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Krishna Kumar07/26/12
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Hiring Programmers

99+% of good programmers are not actively looking for a job. 99+% of the rest don’t know about your company. Of those who know, many won’t apply at your company. So your pool of potential employees is not a true representation of the overall programmer supply.

Sasha Goldshtein07/26/12
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Page Heap: A Useful Diagnostic Option for Windows Apps.

When Page Heap is enabled, each heap allocation is placed on the end of a page boundary, and the subsequent page is marked as PAGE_NOACCESS.

Ravi Kalakota07/26/12
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The Vendor Landscape of BI and Analytics

Ravi Kalakota describes the various BI vendor types with examples to match.

John Esposito07/26/12
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From Structured to Usefully Structured: How ABBYY's FlexiCapture Engine Learns from Humans and Machines

In a previous article we touched briefly on an OCR/ICR engine's movement from sight to meaning. There 'meaning' was considered very broadly: barcodes contain different information than text-blocks, semantic subsections of text-blocks are usually set apart by headings, and so forth. In this article we'll focus on one particular kind of data-extraction: the kind that starts with carefully laid-out physical documents.

Thibault Delor07/26/12
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Java SE 11: Moving Java Forward – Part 2

This series of articles presents how, in my opinion, the java language should evolve and therefore remain a top-choice language. It also presents some features, sometimes already existing in another language, that I love but cannot (or should never) be part of Java for reasons I will explain.

Austin Kotlus07/25/12
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Pledging 350 Hours to Save Project Jigsaw for Java 8

This blog post marks the beginning of my mission to save Project Jigsaw...

Martin Fowler07/25/12
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Martin Fowler: Snowflake Servers

Hosted applications need to be upgraded regularly. Configuration changes are regularly needed to tweak the environment so that it runs efficiently and communicates properly with other systems. This requires some mix of command-line invocations, jumping between GUI screens, and editing text files. The result is a unique snowflake - good for a ski resort, bad for a data center.

Rob Williams07/25/12
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Bootstrap Über Alles

Ok, the award for the best new technology, that should have shown up a freaking long time ago, goes to Twitter Bootstrap.

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis07/25/12
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How to Refactor Tornado Code with gen.engine

Sometimes writing callback-style asynchronous code with Tornado is a pain. But the real hurt comes when you want to refactor your async code into reusable subroutines.

Tim O'brien07/25/12
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Learning the Nexus REST API: Read the Docs or Fire Up a Browser

When you use Nexus, it is more than a UI. It is a collection of services available for you to automate. With these services you can integrate Nexus in whatever workflow makes sense for you.

Martin Thompson07/25/12
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Getting C/C++ Performance from Java Object Serialisation

Do you ever wish you could turn a Java object into a stream of bytes as fast as it can be done in a native language like C++?

Max De Marzi07/25/12
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My Entry for the HCIR Challenge

Max De Marzi provides an in-depth description of his recent entry into the HCIR challenge; luckily he's already created a similar project on getvouched.com

Eric Silva07/25/12
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Introducing ACES: A Secure, Web-Bases SaaS for Clinical Teams

ACES (Access Control Execution System) has been purpose-built to address the operational complexities inherent in adaptive design and pivotal clinical trials.

Ricci Gian Maria07/25/12
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Poor Man DDD

Some of the grounding technical concepts of DDD can be inserted in legacy applications built with standard techniques to bring some of the advantages of DDD in existing projects.