
Hadoop Beginner's Guide by Garry TurkingtonISBN: 1849517304Hadoop Beginner's Guide is, as the title suggests, a new introductory book to the Hadoop...
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Mobile browsers may look like desktop browsers, but their behavior sometimes is different and we need to understand them to provide the right user experience....
0 replies - 1454 views - 05/10/13 by Maximiliano Firtman in Articles

On March 26th I giddily said it takes about two months to write a technical book. Still high from the recent success it seemed like the thing to...
0 replies - 2108 views - 05/09/13 by Swizec Teller in Articles

Someone came up to me after my MAX session on web development debugging and asked for some advice on how to 'sell' unit testing to his clients. This was my...
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Sublime Text is a very powerful and popular text editor. But it’s more than a text editor… it’s an ecosystem of programmer’s tools where you can...
0 replies - 2102 views - 05/09/13 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles

This five minute talk from DevOps Days Austin 2013 compares a week in the life of a DevOps team to that of a traditional IT Ops team, drawing on...
0 replies - 1546 views - 05/09/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

How to get from a txt-file with short names and labels to a QGIS-Style (qml-file)? I used the below R-script to create a style for this legend...
0 replies - 1357 views - 05/09/13 by Kay Cichini in Articles

Google Glass’s sensorsThis guy probed the depth of Glass’s kernal source code to dig up specifics about Glass’s sensors and hardware. He found a Texas...
0 replies - 3791 views - 05/09/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

A couple of days ago I wrote about Why I am the world’s greatest lover (and other worthless security claims) and it really seemed to...
0 replies - 1302 views - 05/09/13 by Troy Hunt in Articles

The Perrin numbers have a definition analogous to Fibonacci numbers. Define P0 = 3, P1 = 0, and P2 = 2. Then for n >...
0 replies - 1464 views - 05/09/13 by John Cook in Articles

A few weeks back, webserver request queueing came under heightened scrutiny as rapgenius blasted Heroku for not using as much autotune as promised in...
0 replies - 974 views - 05/08/13 by Dan Kuebrich in Articles

There’s no elementary formula for the circumference of an ellipse, but there is an elementary approximation that is extremely accurate.
An ellipse has...
0 replies - 977 views - 05/08/13 by John Cook in Articles

I recently typed out a long, thoughtful response in a textarea. I clicked submit, like I've done millions of times, and I got the dreaded "session expired"...
0 replies - 1631 views - 05/08/13 by Jay Fields in Articles

Some posts and articles, discovered this week on the internet:“3 Reasons Why Your Predictions Of The Future Will Go...
0 replies - 1657 views - 05/08/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

The following sample will extract the contents of a court case and attempt to recognize names and locations using entity recognition software from Stanford...
0 replies - 1489 views - 05/08/13 by Gary Sieling in Articles