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.gitignore

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+/.hg

Makefile

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+OUTPUT=slides.html# slides.pdf
+
+all: $(OUTPUT)
+
+clean:
+	rm -f $(OUTPUT) slides.{snm,aux,out,log,nav,toc,latex}
+
+slides.latex: slides.txt ui/beamerdefs.txt ui/stylesheet.latex ui/author.latex
+	./bin/rst2beamer.py --stylesheet=ui/stylesheet.latex --documentoptions=14pt slides.txt $@
+	sed -i.old 's/\\date{}/\\input{ui\/author.latex}/' $@
+
+slides.pdf: slides.latex
+	pdflatex slides.latex
+
+slides.html: slides.txt includes/*.html
+	rst2s5.py --theme-url ui/mochikit slides.txt $@
+
+.PHONY: all clean

bin/README.txt

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+curl -O http://codespeak.net/svn/user/antocuni/bin/rst2beamer.py

bin/rst2beamer.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# encoding: utf-8
+"""
+A docutils script converting restructured text into Beamer-flavoured LaTeX.
+
+Beamer is a LaTeX document class for presentations. Via this script, ReST can
+be used to prepare slides. It can be called::
+
+        rst2beamer.py infile.txt > outfile.tex
+        
+where ``infile.tex`` contains the produced Beamer LaTeX.
+
+See <http:www.agapow.net/programming/python/rst2beamer> for more details.
+
+"""
+# TODO: modifications for handout sections?
+# TOOD: sections and subsections?
+# TODO: enable beamer themes?
+# TODO: convert document metadata to front page fields?
+# TODO: toc-conversion?
+# TODO: fix descriptions
+
+# Unless otherwise stated, created by P-M Agapow on 2007-08-21
+# and open for academic & non-commercial use and modification .
+
+__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
+__author__ = "Paul-Michael Agapow <agapow@bbsrc.ac.uk>"
+__version__ = "0.2"
+
+
+### IMPORTS ###
+
+import locale
+from docutils.core import publish_cmdline, default_description
+from docutils.writers.latex2e import Writer as Latex2eWriter
+from docutils.writers.latex2e import LaTeXTranslator, DocumentClass
+from docutils import nodes
+
+## CONSTANTS & DEFINES: ###
+
+BEAMER_SPEC =   (
+        'Beamer options',
+        'These are derived almost entirely from the LaTeX2e options',
+        tuple (
+                [
+                        (
+                                'Specify theme.',
+                                ['--theme'],
+                                {'default': '', }
+                        ),
+                        (
+                                'Specify document options.       Multiple options can be given, '
+                                'separated by commas.  Default is "10pt,a4paper".',
+                                ['--documentoptions'],
+                                {'default': '', }
+                        ),
+                ] + list (Latex2eWriter.settings_spec[2][2:])
+        ),
+)
+
+BEAMER_DEFAULTS = {
+        'output_encoding': 'latin-1',
+        'documentclass': 'beamer',
+}
+
+
+### IMPLEMENTATION ###
+
+try:
+         locale.setlocale (locale.LC_ALL, '')
+except:
+         pass
+
+class BeamerTranslator (LaTeXTranslator):
+        """
+        A converter for docutils elements to beamer-flavoured latex.
+        """
+
+        def __init__ (self, document):
+                LaTeXTranslator.__init__ (self, document)
+                self.head_prefix = [x for x in self.head_prefix if ('{typearea}' not in x)]
+                hyperref_posn = [i for i in range (len (self.head_prefix)) if ('{hyperref}' in self.head_prefix[i])]
+                self.head_prefix[hyperref_posn[0]] = '\\usepackage{hyperref}\n'
+                self.head_prefix.extend ([
+                        '\\definecolor{rrblitbackground}{rgb}{0.55, 0.3, 0.1}\n',
+                        '\\newenvironment{rtbliteral}{\n',
+                        '\\begin{ttfamily}\n',
+                        '\\color{rrblitbackground}\n',
+                        '}{\n',
+                        '\\end{ttfamily}\n',
+                        '}\n',
+                ])
+                # this fixes the hardcoded section titles in docutils 0.4
+                self.d_class = DocumentClass ('article')
+
+        def begin_frametag (self):
+                return '\\begin{frame}\n'
+
+        def end_frametag (self):
+                return '\\end{frame}\n'
+
+        def visit_section (self, node):
+                if (self.section_level == 0):
+                        self.body.append (self.begin_frametag())
+                LaTeXTranslator.visit_section (self, node)
+
+        def depart_section (self, node):
+                # Remove counter for potential subsections:
+                LaTeXTranslator.depart_section (self, node)
+                if (self.section_level == 0):
+                        self.body.append (self.end_frametag())
+
+        def visit_title (self, node):
+                if (self.section_level == 1):
+                        self.body.append ('\\frametitle{%s}\n\n' % self.encode(node.astext()))
+                        raise nodes.SkipNode
+                else:
+                        LaTeXTranslator.visit_title (self, node)
+
+        def depart_title (self, node):
+                if (self.section_level != 1):
+                        LaTeXTranslator.depart_title (self, node)
+
+        def visit_literal_block(self, node):
+                 if not self.active_table.is_open():
+                          self.body.append('\n\n\\smallskip\n\\begin{rtbliteral}\n')
+                          self.context.append('\\end{rtbliteral}\n\\smallskip\n\n')
+                 else:
+                          self.body.append('\n')
+                          self.context.append('\n')
+                 if (self.settings.use_verbatim_when_possible and (len(node) == 1)
+                                 # in case of a parsed-literal containing just a "**bold**" word:
+                                 and isinstance(node[0], nodes.Text)):
+                          self.verbatim = 1
+                          self.body.append('\\begin{verbatim}\n')
+                 else:
+                          self.literal_block = 1
+                          self.insert_none_breaking_blanks = 1
+
+        def depart_literal_block(self, node):
+                if self.verbatim:
+                        self.body.append('\n\\end{verbatim}\n')
+                        self.verbatim = 0
+                else:
+                        self.body.append('\n')
+                        self.insert_none_breaking_blanks = 0
+                        self.literal_block = 0
+                self.body.append(self.context.pop())
+
+
+class BeamerWriter (Latex2eWriter):
+        """
+        A docutils writer that modifies the translator and settings for beamer.
+        """
+        settings_spec = BEAMER_SPEC
+        settings_defaults = BEAMER_DEFAULTS
+
+        def __init__(self):
+                Latex2eWriter.__init__(self)
+                self.translator_class = BeamerTranslator
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+        description = (
+                "Generates Beamer-flavoured LaTeX for PDF-based presentations." + default_description)
+        publish_cmdline (writer=BeamerWriter(), description=description)
+
+
+### END ######################################################################
+

