whitepaper

Anyone have a link to a technical discussion of anything akin to the Facebook news feed system?

I'm looking for a presentation, PDF, blog post, or whitepaper discussing the technical details of how to filter down and display massive amounts of information for individual users in an intelligent (possibly machine learning) kind of way. I've had coworkers hear presentations on the Facebook news feed but I can't find anything published...

Where to look for white papers on software development?

I'm interested on following the formal research on universities and academia, related to software development, and I wonder if anyone knows some centralized rss feed (blogs maybe) , mailing list, newsgroup or anything that keeps updating on the subject. I want to keep up to date on the field and discover sources, so if you have only one...

Are there any books on the principles behind ORMs?

There are a few books about specific ORM products such as Hibernate or Linq to SQL, but I would be quite interested in any material on the more general principles, history etc of ORM. Do you know of any books, white papers, well researched blog posts etc on this topic? Thanks /Erik ...

Technical White paper: How to write one

Folks, What is the best way to go about researching and presenting for a technical whitepaper? I dont mean the format, overview, sections and such stuff. I've never written one - and I wonder if a white paper needs to be very very generic (conceptual) or specific (for instance favouring a particular tool/methodology) And if your ans...

White papers on logging.

I am planning to create a logging framework for Java/J2EE from scratch.In this regard I want some white papers on common industry logging standards for reference.Any pointers to the same are appreciated. ...

How are programming-related papers published?

Hi, I've been working on implementing code from papers such as The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator. This has kind of got me wondering now... How do these guys get these papers published? The closest I've gotten in my search for this answer is the IETF's RFCs, but what if your paper doesn't discuss an Internet-...