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Project Plugh: Open Source Log Analysis

Short AnswerI'm building an open source log manage/analysis tool that will offer folks what Splunk offers folks, except it's...

0 replies - 1381 views - 05/23/13 by David Pollak in Articles

The Rise and Fall of Binomial Coefficients

When you expand (x + y)n, the coefficients increase then decrease. The largest coefficient is in the middle if n is even; it’s the two in...

0 replies - 830 views - 05/23/13 by John Cook in Articles

Identity is the New Perimeter

It was Bill Gates who said that security should be based on "policy, not topology". It's a phrase which always stuck with me. Rather than basing security...

0 replies - 407 views - 05/23/13 by Mark O'neill in Articles

Need a 12-Digit Prime?

You may have seen the joke “Enter any 12-digit prime number to continue.” I’ve seen it floating around as the punchline in several contexts. So what...

0 replies - 951 views - 05/22/13 by John Cook in Articles

How to Stand Out at Work: 10 Tips for Programmers (Part 2)

This is the second part of the article in which I’m sharing a list of simple tips that, in my opinion, can help programmers succeed at their current...

0 replies - 5962 views - 05/22/13 by Yuriy Lopotun in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Damn Cool Cardinality Estimation

Suppose you have a very large dataset - far too large to hold in memory - with duplicate entries. You want to know how many duplicate entries, but your data...

0 replies - 3915 views - 05/22/13 by Nick Johnson in Articles

A Visit to the Valley

At the end of April, Leo and I went on a one week trip to the Valley. Over the years, we had built up a number of connections in the Valley and we...

0 replies - 1448 views - 05/22/13 by Mikio Braun in Articles

Getting Teams to Deliver Predictably

As recently as this week, I’ve been involved in conversations with customers about how we can help make their teams deliver more predictably.  How can...

0 replies - 1807 views - 05/22/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles

Escape Process’ Death Valley, or How to Tell a Cat From a Washing Machine

Ken Robinson recently delivered yet another great talk on the state of American education.  He pointed out that countries that take a more organic...

0 replies - 1468 views - 05/22/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 21)

DDoSaaS Miiiight Be a Little Sketchy Surprise! If you PayPal someone to conduct a DDoS attack, things might get a little shady. Brian Krebs investigates...

0 replies - 3901 views - 05/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Your login form posts to HTTPS, but you blew it when you loaded it over HTTP

Here’s an often held conversation between concerned website user and site owner: User: “Hey mate, your website isn’t using SSL when I enter my...

1 replies - 2440 views - 05/21/13 by Troy Hunt in Articles

The Many Mathematical Models of the Shuffle

In a previous post, a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I will be in Las Vegas by the end of July. And I took the opportunity to write a post...

0 replies - 2091 views - 05/20/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Unix: Working with parts of large files

Chris and I were looking at the neo4j log files of a client earlier in the week and wanted to do some processing of the file so we could ask the client to...

0 replies - 2668 views - 05/20/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Converting a list of dates into a shorter, combined list

Forgive the title, I'm not sure it best describes the task. I was asked by a reader to consider a simple problem. Given a list of dates, how would you rewrite...

0 replies - 1310 views - 05/20/13 by Raymond Camden in Articles

Moving Education Toward Open Source in Sri Lanka

Recently, I read this post about Richard Stallman’s (RMS) visit to India. And read more about RMS’s visit impacted India. I read this very, very...

1 replies - 1377 views - 05/18/13 by Tharindu Mathew in Articles