includes/logo.html

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+<script type="text/javascript">
+    addLoadEvent(function () {
+        appendChildNodes(document.body,
+            DIV({id: "mochikit_logo", 'class': 'draggable'}));
+    });
+</script>

notes.txt

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+Theory:
+
+* http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1394128
+* http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_the_relational_database_doomed.php
+* http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#paxos-simple
+* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps
+* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clocks
+* http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=755678
+
+Caching:
+
+* http://www.danga.com/memcached/
+* Invalidation is hard
+
+Bloom filters:
+
+* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
+* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=947gWqwkhu0
+* http://github.com/jaybaird/python-sbf/tree/master
+* http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~kirsch/pubs/bbbf/esa06.pdf
+* Bloom Filter, Scalable Bloom Filter, Counting Bloom Filter
+
+Cassandra:
+
+* http://code.google.com/p/the-cassandra-project/
+* http://www.slideshare.net/jhammerb/data-presentations-cassandra-sigmod
+* http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/02/07/FacebookCassandraArchitectureAndDesign.aspx
+
+Column Databases:
+
+* http://hypertable.org/
+* http://db.csail.mit.edu/projects/cstore/
+* http://monetdb.cwi.nl/
+* http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/
+
+Bitmap Indexes:
+
+* https://codeforge.lbl.gov/projects/fastbit/
+
+Key-value stores:
+
+* http://blog.plathome.com/2009/02/first-key-value-storage-meeting-held.html
+* http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/index.html
+* http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/
+* http://code.google.com/p/redis/
+
+Distributed Key-Value stores:
+
+* http://opensource.plurk.com/LightCloud/
+* http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores/
+* http://delicious.com/RichardJones
+* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_clocks
+* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps
+
+Distributed Databases
+
+* http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html
+* http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html
+* http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase
+* http://www.hypertable.org/
+
+
+Document Databases:
+
+* http://www.mongodb.org/
+* http://couchdb.apache.org/
+* http://code.google.com/p/thrudb/