Cloud at Cost is a new company offering very low cost virtual servers. For their first 10,000 nodes, they’re offering a $35 one time setup fee to get a virtual server for life (of the company). There are additional $70 and $140 one time plans for slightly larger virtual servers, or the option for $1, $2 or $4 per month. I decided to give one of these virtual server plans a try. There were quite a few hickups. I wouldn’t say they’re production ready quite yet, but if you want a server to play around with, the price is right, and their services are certainly worth that price.
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Unfriendfinder was a Firefox plugin which allowed Facebook users to detect when people left their friend list or deactivated their accounts. After three years of development, Facebook requested the removal of the extension due to violation of their terms of service. The author chose not to fight the request. In response, I’ve created sumfriender, a Python script that can detect friend list changes as well as import previous friend lists from the Unfriendfinder Firefox plugin and grease monkey scripts.
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Alfresco is an enterprise document management system. There is a free Community Edition that is open source, but its web interface pulls in an image from their official website that can be used to remotely track usage. This tracking image is added via Javascript and cannot be removed by simply changing a template. It is hard coded into a core class. This tutorial goes through the steps needed to patch the Alfresco WAR file in order to remove the tracking image. It has been tested for Alfresco 4.2c and may need to be adjusted for other versions.
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The first release of dyject is now out. Dyject is a simple dependency injection module for both Python 2 and Python 3. It had no dependencies outside of the standard Python library and uses a configuration parser to construct and wire objects. You can download packages from pypi, get the source code from githib or view the full instructions and documentation on dyject.com
I first saw Blues dancing in its modern form in 2005 at the Windy City Lindy Exchance in Chicago. Lindy Hop, a form of Swing dancing, started to reemerge in the late 1990s, partially due to the GAP advertisements featuring Swing Era dances that aired in 1998. Modern Swing was in the process of rediscovering itself as dance instructors were watching classic movies to rediscover and teach Lindy Hop.
Many DJs found that much of the danceable music from that era was intermixed in their collections with Blues. In the late nights between social dancing and classes, swing dancers were rediscovering Blues music. Unlike Lindy Hop which rediscovered an existing dance that had faded but had not truly died, modern Blues dancing is an amalgamation of both original, non-structured movement with many borrowed steps and stylings from Swing and other Jazz dances.
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