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Eric Genesky05/09/13
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Getting Started with Neo4j

Neo Technology Senior Consultant Andreas Kollegger discussed Getting started with Neo4j, the world's leading NOSQL graph database.

James Sugrue05/09/13
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Thursday Code Puzzler: Solve The 15 Puzzle

Today the challenge is to write a program that can solve those sliding number puzzles.

Abby Fichtner05/09/13
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Does Your Personality Help You Get Shit Done?

Based on how we think about rules, we can roughly divide ourselves into 4 categories: Upholders, Questioners, Rebels, and Obligers. Self-awareness being a good thing, I thought I’d share and think about how these types effect our ability to get shit done.

Eric Genesky05/09/13
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From Cisco: OpenStack, SDN, and the Future of IaaS

This talk focuses on extending the Quantum network service as well as potential changes that are coming for delivery of network services and infrastructure management.

Paul Hammant05/09/13
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Interface Builder's Alternative Lisp timeline

ExperTelligence introduced IB in 1986. We took it up to neXt to show Steve Jobs – the rest is history. In 1988, Denison Bollay built a much more dynamic interface tool, in which the interface was fully modifiable as the program was running.

Johannes Brodwall05/09/13
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A jQuery Inspired Server Side View Model for Java

jQuery has changed the way people thing about view rendering. How could a similar approach look in a server side situation like Java?

Andrew Trice05/09/13
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Adobe's Exploration in Cloud- Enabled Hardware

Adobe announced two exciting new pieces of creative hardware: Project Mighty and Project Napoleon.

Gary Sieling05/09/13
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Extracting PDF Text with Scala

This example extracts the text contents of a PDF for use in other systems. This demonstrates some basic differences from Java: multi-line strings (hooray!), imports, primitive arrays, and what implementing an interface looks like.

Troy Hunt05/09/13
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Here’s why you can’t trust SSL logos on HTTP pages (even from SSL vendors)

Let’s check out exactly what’s going on here and you really need video to understand the fatal flaw in the logic of SSL logos coming down over HTTPS.

Eric Gregory05/09/13
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DIY NFC with Android and Arduino

Joe Desbonnet demonstrates a "Poor Man's NFC" proof-of-concept with an Arduino and an Android phone. The coolest part? This uses the phone's magnetometer to pull off the trick.

John Cook05/09/13
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Almost If and Only If

If you used the Perrin condition to test whether numbers less than a billion are prime, you would correctly identify all 50,847,534 primes as primes. But out of the 949,152,466 composite numbers, you would falsely report 17 of these as prime.

Niranjan Tallapalli05/09/13
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Hashmap Internal Implementation Analysis in Java

Full detailed analysis of java.util.HashMap’s implementation, its internals and working concepts.

Erich Styger05/08/13
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Lie to Me! or: Building a Polygraph

For this, we set up an experiment, which is very simple: Money has been stolen! We know that there are suspects, but we do not know who did it. The students have to build a Polygraph (Lie Detector) and have to test who is guilty or not.

Dan Kuebrich05/08/13
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The Taming of the Queue: Measuring the Impact of Request Queueing

Let’s explore how request queueing affects applications in the non-PaaS world and what you can do about it.

John Cook05/08/13
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Ramanujan Approximation for Circumference of an Ellipse

There’s no elementary formula for the circumference of an ellipse, but there is an elementary approximation that is extremely accurate.