Monthly Archives: February 2009

AWS Offers New Data Sets

Amazon Web Services is offering data sets for Freebase, DBpedia, and US Bureau of Transportation Statistics.  They have other datasets as well. The datasets are available via Elastic Block Storage: Amazon EC2 customers can access this data by creating their … Continue reading

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Jing for Screencasting

At Code4Lib I saw Becky Yoose give a lightning talk on AutoIt, a cool tool that is supposedly faster than Macro Express (but much more complicated in terms of writing the programs). So while that was great, what was even … Continue reading

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Lightning Talk at Code4Lib

I did a lightning talk at Code4Lib on Amazon Web Services.  Eventually a video of my presentation will be posted online, but in the meantime, I’m uploading my screencast here. Essentially I launch an AMI, associate it to an IP … Continue reading

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