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Links You Don't Want to Miss (Apr. 24)

A collection of JavaScript patternsThis is a list of TONS of JavaScript patterns and antipatterns that covers function patterns, jQuery patterns, jQuery plugin...

0 replies - 3797 views - 04/24/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

Moments of Mixtures in Python

I needed to compute the higher moments of a mixture distribution for a project I’m working on. I’m writing up the code here in case anyone else finds this...

0 replies - 2220 views - 04/19/13 by John Cook in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Fountain Codes (from "Damn Cool Algorithms")

That's right, it's time for another episode of the frustratingly infrequent Damn Cool Algorithms series! If you're not familiar with it, you might want to...

0 replies - 14856 views - 04/16/13 by Nick Johnson in Articles

Python: Reading a JSON file

I’ve been playing around with some code to spin up AWS instances using Fabric and Boto and one thing that I wanted to do was define a...

0 replies - 2147 views - 04/10/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Going Mobile with Raspberry Pi

Want to take your Pi project mobile, or maybe prototype a mobile project with your Pi? These tutorials teach you to build a Raspberry Pi laptop, handheld, and...

0 replies - 8942 views - 04/08/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Aho-Corasick String Matching Algorithm in Haskell

Let’s say you have a large piece of text and a dictionary of keywords. How do you quickly locate all the keywords? Aho-Corasick algorithm...

0 replies - 5045 views - 03/19/13 by Swizec Teller in Articles

GEvent + ZeroMQ

In this session you'll see how ZeroMQ - a flexible, lightweight message broker - and gevent - a coroutine-based networking library - are used to create a...

0 replies - 2334 views - 03/18/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Guide to Tech Interviews

I’ve been interviewing people for programming jobs for five years and I’ve recently gotten a look at the interview process from the other side. Here are...

0 replies - 23263 views - 02/28/13 by Kristina Chodorow in Articles

Using The New Twitter API V1.1

From March 5th 2013 Twitter are removing there current API and it will be fully replaced with the new API V1.1. This means that any application that is...

0 replies - 3744 views - 02/11/13 by Paul Underwood in Articles

Intra-Cluster Replication in Apache Kafka

Originally authored by Jun Rao.  Jun will present at this year's ApacheCon North America. Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. It...

0 replies - 2453 views - 02/07/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Kruskal’s Algorithm using union find in Ruby

I recently wrote a blog post describing my implementation of Kruskal’s algorithm – a greedy algorithm using to find a minimum spanning tree (MST) of a...

0 replies - 2962 views - 01/29/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Scrum 101 … an Intensive Online Introduction to Scrum

A scene from the Scrum 101 introductory video. Scrum101 is a side project that I’ve been working on and off for over a year. It started as some...

0 replies - 3563 views - 01/28/13 by Kane Mar in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Adding Large Integers

Introduction We know how to add two integers using a perfectly simple and useful algorithm learned from school or even earlier. This is perhaps one of the...

0 replies - 4968 views - 01/08/13 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Bucket Sort

Introduction What’s the fastest way to sort the following sequence [9, 3, 0, 5, 4, 1, 2, 6, 8, 7]? Well, the question is a bit tricky since the input is...

0 replies - 7006 views - 01/02/13 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Agile at Scale: Atlassian GreenHopper for Large Organizations

Large organizations can handle agile just as well as small ones with the right tools and the acknowledgement that many agile teams does not make an agile...

0 replies - 2588 views - 12/31/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles