Author: Dan

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. Version 2.0 introduces a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases like Freebase, and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions.

via Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers – Google Open Source Blog.

Python progression path – From apprentice to guru – Stack Overflow.

6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

via MIT OpenCourseWare | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008 | Home.

This is things to do – my training is entirely to hackerly. Some structure might be nice.

In this tutorial you will learn how to build a PHP script that scrapes links from any web page.

via Scraping Links With PHP.

& – bitwise and
| – bitwise or
^ – bitwise xor
~ – bitwise not
<< – bitwise shift left
>> – bitwise shift right

via Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know – good coders code, great reuse.