I am proud to announce my series of screencasts on The Cloud and Amazon Web Services. It’s published by the good people at Pragmatic Programmers. “The Cloud” is a buzzword that’s been hyped and overused. We’ll cut through the marketing...
At last weekend’s Hack4Reno, I created a new visualization of the Million Monkeys’ data. It allows you to choose your favorite work of Shakespeare and find out how a particular character was found. You simply place or hover the mouse over a character and...
Update 5: The monkeys recreated every work of Shakespeare and went viral. See the project project postmortem for my thoughts on going viral and what I learned during the project. Update 6: I created a new visualization of the monkeys’ data. Update 4: The monkeys...
One of my favorite Simpsons episodes has a scene where Mr. Burns brings Homer to his mansion (YouTube Video). One of his rooms has a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. One of the monkeys writes a slightly incorrect line from Charles Dickens ‘It was the...
