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  • Integral Image for Faster Image Processing Recently, I was looking into computer vision related technologies.  One of the interesting techniques is known as the "integral image" which can enable more advanced techniques, most notably the Viola-Jones... »

    Tom Neumark | Java | November 27, 2011 9:29 PM

  • Promoting Software Craftsmanship Many people have tried to define software craftsmanship. Corey Haines likes to talk about being positive as part of your profession. Avdi Grimm, in the Confident Code talk he's been giving, talks similarly about... »

    Andrew Wagner | November 18, 2011 1:09 PM

  • Danger in the shadows of ruby... Consider this seemingly innocuous bit of code, presumably on a User class somewhere: def manager manager = User.ceo User.all_managers.each do |manager| return manager if self.reports_to?(manager) end return manager end There... »

    Andrew Wagner | July 14, 2011 4:40 PM

  • Get Your Hands Dirty Developers, how confident are you that you could go from an empty virtual machine and an OS installation DVD, to a fully-functioning instance of your application? Before you laugh it... »

    Frank Showalter | June 6, 2011 11:12 AM

  • Lucene Thrift and Ruby This post is going to demonstrate thrift usage by searching a Lucene index from Ruby. Thrift In a Nutshell Essentially thrift is a serialization and RPC framework that allows... »

    Bill Bejeck | Java, Lucene, Ruby | May 18, 2011 11:38 PM

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