In my quest to learn Groovy and Grails I have been using Sublime because that is what I am familiar with. I have also been testing out IntelliJ on the recommendation from almost everyone. I have to agree that it is pretty darn awesome and I want to look at one smaller, but pretty cool feature today.
From: Dan Vega
Another one of the great operators that more and more languages support is their ternary operator.
From: Dan Vega
Groovy collections vs My Current Thought Process
From: Dan Vega
I have been a ColdFusion developer since before I can remember.
From: Dan Vega
I have been using Hibernate for a couple years now and I love it.
From: Dan Vega
As a little bit of a Hibernate veteran at this point I know the value of logging when it comes to debugging issues.
From: Dan Vega
A message I posted on the Grails User List spawned another pretty interesting conversation that I would like to share with you.
From: Dan Vega
The more years I get under my belt as a programmer the more I appreciate the smaller things a language has to offer.
From: Dan Vega
I just answered a Quora question about what, if any, are the differences in the algorithms that are behind recommendations for music and movies.
From: Erik Bernhardsson
Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D. (Looks a little weird in the iframe but check out the link). It's based on a LDA model with 200 topics, so the artists tend to stick to clusters where each cluster is a topic.
From: Erik Bernhardsson
I've turned into a lazy bastard and I'm just posting presentations on this blog, but here's one from Rohan Singh at Spotify talking about the backend infrastructure of the Discover page.
From: Erik Bernhardsson
By now most should know that a new CF10 version of the classic Web Application Construction Kit (or WACK) series was released some months ago: Adobe ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit: ColdFusion 10 Enhancements and Improvements But some may not have known who the contributors were, becau...
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations. Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
From: Erik Bernhardsson
I thought this article about the company culture at HubSpot is kind of funny. “HubSpot's Awesome Presentation Shows how to Create a 21st Century Culture”. Just FYI: You're not different. You're a bunch of white hipsters aged 25-30 dressed up in the same theme.
From: Erik Bernhardsson
