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Dumping A Spreadsheet Of Your Most Recent Tweets - TweetCSV.pl

I am releasing the Perl script I run to dump a spreadsheet of my most recent tweets, Contacts.pl, as an open source project, under the Artistic License. This is the same license that Perl uses. I’ve been using this script or variations of it since before the Haiti earthquake, so it’s [...]

Collecting Historical Twitter Data For A Topic - TopicTweetHistory.pl

I am releasing the Perl script I run to collect historical Twitter data for a topic, TopicTweetHistory.pl, as an open source project, under the Artistic License. This is the same license that Perl uses. I’ve been using this script or variations of it since before the Haiti earthquake, so it’s pretty well tested.

The master repository [...]

Collecting Twitter Data After An Event - GeoTweetHistory.pl

I am releasing the Perl script I run to collect Twitter data after an event, GeoTweetHistory.pl, as an open source project, under the Artistic License. This is the same license that Perl uses. I’ve been using this script or variations of it since before the Haiti earthquake, so it’s pretty well tested.

The master repository is [...]

I Go With MeeGo!

Only time will tell what the market impact of the formation of MeeGo from the merger of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin projects will be. But for the moment, it clearly appeals to me as a developer far more than the iPhone or Android platforms have.  So I have joined the MeeGo site – look [...]

Linux Capacity Planning

Modeling Tools

PDQ
PRISM

Linux Server Profiling Tools

oprofile
systemtap
blktrace
seekwatcher

Load Testing Tools

Apache JMeter

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Linux Server Profiling: Using Open Source Tools For Bottleneck Analysis

This tutorial covers profiling of Linux servers using open-source tools such as “iostat”, “oprofile” and “blktrace”. Both processor-bound and I/O-bound cases are covered, and the emphasis is on tools that provide visual displays of relevant metrics.

Linux Server Profiling: Using Open Source Tools For Bottleneck Analysis

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

Media Inactivist, Thought Follower, Sit-Down Comic, Social Media Analytics Researcher,  Former Boy Genius, Linux Capacity Planner, R Hacker, Mathematician

“M. Edward (Ed) Borasky is, in order of appearance, a boy genius, computer programmer, applied mathematician, folk singer, actor, professional graduate student, armchair astronaut, algorithmic composer, supercomputer programmer, performance engineer, Linux geek, solution in search of a [...]

The geese are migrating, and so have I – Part Deux

Actually, now that I think about it, the birds in the PDX area don’t fly South for the winter. If the weather gets really bad, they just get a motel on the Oregon Coast. But seriously, folks, as you may know, I had four WordPress blogs, a Blogger blog, a Posterous blog and also have [...]

Getting Started with the R Programming Language

The R programming language was featured about a year ago in a New York Times article (http://bit.ly/iaqQ). I’ve been an R user since 2000, so I’ve collected some resources for people who want to get started with R.

The first place to start is the R Project web site at http://www.r-project.org/. Next, you’ll actually want to [...]

Getting Started With Linux - the openSUSE Education Li-f-e Live DVD

I recently wrote two articles on getting started with Linux, featuring the openSUSE Education Linux for Education (Li-f-e) Live DVD. The first is called Best Linux software for new users, and the second is called The best Linux games for kids. Both are now available on the DownloadSquad blog. Comments are enabled on the DownloadSquad [...]