Software Transactional Memory in Scala
The fact is that there are a lot of problems that are hard to solve in a purely-functional style. That’s not to say that no solution exists, but... more »
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Functional Purity in Scala
An important concept in functional programming is pure functions. This post describes how to possibly implement verification of function purity in the... more »
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5 Things to Do When You’re Stuck Developing Your Game
We’ve all had those moments, when you have no inspiration for creating another game, or when you don’t know what to do next in your current project.... more »
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Huge performance boost during iterations
At least for me! If you are familiar with some of these techniques (and especially if you are not), please help me gather information by pressing a... more »
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What's the Best Way to Handle Exceptions???
It seems, given my limited experience, that handling exceptions depends entirely on the context in which you are developing. As a fan of "rules" that... more »
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What's the Best Way to Handle Exceptions?
Trying to figure out the best ways to handle exceptions, which mostly seems to be context-sensitive. Checked/Unchecked? Swallow or re-throw? Are there... more »
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Have you ever wanted to monitor a website for changes?
Here is a free and handy tool to have around for anyone that has ever wanted to monitor when a web site has changed. This is a very small install and... more »
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The Rules of Productivity
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Topics covered include: * The idiocy of prolonged overtime * The unintuitive connection between doing more and making better products. ... more »
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Hibernate Sessions in Two Tier Rich Client Applications
An article about an aproach to hibernate session handling in two tier applications.
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Simple Tic-Tac-Toe AI in JavaScript
Demonstration of simple Tic-Tac-Toe AI written completely in Java Script using Minimax method. Source code provided :)
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MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 11: Augmenting Data Structures
This is the seventh post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lecture eleven,... more »
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Intel Thread Checker, Meet 20 Million LOC
Wondering how threading thrives in the real-world? The enormous and highly threaded code base at SAS is an example of an application that benefits... more »
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In a search of smooth rounded corners
Introduce a way to proximate smooth round corners with css and html codes
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What Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues can Teach us About Game Development Part 2
We all know who Benjamin Franklin is, one of the greatest Americans in history. His brilliant ideas have survived the centuries without any signs of... more »
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What Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues can Teach us About Game Development Part 1
We all know who Benjamin Franklin is, one of the greatest Americans in history. His brilliant ideas have survived the centuries without any signs of... more »
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8 things I wish I had been told before doing my start-up
After more than 10 start-ups, I decided to post a blog entry about the things that I have discovered over the years but I have not heard any one else... more »
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Tail Recursive Algorithms In Scala
Look into how tail recursive algorithms work in the Scala and Java language. Talks about the lack of automatic optimization in the JVM and how Scala... more »
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How to Shuffle an Array (Correctly)
Today at a career fair, an Amazon recruiter asked me how to shuffle an array. Sounds like an easy problem, right? It turns out a good majority of... more »
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Haskell
Simon Peyton-Jones tells us why he is most proud of Haskell's purity, type system and monads.
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JBoss on Rails
Bob McWhirter writes: "I’ve just pushed an ugly-but-working deployer targeting JBoss-AS 5.5.0.0CR2. "It’s not very consumable at this point, as... more »
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29 awesome websites to promote your web based applications
A list of 29 of the best sites where you can either promote your own web based applications, or find useful web based scripts for commercial or... more »
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Formal Language Processing in Scala, Part 4
This is the fourth part in a series of articles on formal language processing in Scala, focusing on parser combinators and language interpretation. I... more »
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The Newspeak Programming Language
A new language being developed by Gilad Bracha and a team. "Newspeak is a new programming language in the tradition of Self and Smalltalk. Newspeak... more »
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When to use rentacoder or elance for outsourcing a software project ?
Helpful guide whether or not to use outsourcing agency for your software development project.
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Cool Programmer Challenge: Figure Out A Football Algorithm for ESPN. Win a Pile of Money.
TopCoder is running a developer contest for ESPN to write an algorithm that predicts the outcomes of college football games for the sports network.... more »
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