Category: Development
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Animated IRL Pirate Attacks In R
Avast me hearRties! (ok, enough of the pirate speak in a blog…
Send Mac OS Notifications From RStudio *Server*! (via Growl)
Having received a couple follow-ups to the OS X notifications on RStudio Desktop for the Mac post, I was determined to find a quick hack to get remote notifications to OS X working from (at least) RStudio Server instances running on the…
Rforecastio Update
Thanks to a comment, I tweaked the data retrieval to ignore SSL cert errors. You can change that tweak back if you go through the pain of updating the SSL libraries on your Windows boxes (it doesn't seem to be an issue on OS…
Send Mac OS Notifications From R
The data retrieval and computation operations are taking longer and longer as we start cranking through more security data and I'll often let tasks run in the background whilst performing more mundane tasks or wasting time on Twitter. For…
Rforecastio - Simple R Package To Access forecast.io Weather Data
It doesn't get much better for me than when I can combine R and weather data in new ways. I've got something brewing with my Nest thermostat and needed to get some current wx readings plus forecast data. I could have chosen a number of…
nizdos - Nest Thermometer Notifications And Data Logging In Python
I've had a Nest thermometer for a while now and it's been an overall positive experience. It's given me more visibility into our heating/cooling system usage, patterns and preferences; plus, it actually saved us money last…
My Picks From #PyCon2013
A huge thanks to the speakers and conference organizers for making these resources freely available, especially to those of us who were not able to attend the…
Retrieve IP ASN & BGP Peer Info With R
This is part of a larger project I'm working on, but it's useful enough to share (github version coming…
Extracting OSE Firewall Alert Data From IMAP (Gmail) Mail To CSV With Python
I played around with OSE Firewall for WordPress for a couple days to see if it was worth switching to from the plugin I was previously using. It's definitely not as full featured and I didn't see any WP database extensions where it kept a…
Get an R Data Frame from a MongoDB Query
There's a good FAQ on how to do the MongoDB query -> R data frame but I wanted to post a more complete example that included the database connection and query setup since I suspect there are folks new to Mongo who would appreciate the…