That’s a whole lot of Gr8ness in the title, don’t you think? Ok, ok – I apologize for the pun. I whipped these up using the open source Gource visualization software and with HD content free on Youtube now, I just had to try that out too. Gource Gource is a software version control visualization [...]
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Concurrent Versions System,
git,
git-svn,
Google,
Grails,
Griffon,
Groovy,
MacPorts,
Mercurial,
Open source,
Revision control,
Subversion,
SVN,
theKaptain
I read an interesting article recently about using python and open source software to defeat a particular captcha implementation and I set out to see how hard it would be to do the same in Groovy. In particular, coming from the Java side of the fence, I was impressed by how the available libraries in [...]
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Application programming interface,
Graphics,
Groovy,
Java,
Java2D,
maven,
Open source,
Programming,
Python,
Source code,
tesseract-ocr,
theKaptain
Do you make keeping up with technology a priority? Have you found a way to prevent drowning in the vast sea of content AND still keep abreast of everything you want to? Me neither, but here’s where I go to learn new things, find solutions and keep up with the general state of the union [...]
31 Mar, 2009
Posted by: TheKaptain In: Cool Toys
I blogged awhile back about the WordPress iPhone app, and how the tiny portrait keyboard was just killing me. Well they’ve gone ahead and added a landscape mode and it is just GREAT! I look forward to drafting posts on it when the inspiration strikes. A couple of minor hiccups, however. Upgrading the previous install [...]
28 Mar, 2009
Posted by: TheKaptain In: Cool Toys
I work for a company that develops bioinformatics solutions, so when I came across BioLinux I just had to check it out. An Ubuntu 8.0.4 distro loaded with more than 500 tools for analysis, including sample data and comprehensive documentation to get you started. There was an available virtual machine image at the bagvapp virtual [...]
