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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 - 2526 views - 05/22/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Damn Cool Cardinality Estimation

Suppose you have a very large dataset - far too large to hold in memory - with duplicate entries. You want to know how many duplicate entries, but your data...

2 replies - 6217 views - 05/22/13 by Nick Johnson in Articles

A Visit to the Valley

At the end of April, Leo and I went on a one week trip to the Valley. Over the years, we had built up a number of connections in the Valley and we...

0 replies - 1973 views - 05/22/13 by Mikio Braun in Articles

Getting Teams to Deliver Predictably

As recently as this week, I’ve been involved in conversations with customers about how we can help make their teams deliver more predictably.  How can...

0 replies - 2804 views - 05/22/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles

Escape Process’ Death Valley, or How to Tell a Cat From a Washing Machine

Ken Robinson recently delivered yet another great talk on the state of American education.  He pointed out that countries that take a more organic...

0 replies - 2120 views - 05/22/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 21)

DDoSaaS Miiiight Be a Little Sketchy Surprise! If you PayPal someone to conduct a DDoS attack, things might get a little shady. Brian Krebs investigates...

0 replies - 4857 views - 05/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Quantifying Scientific Consensus, Zombies in R, and More Data Links

Several posts and articles, this week, starting with this nice“Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific...

0 replies - 1470 views - 05/21/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

Extreme Syntax

In his book Let Over Lambda, Doug Hoyte saysLisp is the result of taking syntax away, Perl is the result of taking syntax all the way.Lisp practically has...

0 replies - 2350 views - 05/18/13 by John Cook in Articles

How to Cross the Chasm

Last week I had the good fortune of meeting and speaking with Geoffrey Moore, author of the widely acclaimed books Crossing the...

0 replies - 3298 views - 05/17/13 by Chris Spagnuolo in Articles

The Ship Show: Does Your Entire Team Have to Git It?

For episode 20, we tackle the topic of tooling proficiency on your release engineering, ops, and development teams, specifically through the lens of version...

0 replies - 3150 views - 05/16/13 by Paul Reed in Articles

Dev of the Week: Michael Sahota

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...

0 replies - 4191 views - 05/15/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (5/15)

Mazes, AI, and PathfindingTwo ways through a maze, or more specifically, two pathfinding solutions. One allows the robot to see the entire maze, including...

0 replies - 3298 views - 05/15/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Damn Cool Secure Permutations with Block Ciphers

To start, I'm assuming you know what a permutation is - basically a shuffling of a sequence of items in a particular order. A permutation of the...

0 replies - 5033 views - 05/14/13 by Nick Johnson in Articles

How to Stand Out at Work: 10 Tips for Programmers (Part 1)

I’ve been in the IT industry for almost 8 years working in 4 different companies. During this time I had a chance to work with a couple of dozens of...

6 replies - 19464 views - 05/10/13 by Yuriy Lopotun in Articles

Exporting and Sharing Sublime Text Configuration

Sublime Text is a very powerful and popular text editor. But it’s more than a text editor… it’s an ecosystem of programmer’s tools where you can...

0 replies - 2506 views - 05/09/13 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles