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Category: Hack

  • Use ifttt to get alerted of new Netflix ‘watch instantly’ Titles

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    I setup my ifttt account based on an article by Jason Cipriani on CNET. Using an RSS feed, you can bring in a lot of other sites and services that aren’t currently available as a channel on ifttt. One example of a service you can bring into ifttt via RSS is Netflix.  Select Feed from…

  • Internet Usage Predictions

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  • How to teach undergrads how to become open source contributors without writing any code

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    Posted 21 Feb 2012 on OpenSource.com by Sebastian Dziallas   This is the story of a college class taught inside an open source community. Last fall, I taught Release Engineering to a small group of undergraduates at Olin College, an engineering school a few miles outside Boston. The goal was to teach them how to…

  • Hacker Typer

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    Hacker Typer was tweeted my direction today.  Located on hackertyper.net but playable on hackertyper.com. I found this article from Hack A Day entertaining and worth the read. Even better is the idea that there is actually a YouTube video explaining how to use it.

  • How To Optimize Your WordPress Database

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    I am looking at a number of WordPress plugins to optimize my databases.  I did run across the WordPress method of optimizing a database. First backup your database. http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/maint/repair.php Click on the Repair Database button to have WordPress internally executes two SQL queries on each WordPress database table: CHECK TABLE and REPAIR TABLE Click on…