I received a press release announcing that REvolution Computing, a provider of software and support for the open source “R” statistical programming language had appointed R co-creator, Robert Gentleman, to its board of directors. The press release was a great impetus for me to look at R again.
For background about R, Ashlee Vance wrote:
A Garbage Collector must do two things:-
1.Detect garbage objects
2.Deallocate the memory of garbage objects and make it available for the program.
There are four approaches that a garbage collector may adopt to detect the garbage objects. Continue Reading »
Java includes a special Three-way(Ternary) operator that can replace certain types of if-then-else statements.These statements include assignment when certain conditions are fulfilled.This operator is ” ? “.The working of ” ? ” operator is similar as in C,C++ and C#.The ” ? ” operator at first look might seem confusing but it is extremely useful in particular conditions when mastered. Continue Reading »
This month marks the first anniversary of when my startup, M-Dot Network, started building our enterprise solution on Amazon’s cloud computing platform. So as I reflect on a year that went by in a blur, I decided to share my thoughts on what I learned about cloud computing.
I have worked in the IT field for almost 10 years. One of the most controversial topics among most of the people I have worked with is whether or not certifications should expire. I have heard many arguments for and against this. Mostly, the argument of "We need our employees to keep up with new technology and not just rest on what they know." As many of you know, those of us in the IT field have strong opinions and don’t change them easily.
Here are several excerpts from an article about what a panel of leading tech vendors had to say about the future of social networking tools at the Collaborate 2.0 Conference, Tech Giants Move Toward Social Networks:
As the Facebook generation becomes a bigger part of the enterprise, companies face the challenge of implementing increasingly familiar social network technologies in concert with legacy systems.
Java programming language is very vast programming language,even I must say each and every programming language is very vast. Understanding Java programming language and applying its concept needs the knowledge and skills of Java programming language. I have gone through various important questions during my ride to SCJP. So I have prepared a list of such important questions of Java programming language which will help you not only in understanding the topic but also If you are preparing for SCJP they will be helpful. Continue Reading »
Reading Michael Tiemann’s notes for his Open World Forum speech I can’t help but think that he’s attributing a point of value to open source that is much more aligned to open standards based software.
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