I'm looking for an algorithm to determine ratings or tags for items when my own input is giving the user random sets of these items and letting them tell me which ratings or tags are within that set. For example, they might say if a set of images contains any "good" photos and out of several random sets and I then want to determine which...
Are there any real stories about computer crime? I'm talking about stuff like in "Office Space", stealing fractions of pennies a couple of million times... Like that, only actual events. And not Captain Crunch, please, making phone calls for free does not count. No, actual robberies or super smart frauds that depended on computer technol...
I have to say that I am really missing Query Analyzer now that the functionality has been integrated into the much heavier SQL Management Studio provided with SQL Server 2005/2008. I was looking for suggestions for a cheap/free and lightweight querying IDE with functionality similar to query analyzer so I don't have to wait for this big ...
Hi All, I have found relational database options, but I want to see if there are any faster non-relational databases that could do better. I am storing up to 32 GB of these records which contain 3 ints, a byte[8] array (or binary(8)), and a double. I will RARELY RARELY query the database, but I need to make sure that if I do read fr...
I'd like to give my boyfriend a taste of programming. If it was up to me, I'd teach Scheme, Haskell or F# but since he'd rather learn something that can be useful in his job as a fiscal consultant, i.e. programming Excel. What are the options for programming Excel? Which one would you recommend for someone who's just learning to program...
I am looking for books that present interesting software system at the source code level. One such book which I loved is Building Problem Solvers. It presents a series of truth-maintenance systems written in Common Lisp. The book reads like an insightful and well-presented commentary of the code. Can you recommend any other books in this...
What's your favorite project-based book or website? I really like The Elements of Computing Systems. This book will show you how to build a computing system from the ground up. In the process, you learn about combinatorial & sequential logic, ALU & memory chips, CPU & von Neumann architecture, machine & assembly language, assemblers, vi...
We've trying to separate a big code base into logical modules. I would like some recommendations for tools as well as whatever experiences you might have had with this sort of thing. The application consists of a server WAR and several rich-clients distributed in JARs. The trouble is that it's all in one big, hairy code base, one sourc...
I'm interested in measuring and improving (where necessary) my team's SQL-92 skills. Can anyone recommend an appropriate on-line course and/or examination? Ideally it would be vendor-neutral, but it could also be MSSQL/Oracle specific, as long as the proprietary bits were flagged as such. ...
Are there any good books out there on the topic of using Amazon Web Services with good content related to running windows web applications and SQL Server on Amazon's cloud platform? I am most interested in books that go into some detail about configuration and best practices regarding running SQL Server, IIS, and AD on EC2. ...
We got a lot of untested code but we want to change this, so we started writing unit and Selenium tests. But of course these tests have to be run sometimes. I know it's possible to run tests automatically. Do you know good pratice-oriented books or websites dealing with this problem? Thanks for any recommendations! ...
I have a selection of relatives that want to buy me Christmas presents, sadly I can think of only 3 things that I really need (I'm a pretty content person). However, it occurred to me that I want to learn Ruby a little at some point and getting a Dead tree version of a Ruby book would be useful for that. As such I'm looking for suggest...
In order to continue my dive into reading real code, I'd like to read and understand the source code of an actual in-use compiler. Is there one that you think is particularly well-written, elegant, and perhaps, still relatively small? Any suggestions? Any experiences? Resolution: I've decided to read the Lua source code. I've been bookm...
I want to know how to get the best of Solr. Which books, tutorials, reference sites should I read to learn about it? Thanks. ...
I've bought "Programming Ruby" from Pragmatic Programmers (still in beta), but friends say that "The Ruby Way" is much better. Should I buy it or wait for Ruby 1.9 books? ...
Hey everyone, I'm currently using PSPAD as my main editor, but I'm looking to get something more full featured. I code in PHP, but occasionally modify HTML and CSS code too. I am looking for: Directly editing a file over FTP - must sync / commit changes on save - NOT manual file transfer / update. This is a must for me. Adjust conte...
I'm looking for an ASP.NET library or control (preferably in C#) to create workflow diagrams from business processes. Edit: To clarify, the necessary info (task, holder, status, etc.) is stored in a database, and I just want to give the user the ability to view a workflow diagram of the process. I have come across the following commerc...
In reference to my other question, I'm looking for a good php-based ACL class that I can integrate into ExpressionEngine to get better support for member access control. So far I'm looking at the Zend Framework ACL class. Is anyone using anything else they recommend? Thanks! ...
The CherryPy web server can supposedly be deployed in the Google App Engine. Who has done it, and what was the experience like? What special effort was required (configuration, etc.)? Would you recommend it to others? ...
The book Programming Collective Intelligence presents a technique for computing similar links/users based on the distance between the links/users in a huge metric space (user x bookmarked this link / link x was bookmarked by this user). What other techniques have been developed for recommendation engines? ...