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Is Machine Learning Losing Its Impact?

You’ve probably already heard about the interesting paper by Kiri Wagstaff, titled ”Machine Learning that Matters”, presented at this years ICML...

0 replies - 3286 views - 06/28/12 by Mikio Braun in Articles

Is Copy and Paste Programming Really a Problem?

Copy and Paste Programming – taking a copy of existing code in your project and repurposing it – violates coding best practices like Don’t Repeat...

4 replies - 11394 views - 06/28/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Getting Past the Big Data Buzz to Yield Business Value

As the Big Data phenomenon continues to gather momentum, more and more organizations are starting to recognize the unexploited value in the vast amounts of...

4 replies - 3180 views - 06/27/12 by Donal Daly in Articles

Is $1,500,000 enough for a 1.0 release?

We in the Plumbr team decided that it is. Over the last few months in beta our customers have solved more than 200 memory leaks with the help of Plumbr.200 ...

0 replies - 2481 views - 06/27/12 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

Eclipse Community Survey Result for 2012

Each year we survey the Eclipse community to gather some insight into what developers are doing with Eclipse and open source.  We have published...

0 replies - 2939 views - 06/27/12 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

Software Architects Need Not Apply

I saw an online job posting several years ago that listed a set of desired software development and programming skills and concluded with the...

2 replies - 2886 views - 06/27/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

My Opinion: The Document is the Single Source of Truth

I’m inspired by the title of a blog entry that mulls Angular. The title in question, for those that have not clicked is The model is the single source of...

0 replies - 1793 views - 06/27/12 by Paul Hammant in Articles

A Response Time Metric for Service Level Agreements

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) usually specify a response time criteria that must be met. Although SLAs can have a wide range of metrics like throughput,...

0 replies - 3188 views - 06/27/12 by Shanti Subramanyam in Articles

The Subject of Women Programmers is Boring

I've been challenged to do a session at a very large conference around women in programming.  Which leads to two reactions from me 1) wow, what an...

0 replies - 18793 views - 06/26/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles

Facebook and Twitter: Behind the Scenes

In my last blog I created a simple Twitter application that uses the Spring Social Twitter module to access a user’s public time line data. As I...

0 replies - 2145 views - 06/25/12 by Roger Hughes in Articles

Overheard: Development Myths

Continuing the theme of Things I Have Heard I Don't Think I Agree With. To developers technologies are everything I can't remember the context of...

2 replies - 2630 views - 06/25/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles

8 Tips for Building Apps from Big Data

One thing that gets lost in the general Big Data hubbub is the critical question of apps. Big Data can provide stunning business insights but unless those...

0 replies - 3978 views - 06/25/12 by Chris Keene in Articles

7 Programmer Recruiting Mistakes

We’ve all met them. The programmers that can’t program. They can hardly write anything that compiles on their own. Producing quality quality code is...

4 replies - 24517 views - 06/25/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

The Duck is a Lie

What follows is my experience with Java, PHP and Ruby. I mainly use PHP as a dynamic language that supports duck typing but also the definition of...

0 replies - 6348 views - 06/25/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

On Structured and Unstructured Big Data Analytics

Analysis of unstructured data is the hot topic these days – organizations are lured by the promise of deriving huge incremental value by gaining insights...

0 replies - 4994 views - 06/23/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles