Head on over to the Cloudera blog to see my post about improving MapReduce performance with graphs on a Boggle roll. This will give you all of the explanation and code you need to try things...
I haven’t read a more poignant, thoughtful, and truthful E-mail to a CEO than this one. RIM has been on a downward spiral for years now and this Research in Motion employee really nails why it is happening to RIM. Although it addresses the problems at RIM, the...
There are a lot of sites showing how to brand yourself, but few of them show the technical side of personal branding. This post will show how to do it. There are two general ways to start a personal branding site. The first is to sign up with a blogging site. You have...
Even before Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems, Java was at some serious crossroads. For some brief history, Oracle bought Sun in January of 2010. The move led to questions of why Oracle would buy Sun. The answer has come in the form of lawsuits and the...
With one of this month’s meeting topics being improving productivity with Visual Studio 2010, I wanted to share some productivity tips that work in any IDE on Linux and Windows. One of my basic productivity premises is to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as...
A little while ago a program called Haystack made news about its ability to hide data from their censors. The reporter’s description of how the program worked didn’t sound possible and I just assumed the reporters got it wrong. It turns out I was right....
