FOSS Fridays: OpenSSL in PHP
A Symfony PHP example of using OpenSSL to sign and encrypt user authentication data for transparent single sign-on between LDAP and partner systems.
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Monkeys and shakespeare: genetic algorithms with Jenes
This morning, I decided to see what Wikipedia had to say about monkeys and typewriters and eventually stumbled across an article about the “Weasel program” which Richard Dawkins wrote to demonstrate “random variation and non-random cumulative selection in natural and artificial evolutionary systems.” Basically, it simulates the monkeys on a typewriter to produce a line from Hamlet. At this point, I was hooked – I wanted to make one.
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A hands-on review of AppJet covers server-side JavaScript setup, client and CSS directives, HTML generation, persistent storage, and its data-loading limitation.
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A timelapse map visualizes how 11,021 election-related tweets for Obama and McCain changed across the United States during Election Day 2008.
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A Twitter-based election map used Search API queries, heuristics, geolocation, and unique-user counts to visualize vote-related activity in real time.
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