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This talk was recorded at the SFRails meetup at The Climate Corporation last week. talks to us about Internationalization and localization with Rails and what they learned during their initial push into Europe at Hotel Tonight.


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This talk was recorded at the SFRails meetup at The Climate Corporation last week. will give a lightning talk on what he’s learned developing an educational site that teaches students grammar/writing skills. He’ll share insights on how to avoid pitfalls in ed-tech that get the better of many engineers and discuss what technological advances make him hopeful for the future of education.

How to Engineer Products for Students and Teachers — Winning in Ed-Tech


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From UC Berkley’s School of Information, this complete video course will teach you to master big data analysis using examples from Twitter. Video playlist.

A Python library for rapid machine learning prototyping, Ramp acts as a wrapper around several ML and stats libraries like scikit-learn and rpy2. This article works through the ‘Detecting Insults in Social Commentary’ challenge from Kaggle as an example. 15 mins

graph-tool is a super-efficient python module for manipulation and analysis of networks. The core data structures and algorithms are implemented in C++, conferring high performance when using large data sets. 5 mins

Keeping Passwords in Source control

Here’s some slick advice that shows you how to store your passwords and other config info in your repo securely. Protect yourself from this: https://github.com/search?p=3&q=gmail_password&ref=searchresults&type=Code
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On Rails’ SQLi Vulnerability

Complete explanation of how exactly the Rails vulnerability works, including exploitable scenarios and mitigation tips. 15 mins.

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