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Ruby/Python: Constructing a taxonomy from an array using zip

As I mentioned in my previous blog post I’ve been hacking on a product taxonomy and I wanted to create a ‘CHILD’ relationship between a...

0 replies - 2541 views - 05/19/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Your First Ruby Gem

I live-coded a new gem called Ruby::Enum at NYC.rb on Tuesday. This library adds enum-like functionality to Ruby.  Here’s my checklist for creating a new...

0 replies - 1737 views - 05/18/13 by Daniel Doubrovkine in Articles

Monitoring Background Jobs in Ruby’s Resque

How to get visibility into an important component of any complex system: the messaging queueHere at AppNeta, we get to see a lot about how people build their...

0 replies - 1236 views - 05/17/13 by Tr Jordan in Articles

The Big List of 256 Programming Languages

Summer typically brings lots of vacation time for people. Instead of sitting around and being lazy, why not take the time to learn a new programming...

0 replies - 8118 views - 05/16/13 by Robert Diana in Articles

Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with TraceView in Under 10 Minutes

SourceTraceView by AppNeta provides deep performance monitoring of web applications. It gives you insight into your web application performance such as...

0 replies - 603 views - 05/02/13 by Peter Giacomo L... in Articles

Writing a REST client in Haskell

A few days ago I decided to buy some bitcoin. Then I noticed it fluctuates a lot despite a general upwards trend. Hmmm … if I just bought at the right moment...

0 replies - 3364 views - 04/26/13 by Swizec Teller in Articles

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/8)

John Resig on asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target If you didn’t get the message from our link roundup a few weeks ago when jQuery creator John Resig...

0 replies - 3323 views - 04/07/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Erlang: Noob to Production in 2 Months

James learned Erlang because he wanted to make some minor customizations to ejabberd. Before he knew it, he was putting thousands of lines of his own code in...

0 replies - 30459 views - 04/04/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/27)

How Many Hoops Does a Job Candidate Have to Jump Through? Here’s an interesting infographic for job seekers with notes to the recruiters to jump...

0 replies - 33529 views - 03/26/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

There Are Only 2 Roles of Code

All code can be classified into two distinct roles; code that does work (algorithms) and code that coordinates work (coordinators). The real complexity that...

5 replies - 24823 views - 03/21/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Python vs. Ruby in the Knapsack Problem

The latest algorithm that we had to code in Algorithms 2 was the Knapsack problem which is as follows:The knapsack problem or rucksack...

0 replies - 5662 views - 02/26/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...

0 replies - 304 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

ActuateOne for OEMs

"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...

0 replies - 344 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Weekly Poll: Development in 2013

For the finale in our "End of 2012" series, we want to know what the DZone audience thinks is going to be big in 2013. You'll get to see the instant results...

0 replies - 9446 views - 12/28/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Lecture by Sir Tony Hoare, Inventor of Quicksort

On Monday evening, 3rd December, 2012, I went along to the British Computer Society London in the Strand for a lecture from none other than Professor...

0 replies - 2826 views - 12/07/12 by Peter Pilgrim in Articles