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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 23)

Always Be Coding - Put Yourself in the Best Position to Get an Engineering Job This post is a must-read for just about any developer.  Save it somewhere...

0 replies - 1710 views - 05/22/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The Big List of 256 Programming Languages

Summer typically brings lots of vacation time for people. Instead of sitting around and being lazy, why not take the time to learn a new programming...

6 replies - 12097 views - 05/16/13 by Robert Diana in Articles

Architecture-Breaking Bugs – when a Dreamliner Becomes a Nightmare

The history of computer systems is also the history of bugs, including epic, disastrous bugs that have caused millions of $ in damage and destruction and even...

1 replies - 12808 views - 04/22/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/17)

An Innovative New Sales Strategy: More Puppies! These guys ran an A/B test to see if a picture of a puppy increased clicks. Turns out, it more than doubled...

0 replies - 2109 views - 04/17/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

So You Think You Can Polymorph?

In the true spirit of this blog I am going to take the complex idea of polymorphism and make it as simple as possible. Now you may already think you...

7 replies - 4644 views - 04/16/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...

0 replies - 312 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

ActuateOne for OEMs

"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...

0 replies - 350 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Thursday Code Puzzler: Sieve of Eratosthenes

It's been a long time since I posted a Puzzler, but as I was perusing Khan's CS courses this morning (which look really cool!) I came across this fascinating...

3 replies - 3425 views - 01/17/13 by Raymond Camden in Articles

Last-Minute Gifts for Beginning Coders

You're looking for the right gifts for a young or beginning programmer in your life, and you need to get them in a hurry. Not to worry: here are five ideas for...

0 replies - 5810 views - 12/21/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Code Puzzler Response - Find the Integer Square Root of a Positive Integer

This Code Puzzler comes from the community contributor - Erik ColbanThanks, Eric for today's extra brain-teaser!Write a function that calculates the integer...

0 replies - 3691 views - 12/13/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Lecture by Sir Tony Hoare, Inventor of Quicksort

On Monday evening, 3rd December, 2012, I went along to the British Computer Society London in the Strand for a lecture from none other than Professor...

0 replies - 2836 views - 12/07/12 by Peter Pilgrim in Articles

Cassandra in the Netflix Architecture

A talk from Denis Sheahan on Netflix's Cassandra Architecture and Open Source efforts. Presented on 28 March 2012 in Cassandra Europe. This presentation...

0 replies - 349 views - 11/20/12 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized

Collaborative Filtering at Scale

Sean Owen from the Mahout project (& Pentech VC,) at the 2nd BigData London meetup.

0 replies - 283 views - 11/20/12 by Brandon Nokes in Uncategorized

My Algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Problem

I was thinking about the Travelling Salesman problem this morning. I came up with an algorithm that permits a few nice optimizations. My guess is that...

1 replies - 8552 views - 07/27/12 by Shannon Behrens in Articles

Why Do Computer Scientists Need To Understand Software Developers?

I saw a tweet asking why do we educate computer scientists to get developers and compared this to structural engineers and stone masons.  I believe this...

2 replies - 7572 views - 03/15/12 by Tim Murphy in Articles