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16 Free Online Business Courses That Are Actually Worth Your Time

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Yale: Financial Markets with Bob Shiller

Platform: Coursera

Stanford: Entrepreneurship Through The Lens Of Venture Capital

Platform: Stanford/ITunesU

Stanford: Game Theory

Platform: Coursera

The University of Pennsylvania/Wharton: Gamification

Platform: Coursera

Columbia: Financial Engineering And Risk Management (Part 1)

Platform: Coursera

Duke: How To Reason And Argue

Platform: Coursera

Duke: A Beginner’s Guide To Irrational Behavior

Platform: Coursera

The University of Pennsylvania/Wharton: An Introduction To Marketing

Platform: Coursera

The University of Pennsylvania/Wharton: An Introduction To Financial Accounting

Platform: Coursera

The University of Pennsylvania/Wharton: An Introduction To Operations Management

Platform: Coursera

The University of Pennsylvania/Wharton: An Introduction To Corporate Finance

Platform: Coursera

Udacity: How To Build A Startup

Platform: Udacity

MIT/UC Berkeley: Introductory Macro And Microeconomics

Platform: MIT OpenCourseWare/UC Berkeley on ITunesU

MIT: Innovation And Commercialization

Platform: EdX

Columbia: Economics Of Money And Banking

Platform: Coursera

MIT: Introduction To Lean Six Sigma Methods

Platform: MIT OpenCourseWare

BONUS: Ben Bernanke on the Federal Reserve and MIT’s Andrew Lo on Financial Theory

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/best-free-online-business-courses-2013-10?op=1#ixzz2hrpOdEyw

 

 

TwitterOAuth! Timelines and streams

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PHP library for working with Twitter’s OAuth API.

https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth

Authenticating a Twitter Feed for OAuth API V1.1 – Timelines & streams

This tutorial is designed to help anyone who is using or wants to create a custom Twitter feed that needs to authenticate basic read-only access for any public user timeline with Twitter OAuth, API V1.1.
http://www.webdevdoor.com/php/authenticating-twitter-feed-timeline-oauth/

Hadoop, MapReduce videos

Big Data

Some nice videos that I’v found on famous youtube…
just posting them to watch them later this week 🙂

Sandy Ryza, of Cloudera, gives you a quick run-down of the basics of MapReduce: A programming abstraction that allows for parallel processing of massive data sets without the worries of distributed systems or fault tolerance.

He goes over how it works, some of the applications it’s best suited for, and how it integrates with Hadoop and Java.

Hadoop, Pivotal HD and HAWQ, some stolen paragraphs

Big Data

HAWQ is a native, mature and fast SQL Query Engine for Hadoop.

HAWQ enables existing SQL skillsets on Hadoop with benefits.

  • Parallel Query Optimizer
  • Dynamic Pipelining
  • Pivotal Extension Frameworks
  • Advanced Analytics Functions

Read the full article 
http://www.gopivotal.com/pivotal-products/data/pivotal-hd#4

More stolen paragraphs (paragraphs, images and diagrams)!!

Continue reading Hadoop, Pivotal HD and HAWQ, some stolen paragraphs →

Video presentation of Hadoop, by Doug Cutting

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A nice video presentation of what Hadoop is, by Doug Cutting, the father of Hadoop.

http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/resources/library/aboutcloudera/beyond-batch-the-evolution-of-the-hadoop-ecosystem-doug-cutting-video.html

Description

Apache Hadoop started as batch: simple, powerful, efficient, scalable, and a shared platform. However, Hadoop is more than that. It’s true strengths are:

  • Scalability – it’s affordable due to it being open-source and its use of commodity hardware for reliable distribution.

  • Schema on read – you can afford to save everything in raw form.

  • Data is better than algorithms – More data and a simple algorithm can be much more meaningful than less data and a complex algorithm.

 

Hadoop on Amazon and AirBnB

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First, it uses Hadoop to support its associates program, in which affiliates post links to Amazon-based products on their websites and get a percentage of related revenue. Originally, Rauser explained, Amazon developers wrote three separate applications in C++ to process and analyze data associated with these transactions to determine how much to pay each affiliate. But the system quickly began to run up against scaling issues, particularly every fourth quarter (typically the busiest quarter of the year for Amazon.) Continue reading Hadoop on Amazon and AirBnB →

AjaXplorer aka pydio another dropbox ‘clone’

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Pydio allows you to instantly turn any server into a powerful file sharing platform. Formerly known as AjaXplorer (550 000 downloads in Sept.2013), we are now rebranding and this website is dedicated to the community support.

Gain back control and privacy on your data, reduce your costs, and empower your users with Pydio consumer-grade simplicity allied to enterprise-grade compliance. Pydio deploys on top of your legacy filesystems and instantly connects to your existings users directories. Its plugin-oriented architecture makes it ready for all situations.

Pydio (aka. ajaXplorer) is a powerful, open source, web-based file sync tool.
Jack Wallen, Tech Republic

Red Hat Storage + Pydio 5: scale out storage for the enterprise with Dropbox accessibility.
Veda Shankar, Red Hat Storage

 

Splash page on wordpress

Wordpress,

In a recent work, with wordpress, needed a splash page before anyone enter in the *real* page. In the index.php of the wp root installation, this is what I have to have it working.

if( (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], 'riadeaveiro.pt') === false) && !$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']){
 include './splash/splash.php';
 exit();
}

/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require('./wp-blog-header.php');

So, you should replace riadeaveiro.pt for the domain where the wordpress is, and ./splash/splash.php for the path of the slash page that you want to present to your visitor.