Kaplan’s SAT On-Demand Course Wins 2011 EDDIE Award

January 28, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kaplan Test Prep’s SAT On Demand course has been recognized as the top high school “Test Tool Website” in ComputED’s 2011 Education Software Review Awards (EDDIE Awards). The EDDIE Awards, now in its 16th year, recognize innovative programs and websites that augment classroom curriculum and improve teacher productivity, providing parents and teachers with the technology to foster educational excellence. Winners are selected from around the world and judged on academic content, potential for broad classroom use, technical merit, subject approach and management system.

(Full Story: Kaplan’s SAT On-Demand Course Wins 2011 EDDIE Award)

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Workless – basic HTML5 base template filled with goodies

January 28, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Workless aims to help you by offering a basic HTML5 base template filled with goodies to get you up and running on every project you do as quickly as possible.

At it’s core Workless is simply a mashup of all the things I like about HTML5 Boilerplate and Twitter Bootstrap with some additional stuff which I tend to use on every project such as PrettyPhoto for lightboxes, Tipsy for tooltips, Prettify for styling and colorizing code and various other bits and pieces.

(Full Story: Workless – basic HTML5 base template filled with goodies)

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Java is dead? 9 million devs disagree | zeroturnaround.com

January 28, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Java is still pretty darn cool: consider the widespread applicability and excellent engineering behind the JVM platform, the clarity of syntax, the rich ecosystem of tools and libraries and the fact that Oracle says there are over 9 million Java developers out there

(Full Story: Java is dead? 9 million devs disagree | zeroturnaround.com)

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Text Mining as a Service : TextMinr

January 24, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Web Scraping
Context Search & Extraction
Name Recognition
Sentiment Analysis

(Full Story: Text Mining as a Service : TextMinr)

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Getting Started with Sublime Text 2 – opensoul.org

January 24, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

I cannot figure out a nice way to say this, so I will just say it: out of the box, Sublime is hideous. We are pompous programmers, so we cannot let that stand.

(Full Story: Getting Started with Sublime Text 2 – opensoul.org)

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Responsive Data Table Roundup | CSS-Tricks

January 24, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

The idea of the original was to abandon the grid layout of the table and make each cell it’s own line. Each of those lines is labeled with a pseudo element. This creates a much taller table, requiring more vertical scrolling, but does not require horizontal scrolling. It’s easier to browse the data without losing context of what’s what. The downside is that you might lose the context of data comparison, since you no longer see see cells of data right next to other cells of that type.

(Full Story: Responsive Data Table Roundup | CSS-Tricks)

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JRecord

January 24, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Guiding Principles

Method of reading / writing files should be the same no matter what the file format is.
Programmer should be shielded from the files format.
You should be able to edit files using the files description (Cobol Copybook, Xml or what ever).
Package should be flexible – easy to add new file formats or Record-Layout formats.

(Full Story: JRecord)

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A Field Guide to Parsing and Creating Flat Files Using the Humble Flatworm

January 24, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Flat files. Much as we live in an XML/SOAP/Web Services world, there’s still a ton of data being moved around between proprietary and legacy applications that consists of fixed length fields delimited by EOLs. Around about the time I wrote my 20th Java class who’s only purpose in life was to suck up a flat file, use String.substring to break it up into pieces, and then populate a bean with it, I decided there had to be a better way. This package represents the fruit of that frustration.

(Full Story: A Field Guide to Parsing and Creating Flat Files Using the Humble Flatworm)

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Why I Won’t Hire You – lifegacker

January 24, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

1) Show me you can get things done. This means you can accomplish challenging tasks quickly, come up to speed when necessary, go the extra mile if you have to, influence peers. You must be self-motivated.
2) Show me you are intelligent. I will ask you questions that are designed to make you think. Show me you can. Don’t confuse intelligence with education. I don’t care what kind of schooling you had, if you can’t think, no job. If you can think, and aren’t educated, no problem in my book, though I’ll probably look for more experience instead.
3) Show me how I fit into your vision. Truthfully, we’ll work best together if you think this job is the best place for you to be right now. I want to help you succeed in your career, let me.
4) Be highly skilled.
5) Be Passionate. If you are bored working in a similar job somewhere else, you’ll be bored with me. Period. I don’t want any of that.

(Full Story: Why I Won’t Hire You – lifegacker)

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Migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to MongoDB – Lessons Learned

January 24, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

At Wireclub Media we really love MongoDB. The migration process was at times arduous but ultimately it paid off handsomely. Our new system is faster, more resilient and it is based on a data model which is much more flexible – all thanks to MongoDB.

(Full Story: Migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to MongoDB – Lessons Learned)

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