Our technology writing
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Split XML files with `sgrep`, a classic UNIX utility from 1995
sgrep is better than split or csplit for breaking up XML files by element – you can even us...
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Upsert for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3 (and Ruby)
Our upsert library for Ruby gives you NoSQL-like upsert functionality in traditional RDBMS databa...
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Analyze CREATE TABLE SQL with pure Ruby
You can use the new create_table library to analyze and inspect CREATE TABLE statements (what is ...
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How to parse quotes in Ragel (and Ruby)
The key to parsing quotes in Ragel is ([^'\\] | /\\./)* as found in the rlscan example....
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Simple, clean reports in Ruby
Our report library for Ruby is the shortest path between mysql> select * from employees; +...
Our open source software
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Hotel Carbon and Energy Efficiency
Our detailed analysis of data on 46,000 individual US hotels reveals industry leaders, efficiency drivers, trends, and best practices.
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Greening the Workplace 2011
Engaging Employees to Benefit the Planet and the Bottom Line — the findings from our second biennial survey on the extent and nature of staff sustainability initiatives include industry trends and keys to success.
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Air Travel Carbon and Energy Efficiency
Brighter Planet, using an advanced flight carbon and energy model, analyzed more than a decade of commercial airline databases to reveal new details of disparities between the most and least environmentally friendly airlines for travelers. This report presents our findings, including detailed airline efficiency rankings, an examination of the five key drivers of energy efficiency, and an analysis of the huge economic and environmental benefits of the past decade's fuel efficiency improvements.
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Growing the Green Apps Ecosystem: Best Practices for Data Providers
Green apps have enormous potential to mitigate increasing threats to the environment by using new data to power more sustainable decisions. This paper explores best practices data providers, such as government agencies, can use to facilitate the development of green apps.
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Eco-efforts Take On Supply Chain
Improving the quality of carbon emissions data is critical for facilitating accurate and efficient reporting of travel emissions and to support travel supply chain decision- making.
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The American Carbon Foodprint
Understanding and reducing your food's impact on climate change
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Employee Engagement Survey Report
An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Employee Sustainability Programs
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Carbon Modeling Methodology
The philosophy, architecture, equations, and data sources behind our carbon emissions models.
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Top corporate sustainability trends to watch in 2012
As sustainability practices continue to mature, recent events and trends have set the stage for significant shifts in 2012.
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Transparency in scientific software: Brighter Planet's approach
Brighter Planet strives to be clear and open on each of the three fundamental building-blocks in a scientific calculation: model design, reference data, and calculation execution.
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Tronprint: A new solution for measuring the impact of cloud apps
One of the major factors contributing to an organization’s sustainability, especially for web application companies, is the carbon footprint associated with IT operations.Brighter Planet has developed an innovative new program, Tronprint, to take an “inside-out” approach to determining the energy usage for applications written in Ruby.
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Zero-downtime deploys for critical web services
Moving to the cloud can provide many advantages. However, how do you achieve 99.9% uptime if you have to take your web services down completely whenever you make an update? Brighter Planet’s CM1 product is one of our core services and we consider any downtime unacceptable.