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A Groovy Script to Keep The Internet Cafe WiFi From Dropping

Have you ever been to an Internet Cafe and connected to the free WIFI? Have you found that after five minutes of activity the connection has been dropped and...

0 replies - 5827 views - 11/02/12 by Peter Pilgrim in Articles

Trisha Gee & Stephen Chin 'NightHacking' with the MongoDB Java Driver [video]

 On Monday, Stephen Chin from Oracle visited me at the 10gen offices as part of his NightHacking tour.  In the video we talk about my sessions at...

0 replies - 2620 views - 11/01/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles

Investigating Deadlocks – Part 2

One of the most important requirements when investigating deadlocks is actually having a deadlock to investigate. In my last blog I wrote some code...

2 replies - 1729 views - 11/01/12 by Roger Hughes in Articles

Disaster Recovery Lessons from Sandy

I just spent the last 24 hours in lower Manhattan while Hurricane Sandy rolled through, and it’s offered some first-hand lessons on disaster recovery....

0 replies - 3359 views - 10/31/12 by Sean Hull in Articles

Mahout: Using a Saved Random Forest/DecisionTree

One of the things that I wanted to do while playing around with random forests using Mahout was to save the random forest and then use use it again which is...

0 replies - 2806 views - 10/31/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Java Web Development Frameworks: Play 2.0 and Spring MVC

Recently, while exploring alternative Java Web Development frameworks, I stumbled upon Play 2.0, I wanted to compare this with Spring MVC, which...

0 replies - 5990 views - 10/31/12 by Krishna Prasad in Articles

Gradle Goodness: Exclude Transitive Dependency from All Configurations

We can exclude transitive dependencies easily from specific configurations. To exclude them from all configurations we can use Groovy's spread-dot operator...

0 replies - 1604 views - 10/31/12 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles

Gradle Goodness: Running Java Applications from External Dependency

With Gradle we can execute Java applications using the JavaExec task or the javaexec() method. If we want to run Java code from an external dependency we...

0 replies - 2172 views - 10/31/12 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles

Correlation Implying Causation and More Data Links of the Week

First, a topic I should perhaps discuss more often on this blog: "Why do people love to say that correlation does not imply...

0 replies - 2133 views - 10/30/12 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Augmented Reality in the Cloud - High Level w/ Windows 8 as Example

Augmented reality is a very promising technology. In some ways it is better than virtual reality. Augmented reality has the advantage of...

0 replies - 3065 views - 10/30/12 by Bruno Terkaly in Articles

11 Steps to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

In this tutorial we are going to cover what changes help change your website from being a slow low ranking site to a race horse. Lately Google has been...

0 replies - 4037 views - 10/30/12 by Paul Underwood in Articles

Updating EclipseLink in WebLogic

JSON binding was added to EclipseLink in version 2.4.  If you are using a version of that does not contain this version (i.e. WebLogic 10.3.4...

0 replies - 2582 views - 10/30/12 by Blaise Doughan in Articles

Testing Quartz Cron Expressions

Declaring complex Cron expressions is still giving me some headaches, especially when some more advanced constructs are used. After all, can you tell when...

0 replies - 2686 views - 10/30/12 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Shortest Path in a Directed Acyclic Graph

Introduction We saw how to find the shortest path in a graph with positive edges using the Dijkstra’s algorithm. We also know how to find the shortest...

0 replies - 6170 views - 10/29/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

The Algorithms of Memory

Originally posted by Eric Burnett, a software engineer at Google on thelowlyprogrammer.comThe human brain has the best storage system on the block in a lot of...

0 replies - 5577 views - 10/29/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles