Recent Weblog Entries
Performance: LINQ to XML vs XmlDocument vs XmlReader
.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
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font-size: small;
color: black;
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Joe's Blog
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.NET
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2008-05-01 11:31:58.0
What Happens To Lucene When You Go Big... Part 1
My current project has some unique
searching requirements.
Requirements
Fuzzy searching is a must
(S...
aaron mccurry
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General
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2008-04-30 13:30:00.0
Column Oriented Databases
What is it?
A column
oriented database (or a column store database) is a database that
stores it's informat...
aaron mccurry
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General
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2008-04-30 12:00:00.0
ProjectEuler problem 1 in C, Groovy, Lisp, Perl, Python, and Ruby
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Updated 2008-05-02: new Python implementation using sum() -- thanks Pete!
My blog post about the first problem in ...
Seth Schroeder
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Python
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2008-04-29 08:37:50.0
Groovier Processing
Introduction
Processing is a basically a proprietary Java-like language compiled into Java bytecode and used for ge...
Chris Rohr
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Java
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2008-04-26 00:00:00.0
Passing Params to a New Window with JSF
Here's what I wanted to accomplish:
A user performs a search. The user sees a list of results. The user clicks o...
Michael Bevels
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General
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2008-04-23 14:35:33.0
Addition to scala pattern matching
I recently posted a blog post about scala pattern matching . It is intended to be an introduction to pattern matching ...
Bryan Weber
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Scala
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2008-04-22 17:51:25.0
Dynamic Trees in JSF
A JSF project that I've been working on required a dynamic tree. Not just a tree that loads dynamically, but a tree tha...
Michael Bevels
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General
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2008-04-22 14:15:23.0
Nice, Python.
Edit 2008-04-29: more and better results available here .
I've been waffling about glancing at Python. It comes off a...
Seth Schroeder
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Python
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2008-04-21 23:26:37.0
Data Visualization and Processing
I've been interested in data visualization for a long time now, probably because I have backgrounds in both programming ...
John Cato
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General
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2008-04-17 07:58:52.0
Add a little Velocity to the speed of those Word exports
In a few of the corporate environments I've been privileged to be a developer within, I have been exposed to the ever po...
Christopher Lee
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Java
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2008-04-14 18:30:48.0
What Not To Show a User
Quick rule of thumb: Don't show users cryptic error messages. This one was an error I recently received at a major airli...
Scott Leberknight
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General
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2008-04-12 16:00:48.0
Improving CSS
pre {
font-size:80%;
}
Of the trinity of web technologies, CSS is by far the worst at this stage. It's a langua...
Jason Harwig
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CSS
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2008-04-10 16:57:43.0
Cocoa Bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch
Last week I went to the Cocoa Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch . It was held outside Atlanta at the Historic Banning M...
Scott Leberknight
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General
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2008-04-10 11:17:12.0
Scala Pattern Matching
Scala has pattern matching... so what's the big deal? If you are a Java developer the power of pattern matching will pr...
Bryan Weber
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Scala
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2008-04-03 23:06:49.0
Good article about character encodings.
I hate blogs that are just links to other blogs, but here's an article about character encodings that everyone should ta...
John Cato
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General
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2008-03-31 08:39:47.0
Expression Trees: Why LINQ to SQL is Better than NHibernate
In my last post I described how the Where()
function works for LINQ to Objects via extension methods and the yie...
Lee Richardson
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.Net
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2008-03-27 16:59:40.0
JUnit4 Tests in Groovy
On my current (Java-based) project we now write all new unit tests in Groovy, though there are a lot of legacy Java test...
Scott Leberknight
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General
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2008-03-21 09:03:10.0
Wackiness With String, GString, and Equality in Groovy
We ran into this one today while writing a Groovy unit test. Check out the following GroovyShell session:
.code {...
Scott Leberknight
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Groovy
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2008-03-20 14:44:18.0
Dumping the Maven Groovy Plugin
On my current project we are using Maven2 (yeah, yeah I know) which I become less and less happy with over time. That's ...
Scott Leberknight
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Groovy
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2008-03-19 16:07:51.0