Software Development
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The Index You’ve Added is Useless. Why?
Recently, at the office: Bob: I’ve looked into that slow query you’ve told me about yesterday, Alice. I’ve added the…
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Cheating on the N Queens benchmark
Many Solver distributions include an N Queens example, in which n queens need to be placed on a n*n sized…
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Test coverage using testing tools and methods
Overview: To define “Test coverage” we have to talk about the topics stated below: The purpose of test coverage. Different…
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The Low Quality of Scientific Code
Recently I’ve been trying to get a bit into music theory, machine learning, computational linguistics, so I ended up looking…
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Lawyers and Developers, not so different
Really I have been developing software professionally since 1978. I went to law school (BU Law ’91). I think that…
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Oracle v. Google, My Sweet Lord
He’s not So Fine I wrote about how to mitigate the disaster that is the appeal courts’s decision in Oracle…
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How to import CSV data into PostgreSQL
Introduction Many database servers support CSV data transfers and this post will show one way you can import CSV files…
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Micro Services the easy way with Fabric8
Micro Services have received a lot of discussion of late. While its easy to argue the exact meaning of the term;…
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Tracking Exceptions – Part 6 – Building an Executable Jar
If you’ve read the previous five blogs in this series, you’ll know that I’ve been building a Spring application that…
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