10,000 most common English words

This GitHub repository contains a list of the 10,000 most common English words, sorted by frequency, as seen by the Google Machine Translation Team. Here at Google Research we have been using word n-gram models for a variety of R&D projects, such as statistical machine translation, speech recognition, spelling correction, entity detection, information extraction, and … Continue reading 10,000 most common English words

Quick and easy introduction into PHP Mess Detector (PHPMD)

PHP Mess Detector is yet another one of those tools that help to keep the code base manageable and clean.  Here’s the description straight from the site: What PHPMD does is: It takes a given PHP source code base and look for several potential problems within that source. These problems can be things like: Possible … Continue reading Quick and easy introduction into PHP Mess Detector (PHPMD)

Amazon RDS and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Yesterday I helped a friend to figure out why he couldn’t connect to his Amazon RDS database inside the Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud).  It was the second time someone asked me to help with the Amazon Web Services (AWS), and it was the first time I was actually helpful.  Yey! While I do use quite … Continue reading Amazon RDS and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Vim 8.0 Released!

The team behind the greatest text editor of all times has release the new major version – Vim 8.0.  It’s the first major release in 10 years!  Brief overview of the changes: Asynchronous I/O support, channels, JSON Jobs Timers Partials, Lambdas and Closures Packages New style testing Viminfo merged by timestamp GTK+ 3 support MS-Windows … Continue reading Vim 8.0 Released!

Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions — 2016 Edition

Slashdot is running a discussion thread on what are the best browser extensions these days.  The comments cover a variety of browsers and all kinds of extensions.  The most popular are, of course, well know.  But there are a few gems here and there. For me personally, I’ve picked the Tab Snooze extension.  I’ve tried … Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions — 2016 Edition