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Fingertips Design and Development. Fingertips offers design and development services for Web, iPhone, iPad, and Android. On most projects, the scope of our work is full lifecycle; from initial requirements gathering all the way to production, as well as full depth; from front-end human interface design deep down into the back-end architecture. Interested in working with us? Please send a short description of your project to Thijs van der Vossen, thijs@fngtps.com. With ActiveRecord: AutosaveAssociation an...
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Split XML files with `sgrep`, a classic UNIX utility from 1995 [Brighter Planet's Safety in Numbers]
http://numbers.brighterplanet.com/2012/09/11/split-xml-files-with-unix-utility-sgrep
Posted by Seamus on Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Split XML files with `sgrep`, a classic UNIX utility from 1995. For breaking up XML files by element you can even use it to create a constant-memory streaming parser. TourismEntity . /TourismEntity. Transmission file.xml XXXSTART TourismEntity. State New York /State. Saying I NY /Saying. Saying Is For Lovers /Saying. Saying Americas Dairyland /Saying. See below for why that output is useful). Using sgrep to split XML. With, for example, a Ruby program:.
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A new offset project [Brighter Planet's Safety in Numbers]
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Posted by Ian on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. A new offset project. We’ve got a new offset project, and once again it’s the first of it’s kind for Brighter Planet. The Rentech Fertilizer Plant. Project supports a new N. O destruction system at midwestern fertilizer plant, and is certified under the Climate Action Reserve. Rentech’s fertilizer plant in East Dubuque, Illinois produces nitric acid and ammonia, two of the main ingredients in fertilizer. The plant used to release Nitrous oxide (N. Brighter Pl...
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Back to the Browser - A JavaScript Workflow for UNIX Nerds [Brighter Planet's Safety in Numbers]
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Posted by derek on Thursday, September 13, 2012. Back to the Browser - A JavaScript Workflow for UNIX Nerds. When Apple announced Mac OS X Lion, their tagline was Back to the Mac as they were bringing some features from iOS into the desktop-oriented Mac OS. In the JavaScript world, a similar thing has happened: innovations in the Node.js. Space can be brought back to the browser. These innovations have made JavaScript development faster and cleaner with command-line tools and the npm packaging system.
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Upsert for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3 (and Ruby) [Brighter Planet's Safety in Numbers]
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Posted by Seamus on Tuesday, September 04, 2012. Upsert for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3 (and Ruby). Library for Ruby gives you NoSQL-like. Functionality in traditional RDBMS databases. How? INSERT . ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. CREATE FUNCTION merge db. 50% 80% faster than ActiveRecord. New in 0.4.0. When used in PostgreSQL mode, database functions are re-used, so you don’t have to be in batch mode to get the speed advantage. Upsert was 78% faster than find new/set/save. What is a selector? And involves a...
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Science [Safety in Numbers]
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Middot; Contact us. Brighter Planet powers the leading computational sustainability platform, using hard numbers and raw data to reveal actionable opportunities and deliver measurable results to businesses and individuals worldwide. Our story and vision for the future of sustainability. Our staff, board of directors, and advisors. A list of our collaborators. Brighter Planet in the news and resources for the press. How we work with our clients. The backbone of Brighter Planet is our CM1. Brighter Planet'...
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TripZero - Carbon Calculator
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Where Would You Like a Hotel? We'll find a great room and calculate your carbon footprint. Where is the hotel? When are you staying? How Are You Getting There? We'll use this to calculate the carbon impact of your transportation. Where are you coming from? How will you get there? Erase Your Trip's Entire Footprint, Free. Just book your hotel – at the guaranteed lowest rate. Ndash; and we"ll eliminate your carbon footprint at no charge. How did we calculate this? Average Pounds of C02 Per Week. The Low Pr...