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LaTex in R Graphs

A nice post was recently published on the rsnippets blog, about the tikzDevice R package. This package is – indeed – awesome. Even if it has...

0 replies - 1233 views - 05/07/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Deployit, Deployment Automation Made Easy

Two weeks ago, I attended the first Swiss JDuchess workshop in Geneva. It was about Deployit, a software to enable continuous deployment. I had already been...

0 replies - 1240 views - 05/06/13 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Hebrew Search with ElasticSearch

Hebrew search is not an easy task, and HebMorph is a project I started several years ago to address that problem. After a certain period of inactivity I'm back...

0 replies - 1797 views - 05/06/13 by Itamar Syn-hershko in Articles

Happybase Connection Pooling

Wrote a simple connection pool for Happybase using socketpool:import time import random import contextlib import happybase from socketpool...

0 replies - 2054 views - 05/06/13 by Chase Seibert in Articles

DevopsDays 2013 - We Are Avoiding Culture, Why?

I just got back from Devops Days Austin. It was a really good conference. I think I enjoyed the speakers and Open Spaces at this event more than I did at...

0 replies - 2420 views - 05/06/13 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

Scala Tree Sort Example

This demonstrates basic language features – case classes, iteration, anonymous functions, etc.abstract class Node case class LeafNode(data: String) extends...

0 replies - 1911 views - 05/06/13 by Gary Sieling in Articles

The Benefits of a Reverse Proxy

A typical ASP.NET public website hosted on IIS is usually configured in such a way that the server that IIS is installed on is visible to the public internet....

0 replies - 1655 views - 05/06/13 by Mike Hadlow in Articles

Animation from R to LaTeX

Just a short post, to share some codes used to generate animated graphs, with R. Assume that we would like to illustrate the law of large number, and the...

0 replies - 1528 views - 05/06/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

A Civic Hacker Corps

I've always been told, "If You Don't Vote, You Can't Whine." This is a statement I've heard from hundreds of American citizens that I've encountered throughout...

0 replies - 3348 views - 05/05/13 by Kin Lane in Articles

Using Scala To Work With Hadoop

Cloudera has a great toolkit to work with Hadoop.  Specifically it is focused on building distributed systems and services on top of the Hadoop...

0 replies - 2091 views - 05/05/13 by Joe Stein in Articles

How Chef Enables Prezi's DevOps Culture

This OpsCode talk from Zsolt Dollenstein explores how major web presentation site Prezi uses Chef to cultivate a DevOps culture:

0 replies - 2203 views - 05/05/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Legacy Code Preservation: Data Warehouse and Legacy Operations

A data warehouse preserves data.It can be argued that a data warehouse preserves only data. This, however, is false.To an extent, a data warehouse...

0 replies - 2385 views - 05/04/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

I Hear You Like Pull Requests

Konstantin Haase delves into adding automatic Pull Request testing to Travis CI, exploring why pull requests are so powerful: Or if you want the...

0 replies - 1900 views - 05/04/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Software Development Macro and Micro Process

If you think that in year 2012 all companies which produce software and IT divisions in our world have already their optimized software development process,...

0 replies - 2311 views - 05/03/13 by Lofi Dewanto in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 3)

Five Ways Data Will Transform Global AgricultureThe G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture just finished up, so Modern Farmer brings us...

0 replies - 6468 views - 05/03/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles