The hazards of cross-platform developmentRecently I helped a co-worker with getting Rails, Nginx, and Unicorn up and running in a Linux VM, using Capistrano to...
0 replies - 1324 views - 01/26/13 by Brian Swan in Articles
In my last post I wrote about sorting files in Linux. Decently large files (in the tens of GB’s) can be sorted fairly quickly using that approach....
0 replies - 1925 views - 01/26/13 by Alex Holmes in Articles
This week, I was travelling in Europe (from Lausanne to Amsterdam), and since I have no cell-phone, it is a bit difficult – somethimes – to...
0 replies - 1347 views - 01/26/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
In my last article, I briefly explained how to get data from a resource using python and SPARQL. This article explains how to find the resource in the...
0 replies - 1416 views - 01/25/13 by Col Wilson in Articles
In one of the assignments of Computing for Data Analysis we needed to sort a data frame based on the values in two of the columns and then return the top...
0 replies - 1303 views - 01/25/13 by Mark Needham in Articles
IntroductionThis instalment will cover the single responsibility principle in object-relational design, and its relationship both to data normalization and...
0 replies - 1644 views - 01/25/13 by Chris Travers in Articles
In Continuous Delivery each build is potentially shippable. This fact implies among a lot of other things, to assign a none snapshot version to your...
1 replies - 1926 views - 01/25/13 by Alex Soto in Articles
When I hear the word “sort” my first thought is usually “Hadoop”! Yes, sorting is one thing that Hadoop does well, but if you’re working with large...
0 replies - 1833 views - 01/24/13 by Alex Holmes in Articles
Imagine that you’re a Hadoop administrator, and to make things interesting you’re managing a multi-tenant Hadoop cluster where data scientists, developers...
0 replies - 1765 views - 01/24/13 by Alex Holmes in Articles
Over the past few years I’ve been a kind of informal adviser to the Defrag event. The role is less than onerous, Eric Norlin totally understands...
0 replies - 1364 views - 01/24/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles
Semantic Web this, Semantic Web that, what actual use is the Semantic Web in the real world? I mean how can you actually use it?
If you haven't heard the...
0 replies - 11289 views - 01/24/13 by Col Wilson in Articles
Recently for my new pet project I decided that I would like to have some tests executed during standard mvn test
and some other ones only during different...
3 replies - 1853 views - 01/24/13 by Tomasz Dziurko in Articles
Today Apache Lucene and Solr PMC announced another version of the Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server - version 4.1. This is a major release...
0 replies - 7235 views - 01/23/13 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
Hardware engineers have it so easy.
Or at least they used to. Reviews went something like this.
Gary's designed a new board (OK, this was the late...
0 replies - 2233 views - 01/23/13 by Edmund Kirwan in Articles
Are you interested in introducing BDD to your team? Don’t try and do it like this under these circumstances. Learn from my failure.Having experienced...
10 replies - 17172 views - 01/23/13 by Jon Archer in Articles
