Riak

I stumbled across Riak while searching for an error in the Node.js debugger. Apparently it uses Link Walking. This is interesting because it looks like Linked Data, but I'm not sure it is. Maybe it is. But it isn't a graph database like Neo4j. Does it have to be?

See comparisons: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/references/appendices/comparisons/

Interestingly, they also linked to Web Linking: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-link-header-10

Node.js Book

Yes! I found TJ's Mastering Node book when looking for How to exit in Node.JS. It looks pretty good, so I am bookmarking it in my blog. Also see the official site at nodejs.org.

Books from the Library - 3-14-2013

Ed. Elliot R. Robinson and James M. Harvey, The Engineering Uses of Holography, Cambridge University Press, 1970 Joel Scambray, Mike Shema, and Caleb Shema, Hacking Web Applications Exposed, 2nd Ed., Mc-Graw Hill

Books from the Library (March 5, 2013)

Barrie Sandusky, Networking Bible, Wiley, 2009 (idea: read this to fit in with network security people) Peter Seibel, Coders a Work : Reflectons on the Craft of Programming, Apress, 2009 (idea: read this to find out what you don't know) Susan Wise Baker, The Well - Educated Mind : A Guide ot the Classical Education You Never Had, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, NY, 2003 (idea: read this for better discussions)

This is really sad

I was looking at the Maxima manual, and I had a "I wonder what this does" moment. It had to deal with Hilbert Maps, which may be found on Sourceforge at: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_54.html#SEC268. After I put in the two commands: (%i1) load(fractals)$ (%i2) plot2d([discrete,hilbertmap(6)])$ into xMaxima I obtained this: I was still not satisfied, so I did a quick Google search for Hilbert Maps. I clicked on one of the resulting images, and wound up here: http://www.team-cymru.org/Monitoring/Malevolence/maps.html. This was all nice and good, but I wanted to know what Wikipedia said as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve).This also led me to R-trees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-tree) which remind me of network visualization, and Gray Codes which make me think of Minecraft. I performed a Google search for Hilbert Maps + Minecraft, and then a search for Minecraft + Gray Codes. This Youtube video by Neumann Gregor was an interesting result (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ebK-qvAlk). Team Cymru also led me to xkcd, where I found a wonderful circuit diagram: as well as a map of the IP4 space of the Internet: Team Cymru was great because they also linked to The Measurement Factory at http://www.measurement-factory.com/. While there, I was interested in what CAIDA was. From the link (http://www.caida.org/home/), it turns out they are all about Internet Data Analysis.

Books from the Library Returned (12/21/2012)

Smith, Roderick W., Advanced Linux Networking, Addisom-Wesley, 2002
Man, Ian., Hacking the Human: Social Engineering Techniques and Security Countermeasures, Gower, 2008
Gloor, Peter A., Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks, Oxford University Press, 2006 *Note: I appreciate the thought that Peter put into this book. Fig 1.1 was especially revealing. His examples and analysis of the groups were also good.
Liebowitz, Jay. Knowledge Management: Learning from Knowledge Engineering, CRC Press, 2001 *Note: this is a very comprehensive and good book. It gives tips on Knowledge Engineering.

The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is Something Worth Mastering

This is a comprehensive guide to bash scripting by thegrendel. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/ It also claims to be helpful if you want to be a system administrator.