- How to build a popularity algorithm you can be proud of. This blog post gives some background on some of the issues you may find when implementing a popularity algorithm, and then goes on into a comparison of the algorithms found on various sites such as Reddit, Hacker News, declicious, and other.
- PostgreSQL video galore, with links to recordings of pgCon09, SFPUG meetings, and pgDay San Jose talks.
- High Performance SQL with PostgreSQL 8.4 showcases some of the new features in PostgreSQL 8.4 such as row_count (rankings), recursion, and other that are helpful for ETL/data warehousing, reporting, and potentially other applications.
- Ensemble Learning. Excellent description on scholarpedia.
- (97) things every programmer should know, a work-in-progress list.
- Signs that you're a bad programmer, a general, extensive list.
- Delta Cloud, a RedHat service that abstracts out different cloud providers with a RESTful interface.
- The EU smells anti-trust in Oracle-Sun deal
- Kevin Mitnick's talks
- Unicorn, a back-end HTTP server for rack based ruby apps.
In case you missed it #24
Published 6 months ago
