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Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

Install

brew install logrotate

add to .bash_profile

export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/sbin

restart terminal just to check the logrotate command returns something

logrotate -?

make logrotate.d directory inside of /etc/ and add new config file

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

"Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
"Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

Follow these steps to install graphite on OS X Mavericks.

Prerequisites

Homebrew
Python 2.7
Git

Install dependencies

Install Cairo and friends

Approximating the median of a Stream via stochastic averaging

Often it is useful to have access to the median value for fields of a data stream since they are more robust with respect to outliers. The median is defined as the value of a dataset such that, when sorted, 50% of the data is smaller than the value and 50% of the data is larger then the value. Ordinarily this is difficult to calculate on a stream because it requires the collection and sorting of all data.

The median of a data stream can be approximated with a technique called stochastic averaging. To approximate the median value of a data stream one could use the following approach:

Given the current estimate of the median M. If the next observed value in the stream is larger than M, increase the current estimate by r (= the learning rate). If it is smaller, decrease the estimate by r. When M is close to the median, it increases as often as it decreases, and therefore it stabilizes.

This approach was taken from the book "Real-time Analytics -

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You often hear updog saying stuff like this. Who’s updog? Not much, who is up with you?

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	#/_/ \____/_/ /_/ /_/\___/\__,_/\__/ /_/

	# Multi-instance Apache Tomcat installation with a focus
	# on best-practices as defined by Apache, SpringSource, and MuleSoft

	<!DOCTYPE HTML>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
	<title>Bootstrap Masonry Template</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans+Caption:400,700">

	machine:
	node:
	version: 4.1
	pre:
	- sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 g++-4.9
	post:
	- sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.9 50 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.9