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Some Java based AI Frameworks: Encog, JavaML, Weka
While working through I am working through Programming Collection Intelligence I found myself sending a lot of time translating the Python code to java, being typically impatient at ...
Setting up and playing with Apache Solr on Tomcat
A while back a had a little time to play with Solr, and was instantly blown away by the performance we could achieve on some of our bigger datasets. Here is some of my initial setup ...
JBoss Drools – Getting started
This post will be about me getting to grips with JBoss Drools. The reasoning behind it is: SAP bought out my company’s current rules engine and Drools is one alternative we will ...
Spring 3, Spring Web Services 2 & LDAP Security
This year started on a good note, another one of those “the deadline won’t change” / “skip all the red tape” / “Wild West” type of projects ...
The Pragmatic Programmer – Review / Summary Notes.
I recently finished The Pragmatic Programmer, to be completely honest this had been the 3rd attempt to read it, although the book is good and well worth the read, I had unfortunetly ...
The top 9+7 things every programmer or architect should know
I recently finished 97 Things every programmer should know. Well to be completely honest I did skim over a couple of the 97, but all and all this was a very nice compilation of thoughts ...
Java Compression
In a recent project, we had to do something I had personally never really had to look at; Compression. We needed to take a couple files and images, zip them up and make them available ...
The simple Big-O Notation Post
Our JCG partner Brian Du Preez has posted an explanatory article on his blog, Zen in the art of IT, concerning the Big-O notation. The Big-O notation is used for describing ...
Design Patterns in the JDK
Brian Du Preez, our JCG partner from Zen in the art of IT has made a very fine job of collecting the most common design patterns found in the JDK. The pattern list is indeed ...
Selecting a new programming language to learn
Looking to start learning a programming language besides Java? Our JCG partner Brian Du Preez from Zen in the art of IT provides a relatively extensive analysis on the factors ...
