At University of Minnesota Computer Science Memorial event celebrating the accomplishments of John Riedl. What a great man and mentor. Amazing roster of people celebrating John Riedl’s career here. Researchers from academia, Google and Yahoo.
Software Development
Debating wether I should have 2 4G servers or 1 8G server at Linode for my personal server. 😕 One Ubuntu to manage sounds better.
Found out this morning that Sona Mehring and I share common Perl skills! $_ FTW! 🙂
Updating to WordPress 3.6. Hope this is smooth. 😊
Paging Large Datasets in Semantic MediaWiki
I’ve been working with Yaron Koren’s new Miga project to provide an offline, mobile optimized way of accessing the nutrition data in Wikinosh. It works pretty well! However, we hit a couple of walls trying to get the 20,000+ food items in Wikinosh exported for use in Miga. If you …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Paging Large Datasets in Semantic MediaWikiGoodbye to my friend, John Riedl
Three years ago my friend, mentor and former professor John Riedl shared the news with our book club that he had been diagnosed with cancer. Melanoma. He spent the last three years fighting it. He did it all right, as the scientist he was. He was able to try never-before tested …
Keep reading · 7 minutes: Goodbye to my friend, John RiedlVery impressed with TradingView. If I were to build BigCharts.com again today, I would like to think it would be what they did.
Researching collaboration for a better world: John T. Riedl (1962 – 2013) ← My professor and friend John Riedl honored by Wikimedia.
Made a super simple MediaWiki extension for parsing URLs.
Stopping MediaWiki Spam with Dynamic Questy Captchas
This method of using Questy Captcha has been defeated by some spammers. Please check out my updated dynamic Questy Captcha method. MediaWiki websites are often plagued by spammers. It’s annoying in the extreme. If you setup a blank MediaWiki website and do nothing it is likely …
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