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I'll Be in Vegas, Trying to Win Against the House

In fact, I’m going there with my family and some friends, including two probabilists (I mean professionals, I am merely an amateur), with this...

0 replies - 1257 views - 04/23/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Cobol v. Fortran

I thought it’d be interesting to compare how many people admit to knowing ancient programming languages on their LinkedIn pages. This is in a contrast to my...

0 replies - 1996 views - 04/23/13 by Gary Sieling in Articles

What if Devops was Invented by Coca Cola?

Ever wondered what Devops would look like when it would be invented by Coca Cola? Enjoy my Ignite session from Devopsdays Paris 2013 What if...

0 replies - 2469 views - 04/23/13 by Patrick Debois in Articles

The Mobilecast: App Development & Lessons Learned at Festo

Sorry, your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio. You can download the podcast directly at the link below. Download the MP3 Date: April...

0 replies - 2291 views - 04/22/13 by Brian Gracely in Articles

IntelliJ IDEA Knows How to Format Spock where: Blocks

IntelliJ IDEA keeps amazing me. Last week I learned the code formatter of IntelliJ IDEA 12 supports Spock specific where: block formatting. Spock has...

0 replies - 1883 views - 04/22/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles

Legacy Code Preservation

Rule One: Writing Software is Capturing Knowledge.Consequence: Converting Software is Preserving Knowledge.When software is revised for a new framework or...

1 replies - 2674 views - 04/22/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

DevOps Ticket Reduction

A reduction in DevOps tickets not only drives IT efficiency, but also creates a cultural shift where teams look forward to rapidly achieving accomplishments....

0 replies - 2520 views - 04/22/13 by Chris Haddad in Articles

dpkg/apt-cache: Useful Commands

As I’ve mentioned in a couple of previous posts I’ve been playing around with creating a Vagrant VM that I can use for my neo4j hacking which has...

0 replies - 635 views - 04/22/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Cloud Deployments: Using Hadoop on Clouds

Packt Publishing has provided Chapter 10 of their forthcoming Hadoop MapReduce Cookbook for DZone Readers, covering Hadoop and Amazon...

0 replies - 860 views - 04/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Why I don’t like printf()

How many times have I seen this: printf("Hello world!\n"); I have a strong opinion, and a rule for using printf(): “Do *not* use printf()!” Using...

0 replies - 523 views - 04/21/13 by Erich Styger in Articles

VirtualBox - Let Host-Only Mode Access the Internet

In an earlier post I described networking modes in VirtualBox. Combining those modes you'll get some kind of swiss knife in realizing somehow exotic...

0 replies - 667 views - 04/21/13 by Ralf Quebbemann in Articles

Actuarial Analytics with R

Jim Guszcza from the Wisconsin School of Business leads this tutorial on Actuarial analytics with R:

0 replies - 614 views - 04/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Statistical Aspects of Data Mining with R

David Mease's "Statistical Aspects of Data Mining" course, taught a few years back at both Stanford and Google, is a great introduction to data mining and R....

0 replies - 1973 views - 04/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Data News: "Reverse Causality," the Online Population, and More

Still a lot of posts, those past days,...

0 replies - 1193 views - 04/20/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Google Mirror API: Working with Menu Items

In this tutorial video, Timothy Jordan explains how menu items work with the Mirror API for Glass:

0 replies - 1406 views - 04/20/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles