With any luck, ifttt.com will be gatewaying the links from http://pinboard.in/u:jm/ to this Twitter feed...

'gcprof is a simple utility for profile allocation and garbage collection activity in the JVM [...] Profile allocation and garbage collection activity in the JVM. The gcprof command runs a java command under profiling. Allocation and collection statistics are printed periodically. If -n or -no are provided, statistics are also reported in terms of the given application metric. Total allocation, allocation rate, and a survival histogram is given. The intended use for this tool is twofold: (1) monitor and test garbage allocation and GC behavior, and (2) inform GC tuning.'

In which Ben Walsh memorably takes on racist/right-wing comments from a Labour senator, and gets told to "go back to D4". ho ho

MySQL as a storage backend -- basically an InnoDB store

'Eric Fischer, who continues his string of mapping fun and doesn't even do it for his day job, maps the world in binary subdivisions. Each bounding box contains an equal number of geotagged tweets.' via Nelson

lots of good questions and answers in here

intro slideshow to this really nifty-looking distcomp platform

'The past decade has seen a revolution in data processing. MapReduce, Hadoop, and related technologies have made it possible to store and process data at scales previously unthinkable. Unfortunately, these data processing technologies are not realtime systems, nor are they meant to be. There's no hack that will turn Hadoop into a realtime system; realtime data processing has a fundamentally different set of requirements than batch processing.

However, realtime data processing at massive scale is becoming more and more of a requirement for businesses. The lack of a "Hadoop of realtime" has become the biggest hole in the data processing ecosystem. Storm fills that hole.'

'The [Dutch] councils are working with a specialist Amsterdam research firm, using the type of computer software previously deployed only in counterterrorism, monitoring [LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter] traffic for keywords and cross-referencing any suspicious information with digital lists of social welfare recipients.

Among the giveaway terms, apparently, are “holiday” and “new car”. If the automated software finds a match between one of these terms and a person claiming social welfare payments, the information is passed on to investigators to gather real-life evidence.' With a 30% false positive rate, apparently -- let's hope those investigations aren't too intrusive!

"slower streets" generate more photos/tweets than "faster streets", with a peak around 9 mph

'a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites'; 'includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.' Very, very nice, AL2 licensed (via Mick Twomey)

a master-stroke of Twitter-based media hoaxing, very funny. particularly like the assist from @Mike_FTW!

based on Twitter's surprise move passing over Dublin for London, and how to fix it: "launch the Internet Visa, an aggressive program that allows all Irish Internet companies to recruit from anywhere in the world. Reduce the red tape (combine all permit and visa documentation), guarantee a turnaround time measured in days (a small number) and avoid all the mistakes the UK has made with its Startup Visa initiative. Bring the talent from everywhere outside the EU to Ireland. Ireland doesn’t scale organically. So it needs to in-source. We need to be honest about our shortcomings and tackle them with something which will make HR Directors smile. Imagine a country with all the existing advantages of Ireland plus the ability to hire anyone in the world you wanted. Who in their right mind wouldn’t establish their European base there?" He's dead right, this is a massive problem for the Irish tech industry right now

in Twitter, obvs. This is incredibly handy, and very poorly-documented

jesus. Not only do they coin the cramp-inducing neologism "twolicy", they then have the temerity to suggest that people should "donate" their Facebook status so that FG can spam their social group. awful

great round-up of "live" information sources while Dublin's big freeze continues

rather than force users of their official Android client to upgrade come the OAuthpocalypse, like everyone else has had to, they added a custom basic-auth backdoor: append "?source=twitterandroid" to the URLs. hilarity. apparently this also works for all other clients, too

Twitter seem to be attempting to control misbehaving clients, by using the "consumer key" pair as a secret key for app developers. This is proving impossible for FOSS clients to work with, and is trivially hacked to allow third-party app impersonation. Bad idea, Twitter

free Twitter proxy for access to the Twitter API without requiring OAuth, perfect for stupid read-only stuff like my filter-tweets script (via Padraig)

European air traffic control Twitter feed and NOC site, via Boards.ie. The thread itself is a good reference, too

'Falling victim to a [phish] isn’t just a matter of not being wise to the ways of the world: it’s a matter of being caught out in a moment of distraction and of unlikely circumstance.' +1, that matches with the personal phishing stories I've heard from others

specifically, Hadoop and Pig for log/metrics analytics, Cassandra going forward; great preso, lots of detail and code examples. also, impressive number-crunching going on at Twitter

from Twitter. looks interesting

dealing with the biggest problem with St. Patrick's Day

'for a number of years, a person has been creating torrent sites that require a login and password as well as creating forums set up for torrent site usage and then selling these purportedly well-crafted sites and forums to other people innocently looking to start a download site of their very own. However, these sites came with a little extra — security exploits and backdoors throughout the system. This person then waited for the forums and sites to get popular and then used those exploits to get access to the username, email address, and password of every person who had signed up.'

+1

pay EUR3 per month to receive Twitter @replies to your SMS mobile in Ireland -- a good niche

next in a long line of one-to-many communication systems used by bad guys

"Life would be easier if you could mark people as spam"