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Understanding the Play Filter API

With Play 2.1 hot off the press, there have been a lot of people asking about the new Play filter API. In actual fact, the API is incredibly simple:...

0 replies - 1611 views - 02/24/13 by James Roper in Articles

Removing White Space Around R Figures

When I want to insert fig­ures gen­er­ated in R into a LaTeX doc­u­ment, it looks bet­ter if I first remove the white space around...

0 replies - 1322 views - 02/24/13 by Rob J Hyndman in Articles

Further Reading on GLMs and Ratemaking

Some articles found in Actuarial journal, on ratemarking,Predictive Modeling—You Mean Actuarial Wizardry?, by Shane...

0 replies - 1255 views - 02/24/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

The Strengths and Weaknesses of Extreme Programming

In this mini-presentation, I go over what I perceive to be the strengths and weaknesses of the "Extreme Programming" software development ideology.For more...

0 replies - 2709 views - 02/24/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

VFS Transport for WSO2 ESB

Virtual file system (VFS) is an abstraction layer on top of a more concrete file system.  It allows client applications to access different types of...

0 replies - 1837 views - 02/24/13 by Madhuka Udantha in Articles

EasyCriteria 2.0 – JPA Criteria Should Be Easy

In the post today we will see about the new version of the framework named EasyCriteria. At the end of this post we will see what is to come here in the...

2 replies - 2359 views - 02/23/13 by Hebert Coelho D... in Articles

Akka and CUDA

Let’s continue our discussion of native components that react to messages from Akka. We will wire in actual image processing to our C++ code. To make the...

0 replies - 1735 views - 02/23/13 by Jan Machacek in Articles

Modeling Individual Losses with Mixtures

Usually, the sentence that I keep saying in my regression classes is “please, look at your data“. In our previous post, we’ve been playing like most...

1 replies - 1069 views - 02/23/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

A Little Temporal Feedback When Running Tests

I have been working a lot recently with a bunch of test jobs that are intermittently getting stuck. Now it is possible to work out the point where the problem...

0 replies - 1499 views - 02/23/13 by Gerard Davison in Articles

Helping Overcome Impediments Between Managers and Agile Teams

Agile teams often experience difficulties when they have to deal with problems that occur outside the team and may require management involvement to resolve....

0 replies - 2036 views - 02/23/13 by Benjamin Mitchell in Articles

What Ockham Really Said, the Math of Marital Ruin, and More Data Links

Time to share links to interesting posts I found here and there this week. We should start with“What Ockham really...

0 replies - 1918 views - 02/22/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Fetching Previous Revisions in Subversion

One of the fundamental features of Apache Subversion is that it remembers every change committed to the central repository, allowing users to easily...

0 replies - 1649 views - 02/22/13 by Jessica Thornsby in Articles

63 Things it Means to Be a Project Manager

Let's face it, being a project manager is not for everyone. We place a truckload of expectations on a project manager and then use an extremely asymmetric...

0 replies - 2087 views - 02/22/13 by Tathagat Varma in Articles

Bootstrap's Top 10 Big Data Predictions for This Year, Part 1

Big data is one of the dominant marketing topics of 2013 and Bootstrap believes that every technology related company needs to define their big...

0 replies - 453 views - 02/22/13 by Bootstrap Mark... in Articles

Trap your Alerts: An SNMP How-to using Java and Mule Enterprise Console

MMC Customer stories series: SNMP alerts Motivation We are evaluating using Nagios or a similar Big Brother Enterprise solution for...

0 replies - 786 views - 02/22/13 by Nahuel Dalla Vecchia in Articles