Hector G. Parra: Archive

@praxxis: Comet with Bayeux: node.js vs Jetty and... →

I’ve been looking at the relative performance of cometD-jetty and node.js for a Bayeux based publish/subscribe server. I had high hopes for node.js…

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Bad Code on Vimeo: The music is very appropriate.

Mar 29th

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GSP: ‘I Want to be the Greatest’

Mar 29th

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AEC tests. Part 2. →

Alexey Aylarov of Flagphone has determined that porting Speex’s AEC to Flash using Alchemy is unusable.

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House call 2.0: Telemedicine brings doctors into... →

It’s me! Learn more at http://telios.calit2.uci.edu

Mar 23rd

Apple COO Tim Cook could be in line to replace... →

Tim cook arrived at Apple in 1998 from Compaq Computer. He was a 16-year computer-industry veteran - he’d worked for IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) for 12 of those years - with a mandate to clean up the atrocious state of Apple’s manufacturing, distribution, and supply apparatus. One day back then, he convened a meeting with his team, and the discussion turned to a particular problem in Asia. ...

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Snake Oil? →

Scientific evidence for popular health supplements showing tangible human health benefits when taken orally by an adult with a healthy diet. Beautiful visuals!

Mar 18th

Blood pressure →

Blood pressure (BP) is a force exerted by circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels, and is one of the principal vital signs. During each heartbeat, BP varies between a maximum (systolic) and a minimum (diastolic) pressure. The mean BP, due to pumping by the heart and resistance in blood vessels, decreases as thecirculating blood moves away from the heart through arteries. It has its...

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Erlang vs. Scala →

Mar 15th

HumbleFinance: Dynamic Charts with HTML5, Canvas,... →

HumbleFinance is an HTML5 data visualization tool written as a demonstration of interactive graphing in HTML5. It is similar to the Flash tool onhttp://finance.google.com/. The tool itself is written entirely in JavaScript, using the Prototype and Flotr libraries. It can be used to display any two 2-D data sets of real numerical data which share an axis.

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Is Skype HIPAA-compliant? →

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Light for sleep disorder

Mar 12th

The Case Against Vertical Navigation →

Louis Lazaris: “Left-hand vertical navigation is an out-of-date method.”

Mar 11th

jQuery Quicksand plugin →

allenluo: This is awesome o.o I concur! Quicksand allows you to “Reorder and filter items with a nice shuffling animation.” Inspired by Mac OS X’s CoreAnimation.

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Sen. Roy Ashburn: 'I'm gay' →

… and I voted against all gay rights. Sad.

Mar 9th

Properly Timed Light, Melatonin Lift Winter... →

Lewy AJ, Lefler BJ, Emens JS, Bauer VK. The circadian basis of winter depression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Apr 28.

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Ping →

Verifies IP-level connectivity to another TCP/IP computer by sending Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Request messages. The receipt of corresponding Echo Reply messages are displayed, along with round-trip times. Ping is the primary TCP/IP command used to troubleshoot connectivity, reachability, and name resolution.

Mar 5th

Implementing QoS Solutions for H.323 Video... →

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Why you've never really heard the "Moonlight"... →

Mar 4th

Microsoft Hires Ex-Regulator in Health Push →

I’m not sure how I feel about this…

Mar 2nd

Family Reunification for Chile Earthquake →

We are providing an interactive search widget that can be embedded into any website. The widget enables interactive and error tolerant searches over the People Finder: Chile Earthquake data. This is from Calit2-affiliated Professor Chen Li. His technology works!

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