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DevOps Without "Dev" is DOA

Businesses across all sectors are trying to deliver web applications to their customers faster than ever before, empowered by Agile development...

0 replies - 2449 views - 01/04/13 by Ashish Kuthiala in Articles

Are These "Staggering" Odds Really So Staggering?

I was supposed to take a holiday break, but Frédéric, professor in Tours, came back to me this morning with a tickling question. He asked me what were...

0 replies - 510 views - 01/04/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Convert OpenStreetMap Objects to KML with R

A geo-quick-tip: With the osmar and maptools package you can easily pull an OpenStreetMap object and convert it to KML, like below...

0 replies - 1188 views - 01/04/13 by Kay Cichini in Articles

"Application Release Automation" is a Terrible Term

The analysts agree, uDeploy and its competitors are “Application Release Automation” tools. We used the same term on our website.  Unfortunately,...

0 replies - 2074 views - 01/04/13 by Eric Minick in Articles

The Changing Face of Software Development

Change is inevitable and nowhere is it most apparent then in the software technology space. Surely we all adapt to these changes that are quite the norm in...

0 replies - 2527 views - 01/04/13 by Ganesh Ghag in Articles

What is Data Science?

The term “data science” started to appear a few years ago and has continually gained traction. So what is it?First of all, there is no such thing as...

0 replies - 2868 views - 01/03/13 by Mikio Braun in Articles

Mahout: Parallelising the Creation of DecisionTrees

A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post describing our use of Mahout random forests for the Kaggle Digit Recogniser...

0 replies - 2046 views - 01/03/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Here's How to Build an Optimal Hadoop Cluster

If you're ringing in the New Year by building a Hadoop cluster, then you might want to take a look at Atlantbh's detailed tutorial:Amount of data stored...

1 replies - 2614 views - 01/03/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

The Tracer Bullet Approach: An Example

A few weeks ago my former colleague Kief Morris wrote a blog post describing the tracer bullet approach he’s used to setup a continuous...

0 replies - 1958 views - 01/03/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Sed: Replacing Characters with a New Line

I’ve been playing around with writing some algorithms in both Ruby and Haskell and the latter wasn’t giving the correct result so I wanted to output an...

0 replies - 1777 views - 01/03/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

PWM and Shell for a LED

Controlling a LED is a great starter for any embedded project: simple and you immediately get feedback if it works  . Even better: as driving a LED...

0 replies - 1625 views - 01/03/13 by Erich Styger in Articles

Sendmail Using Nullmailer and a Gmail Account on a Linux Server

When you run VPS servers or other “low end” boxes it is common scenario need to setup a outgoing email mail transfer agent to get reports from cron jobs or...

0 replies - 3108 views - 01/02/13 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles

Finding 2013 in Pi

My youngest daughter asked me this morning whether you can find the number 2013 in the digits of pi. I said it must be possible, then wrote the following...

0 replies - 3861 views - 01/02/13 by John Cook in Articles

Big Data Predictions for 2013

If you just invested a lot of money in a Big Data solution from any of the traditional BI vendors (Teradata, IBM, Oracle, SAS, EMC, HP, etc.) then you are...

1 replies - 11435 views - 01/02/13 by Maarten Ectors in Articles

My 2012 Side Projects

ExtJS Sample codehttp://garysieling.com/blog/tag/extjsThroughout the year I wrote a couple dozen how-to samples of ExtJS code. This product seems to be poorly...

0 replies - 1815 views - 01/02/13 by Gary Sieling in Articles