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Application Developer View: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL
I reluctantly started to write this post some 6 months ago. As a application developer my knowledge of the internals of DBMS design was (and still is) very limited. It is one thing to work with a DBMS at development and quite another to keep it running as part of …
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Functional Conference: Random Notes...
The first 'Functional Conference' happened in Bangalore between Oct 9-11. I had been keenly looking forward to it. This is a quick post on the sessions I attended and the conference itself. As the lineup of speakers and topics shaped up in the buildup to the conference on their website …
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Experiments with XML XPath libraries on JVM
These days I mostly program in Scala. Few weeks ago I ran into a problem to search for data within fairly large XMLs. XPath and XQuery are the standard technologies to query XML's. JVM programmers have a choice of multiple libraries to choose from when it comes to XPath. One …
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Running Machine-Learning Assignments on my Laptop's Spark Cluster
The latest offering of Coursera's popular course on Machine Learning by Andrew Ng started in the first week of March. The course requires Matlab's Octave to be used to solve the assignments. Apart from trying to solve the problems in Octave, I decided to solve the assignments in the programming …
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Code Retreat
Last Saturday I happened to go to my first code retreat. Hosted by Multunus and conducted by the master programmer Venkat Subramaniam, it was a very learnful experience. Here's a sneak-peek of the event from my eyes. The Format Code retreats are day long coding fests. Programmers take a crack …