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Contents 1 Other 2 About software 2.1 Questions 2.1.1 Why do people choose cryptic names for their command-line programs? 2.2 Ideas to check out 3 Hadoop 4 Links 4.1 Good blogs 5 Data storage options 5.1 Text files 5.2 More information 6 Instances of software 6.1 Voice recognition 6.2 Blogging software 6.3 Timeline generation 6.4 Logic 6.5 My shared scripts/software 6.5.1 private 6.6 Screencasts 6.7 To do

[edit] Other

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[edit] About software

[edit] Questions

[edit] Why do people choose cryptic names for their command-line programs?

Sure it's faster to type... but it's nearly impossible sometimes to guess what the program does without running it! It would be nice if at least you had some idea what the program was just by looking at the name... is that so much to ask?? Let people make their own short aliases if the default (long) names are too long for them (i.e., they use the command a lot).

Examples:

http://extensions.rubyforge.org/rdoc/index.html:

you can run the command rbxtm ("Ruby Extension Methods") to get a list of the methods implemented by this project

[edit] Ideas to check out

http://code.google.com/soc/ Google Summer of Code

http://code.google.com/ Google Code - Google's Developer Network

[edit] Hadoop

Hadoop is a collection of Free Java software previously developed by the Nutch project but now maintainted by Lucene. The system includes a distributed filesystem reminiscent of GoogleFS named the "Hadoop Distributed File System", a clone of Google MapReduce called "HadoopMapReduce" and a few other miscellaneous pieces of software. The collection is intended to support the Lucene project's search engine by allowing it to be distributed over a network of commodity computers.

It looks like they're trying to provide an open-source response to Google.

[edit] Links

• http://digg.com/software/digg

[edit] Good blogs

• http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/category/ruby/
• http://www.lifehacker.com/software/screencasts/

[edit] Data storage options

[edit] Text files

http://todotxt.com/whytxt.php

[edit] More information

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[edit] Instances of software

[edit] Voice recognition

• Dragon NaturallySpeaking

[edit] Blogging software

• http://redalt.com/wiki/Blog+Software+Breakdown | http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm
• http://wordpress.org/

[edit] Timeline generation

• http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=timeline&type_of_search=soft
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:EasyTimeline_syntax

[edit] Logic

• PowerLoom™ Knowledge Representation & Reasoning System

[edit] My shared scripts/software

http://svn.tylerrick.com/library/ book library

http://svn.tylerrick.com/rails_shared/ Rails shared code

http://svn.tylerrick.com/windows/

[edit] private

http://svn.tylerrick.com/shell/ Shell scripts/config

http://svn.tylerrick.com/vim/ vim scripts

[edit] Screencasts

• http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ -- "Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software. Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users." Save as Flash file.

[edit] To do

Import from:

• open source project list I started
• my directory structure: E:\Programs

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