in near-realtime.

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