
Tim Hopper asked on Twitter today:#rstats programming without @hadleywickham’s libraries is like ________ without _________.Some of the replies...
0 replies - 3012 views - 11/08/12 by John Cook in Articles

If you have recently come to Cassandra and you are happily using CQL,
this blog post will probably only serve to confuse you. You may...
0 replies - 2814 views - 11/08/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

This week, you get not one, but TWO weekly polls. One is displayed as usual, and will give instant results, like normal. It's at the bottom of this page and...
0 replies - 8438 views - 11/08/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

As far as I know, the bold suggestion of recommending 40 hours
working per week came from the XP community through the practice of Sustainable pace. ...
0 replies - 8980 views - 11/08/12 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles

A few years ago I was asked by one of our customers to help them
make better use of their integration layer. Ever since then me and my
team have been...
0 replies - 4230 views - 11/07/12 by Marco Fränkel in Articles

Lately,
I have been doing some reading on Software Development practices and
came across a software development methodology called SEMAT, which
stands...
0 replies - 6499 views - 11/07/12 by Luis Atencio in Articles

Today's post will target an interesting but quite powerful concept:
packing your application as single, runnable JAR file, also known as one or fat...
4 replies - 5662 views - 11/07/12 by Andriy Redko in Articles

I was a user of NextStep. Not just a user, but a lover. I loved the power of NextStep to create apps. I built Mesa for NextStep… imagine an OS so powerful...
41 replies - 16086 views - 11/07/12 by David Pollak in Articles

Data scientist: the sexiest job of the 21st century. But do we really need a new army of data scientists? Is there an alternative? There might just be --...
0 replies - 3113 views - 11/06/12 by Maarten Ectors in Articles

Twelve months on from my first visit to the UK edition of Droidcon,
I was back in Islington this week for this year’s version. The format
was the same:...
0 replies - 1306 views - 11/06/12 by Dan Dyer in Articles

Kent Beck in his recent post Functional TDD: A Clash of Cultures
summarizes well the key principles and benefits that underlie
test-driven...
0 replies - 2748 views - 11/06/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles

Quite recently in one of my projects I had a situation in which I needed to create an integration test for the application. That's not very odd isn't it?...
0 replies - 1787 views - 11/06/12 by Marcin Grzejszczak in Articles

I spend a lot of time trying to find company logos and a little blurb about what a company does. You'd think in this cloudy API driven world there would...
0 replies - 3244 views - 11/05/12 by Kin Lane in Articles

I’ve spent my last 7 weeks trying to follow Martin Odersky’s Scala courses on the Coursera platform.
In doing so, my intent was to widen my approach on...
1 replies - 4592 views - 11/05/12 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Tomorrow is the general election day in the USA. If you've seen any of the debates or the rhetoric leading up to this year's election you've...
1 replies - 31942 views - 11/05/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles