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It's been a little over a year since we first announced the V2 engine. After many months of work and help from the Pipes developer community, all Pipes now are running off our new V2 engine! Special thanks to hapdaniel and libra_sun for reporting issues and making V2 a better engine. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

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The Award for the Advancement of Free Software is given annually to an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. This year, it was given to Yukihiro Matsumoto (aka Matz), the creator of the Ruby programming language. Matz has worked on GNU, Ruby, and other free software for over 20 years… http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

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The HTML panel properly supports MathML entities references. There are also three options how to display entities in general. You can see the symbol directly, entity name or unicode representation ( issue 3159 ). Colors can be changed using up/down keys (when editing them in the Style side panel). Various formats are supported (rgbs, hsla, hex) ( issue 5177 ) http://getfirebug.com/

refine - Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) - Google Project Hosting

http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/ Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase .
http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/doc-dollars-guides-collecting-the-data Photo by Dan Nguyen/ProPublica Our Dollars for Docs news application [1] lets readers search pharmaceutical company payments to doctors. We’ve written a series of how-to guides explaining how we collected the data.

Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data - ProPublica