IDE 2.0: The Age of Intelligent IDEs
The latest innovation in the Eclipse space that I'd like to share with you is Code Recommenders. Already available as a plugin for... more »
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Statistics behind the nginx success story
Nginx is the web server technology that gains market share from all the other ones. We have a closer look at the statistics.
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TSQL Beginners Challenge 15 - Reverse the order of words within a sentence
This challenge is to reverse the order of words within a sentence. Most of us must be familiar with reversing the order of letters within a word.
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What is Dalvik?
When it comes to the Oracle lawsuit against Google regarding Android, many sites and news outlets say that “Android applications are written in Java”.
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The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL
It is a poorly kept secret that NoSQL is not really about eliminating SQL from database systems (e.g., see these links). Rather, systems... more »
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About the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit
Posts about the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit
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Study on benefits of TDD
OK, this isn’t news, this study came out a couple of years ago and was covered by many people then. But, I find myself regularly... more »
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Data Mining Algorithms In R - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
Excellent overview of data mining algorithms in R
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5 Killer Ways to Streamline your Coding Efficiency
I recently read a forum thread about designers and developers, and the hourly rates they charge. One commenter made a great point, saying... more »
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Properties - Discussion
This post is all about why Properties are useful and ultimately why Sgine uses them. Properties as a term is bandied about in many... more »
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Pros & Cons of Outsourcing
Should a company interested in outsourcing their business processes choose an onshore or offshore solution?
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Teaching a Neural Network to Learn the Letter A from B
How to train a neural network to learn the letter A from B using Python.
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R Programming, Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Visualization
Tutorials, etc., on the R programming language
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Social Problems in Computer Science
This morning, I read a blog post about women in computer science which was quite compelling. It reminded me, of course, of another... more »
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Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter
Dan Zamboni's take on Twitter sentiment analysis - runs every hour
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A Unit Test You Should Never Write
I was revisiting some code from several months ago and found some tests similar to the below.public void... more »
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Agile Sherpa: A Gentle Guide to the Agile Landscape
There's tons of resources on agile and lean practices out there, but the hard part is finding a great site where agile beginners and... more »
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Do we have enough brains for multicore programming?
Do we really lack the brainpower to crack parallel programming? Is it a matter of education or does parallel programming require a... more »
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Building a Vector Space Indexing Engine in Python
Ever wanted to code a search engine from scratch? Well actually its a pretty simple thing to do. Here is an example indexer I coded up in... more »
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In-depth review of ANTS Performance Profiler 6 from Red Gate
We take an in-depth look at the latest incarnation of Red Gate's ANTS Performance Profiler and test it out on a real world .NET ... more »
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10 Weird and Wonderful Feats of Architecture That'll Blow Your Mind
Modern architecture has tended towards becoming an art-form in recent times, here are some examples of incredible feats of architecture... more »
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Blow Things Up with JavaScript
Jonas Wagner has ported the Flash 2D physics engine Box2DFlash to JavaScript. In his demo Jonas uses the Canvas tag to map the physics... more »
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Is Your PHP Application Affected by the Y2K38 Bug?
Y2K38, or the Unix Millennium Bug, affects PHP and many other languages and systems which use a signed 32-bit integer to represent dates... more »
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Don't Count on Oracle to Keep OpenOffice.org Alive
OpenOffice.org is not Oracle's only other open source undertaking. There's also MySQL, for instance, which will likely feel the effects... more »
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Business Intelligence From Twitter Text? Eight Books To Get You Started! (Updated 2010-08-23)
The rise of Twitter has made large quantities of text available in multiple languages. As a result, text processing, text analytics and... more »
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