原创 The Importance of Excel

I spent the past two days at a financial regulation conference in Washington (where I saw more BlackBerries than I ha

原创 How to create an EMF model from a Java application ?

Is it possible to reuse EMF-based tools with Java source code ? Yes if you have your Java source code translated into

原创 From Galileo to Google: How Big Data Illuminates Human Culture

Given my longtime fascination with the so-termed digital humanities and with data visualization, and my occasional da

原创 Installing Memcached for PHP 5.3 on Windows 7

First off, all credits go to this guy. I’m just listing the steps on how I did it in Windows 7 with PHP 5.3. Also, I t

原创 Speeding up Python (NumPy, Cython, and Weave)

The high-level nature of Python makes it very easy to program, read, and reason about code. Many programmers report bei

原创 C++/Qt vs Java

From my point of view, this article is useful for to realize possible risks.Please find extracts from it below. The or

原创 Yet another OpenJDK on Windows Build Instruction

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原创 Opening Up a Web Browser with Python

Start by importing webbrowser: 1 importwebbrowser Next, simply call the webbrowser.open(url,new=0,) func

原创 11 Basic Linux Interview Questions and Answers

A new article in this section (Linux Interview) will be posted on every weekend. The initiative taken by Tecmint is f

原创 HOW TO ADD A NEW A WIDGET AREA TO YOUR WORDPRESS THEME

Despite the vast array of choice of themes in WordPress, a discerning webmaster will rarely find one that precisely su

原创 WORDPRESS HIDDEN GEMS: CHECKED(), SELECTED(), AND DISABLED()

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原创 C++ TR1: array VS 2008 Bug

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原创 MySQL File System Enumeration – UPDATED

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原创 Python API for XML/SWF Charts (Flash Graphing)

I had a project where I was designing a statistics reporting site, to track production stats. I wanted to have really

原创 Overriding Java methods in Groovy for unit testing

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with writing unit tests in Groovy to test our Java code at Orbitz. Groovy provides man