Category Archives: Research
Dear Rep. Culberson
Written on July 6, 2011 at 11:23 pm, by libbyh
I heard the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice & Science (CJS) is considering changing the 2012 appropriation to eliminate the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE). My Representative does not serve on this committee, but I feel pretty strongly about basic science funding and its positive contributions to our economy. So, I tried to write Read more...
Setting up Apache and PHP on Amazon EC2
Written on June 23, 2011 at 1:06 pm, by libbyh
You can tell by today’s posts that I’m getting something started on EC2. You can also read what’s already installed on the free instance or how to get started. PHP and MySQL are not installed on the free instance, so this post is about getting setup so I can run 140dev’s excellent Twitter Database Server.
What’s running on free micro EC2?
Written on June 23, 2011 at 11:47 am, by libbyh
I’ve been having trouble finding out what’s installed and/or running on the free Amazon EC2 instance, so I’ll use this post to list the processes and installs as I uncover them. Default versions of stuff I use: Python 2.6.6 ruby 1.8.7 (2010-12-23 patchlevel 330) [i386-linux] (You’ll need to install Rubygems yourself)
Getting Started with Amazon EC2 on a Mac
Written on June 23, 2011 at 11:23 am, by libbyh
I’m setting up some free Amazon EC2 instances so I can run my Twitter data collectors without violating the terms of my Dreamhost hosting agreement or worrying about losing power on my office machine (happened just last week). Despite the many Google results for “getting started with ec2 on a mac”, the process is not Read more...
Script: Get Twitter user_ids
Written on June 15, 2011 at 2:06 pm, by libbyh
Twitter’s Streaming API requires user_id for just about any user function, but only screen_names are easy to find. The documentation for the Twitter and Twitter4r gems has the wrong syntax for the user.lookup method. So, I wrote a little script that accepts a list of screen_names and gets the associated user_ids. The original version is Read more...