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Dev of the Week: Zac Gery

Every week, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community here and in our newsletter, catching up to find out what they're working on...

3 replies - 4212 views - 06/19/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

NoFlo: Two Years of Flow-Based Programming

NoFlo — the flow-based programming system I started — is now two years old. I pushed the first commits to GitHub on June 5th 2011 from Hacker Dojo in...

0 replies - 4666 views - 06/18/13 by Henri Bergius in Articles

When is a Dynamic Language Good?

Yep… I'm exploring the other sideI'm a dyed in the wool static language guy. I used C++ for logic code in Mesa, even though the UI was in...

1 replies - 3970 views - 06/12/13 by David Pollak in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Genetic Algorithms, Pt. 2 - Making It Run

We’re going to do something that initially seemed hard to me. Given a formula let’s find the formula for its indefinite integral. In this previous post I...

0 replies - 6141 views - 06/11/13 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

The Weight of Code

From Bjorn Freeman-Benson’s talk Airplanes, Spaceships, and Missiles: Engineering Lessons from Famous Projects Bjorn is discussing the ferrite core...

0 replies - 2014 views - 06/11/13 by John Cook in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (June 7)

Data through a PRISM  Yesterday the Guardian revealed that the US National Security Agency draws huge volumes of telecommunications metadata from...

0 replies - 4736 views - 06/07/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Finding Sum-Free Subsets

A set of integers is called sum-free if no element of the set is the sum of any other pair of elements in the set. For example, {1, 10, 100} is...

0 replies - 4614 views - 06/04/13 by John Cook in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (June 3)

Building an underground railroad Incredible pictures from a massive infrastructure project deep underneath New York. Joss Whedon’s commencement...

0 replies - 2978 views - 06/03/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Solr 4.2: Index Structure Reading API

With the release of Solr 4.2 we’ve got the possibility to use the HTTP protocol to get information about Solr index structure. Of course, if one wanted to do...

0 replies - 4256 views - 06/03/13 by Rafał Kuć in Articles

Infrastructure as Code - A Comprehensive Overview

I've been tracking infrastructure as code for a few years now. Over the years it has gotten closer to real code. Close, but no cigar yet......

0 replies - 2985 views - 05/27/13 by Patrick Debois in Articles

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 - 4630 views - 05/25/13 by Eric Gregory 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 - 2511 views - 05/24/13 by Trisha Gee 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 - 1988 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 - 3855 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 - 2816 views - 05/23/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles