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Links You Don't Want To Miss (Memorial Day Weekend Edition)

Look at this Hydrogen Atom’s Electron Orbit Specifically, that electron orbit as viewed through a quantum microscope. For the first time. So you’re...

0 replies - 1318 views - 05/25/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Data Monetization is the End Goal

The billion dollar question facing executives everywhere: How do I monetize my data? What small data or big data monetization strategies should I adopt? ...

0 replies - 725 views - 05/25/13 by Ravi Kalakota in Articles

Activities That Need Dedicated Hosting

If you are planning to launch a big business on the web, you would require higher specifications to host the website. This will include higher bandwidth,...

0 replies - 283 views - 05/24/13 by Rachael Jetkins in Articles

Be an Ambassador for Programming

You know how I keep banging on about attracting different types of people into programming?  You know how we say we need to get them young?Typical...

0 replies - 1690 views - 05/24/13 by Trisha Gee in Articles

My First A/B Test

A/B testing gets a lot of attention on Hacker News, inbound.org, and other forums, and appeals to me as a data analysis exercise. As a software engineer with a...

0 replies - 2543 views - 05/24/13 by Gary Sieling in Articles

Legacy Code Preservation: Language Incompatibility and Technology Evolution

It's important to address language or platform incompatibility as consequences of technology modernization. The reason why we have to do manual conversions of...

0 replies - 1590 views - 05/24/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

Mobile Device Fragmentation: It’s Only Going to Get Worse

As a mobile developer, you know you need to consider multiple devices when developing your app. But do you know just how many devices you need to support in...

0 replies - 1493 views - 05/24/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

R Quick Tip: Shutdown Windows after Script Has Finished

Quite often I have long procedures running and want to do this over night. However, my computer would still be running all night after the script has finished....

0 replies - 1254 views - 05/24/13 by Kay Cichini in Articles

Identity is the New Perimeter

It was Bill Gates who said that security should be based on "policy, not topology". It's a phrase which always stuck with me. Rather than basing security...

0 replies - 1317 views - 05/23/13 by Mark O'neill in Articles

Project Plugh: Open Source Log Analysis

Short AnswerI'm building an open source log manage/analysis tool that will offer folks what Splunk offers folks, except it's...

0 replies - 2885 views - 05/23/13 by David Pollak in Articles

Building Human Fault-Tolerant Systems

In this really excellent talk from Strata 2013, Twitter's Nathan Marz walks through the challenges and serious rewards of building systems that are resilient...

0 replies - 1686 views - 05/23/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

The Rise and Fall of Binomial Coefficients

When you expand (x + y)n, the coefficients increase then decrease. The largest coefficient is in the middle if n is even; it’s the two in...

0 replies - 1402 views - 05/23/13 by John Cook in Articles

Big Data Overview and Cassandra Plunge

Thanks everyone for coming out last night.  We plowed through a lot of material. I posted the slides here: Big data philly_jug from Brian...

0 replies - 1274 views - 05/23/13 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 23)

Always Be Coding - Put Yourself in the Best Position to Get an Engineering Job This post is a must-read for just about any developer.  Save it somewhere...

0 replies - 1875 views - 05/22/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Python _imaging Cannot Open Shared Object File

Okay so I'm using a 64 bit Linux and I was having a lot of trouble getting Calibre ebook tool to convert books into Kindle loving mobi format. I was getting a...

0 replies - 123 views - 05/22/13 by Col Wilson in Articles