According to an answer from here, artificial neural networks are obsoleted by Support Vector Machines, Gaussian Processes, generative and descriptive models. What is your opinion?
Hi
This is a java noob related question. Have been looking at Liferay portal technology, however I'm a dotnet (c# or vb) developer by day. Does anyone know if you can use the install of liferay to host dotnet code, not just by using the iFrame method of redirecting to a different site - that just sucks in myopinion
Alternatively is the saner option to go down the port my skills back to java?
Thanks
Mark
Recently I read some articles about some doubts about benefits of acceptance testing, because it is quite costly compared to what it brings. To form my own opinion, I would like to gather as much benefits of automated acceptance testing as possible. Can you help me?
Hi, there's this senior developer in my company that programs in C. I happen to be from functional background (ML, to be specific). This senior C programmer refuses to use abstractions because "abstraction is for lame programmers and _real_ programmers do not need it." I can not seem to convince him otherwise
Is it a problem with only this programmer or do all C (and other lower level language) programmers have this opinion that abstraction is for lame programmers?
I am developing asp.net mvc web app with MongoDB as the data storage.
I want to know others opinion about what drivers to use.
Should I use C# drivers which is supported by community?
Or, should I go to use Javascript driver which is supported by Mongo. How stable is javascript driver?
Thanks in advanced..
I store file’s attributes (size, update time…) in database. So the problem is how to manage transaction for database and file.
In jee environment, JTA is just able to manage database transaction.
In case, updating database is successful but file operation fails, should I write file-rollback method for this? Moreover, file operation in EJB container violates EJB spec.
What’s your opinion? Thank!
There are great .NET libraries and components. What is, for your opinion the most useful, effective, well wrriten open source C# library you've ever seen?
Mines, is the great Html Agility Pack.
Please post one library per answer.
I'm currently using and enjoying using the Flex MVC framework PureMVC. I have heard some good things about Cairngorm, which is supported by Adobe and has first-to-market momentum. And there is a new player called Mate, which has a good deal of buzz.
Has anyone tried two or three of these frameworks and formed an opinion?
Thanks!
Hi,
I am looking to setup Amazon EC/2 nodes on rails with Riak. I am looking to be able to sync the riak DBs and if the cluster gets a query, to be able to tell where the data lies and retrieve it quickly. In your opinion(s), is EC/2 fast enough between nodes to query a Riak DB, return the results, and get them back to the client in a timely manner? I am new to all of this, so please be kind :)
What is the best, up-to-date and comprehensive book on operating systems? Voice your opinion.
I have seen recommendations for Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems but the reviews saying the latest edition has many conceptual errors and numerous typos make me worry.
What are in your opinion the worst subjects of widespread ignorance amongst programmers, i.e. things that everyone who aspires to be a professional should know and take seriously, but don't?
Its common to observe listview developments for webforms but no common in mvc. on the other hand for mvc I´m only finding grid views displaying tabular data.
In your opinion which is the best List view solution for asp.net mvc?.
Edited:
ok, finally I found a possibility. Kazi Manzur wrote a listview using telerik controls. http://weblogs.asp.net/rashid/archive/2010/03/24/creating-rich-view-components-in-asp-net-mvc.aspx
What's the best language (in terms of simplicity, readability and code elegancy) in your opinion, to learn and work with metaprogramming?
I think metaprogramming is the "future of coding". Not saying that code will extinct, but we can see this scenario coming on new technologies.
In the field of Data Mining, is there a specific sub-discipline called 'Similarity'? If yes, what does it deal with. Any examples, links, references will be helpful.
Also, being new to the field, I would like the community opinion on how closely related Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence are. Are they synonyms, is one the subset of the other?
Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge.
Hey, I right now have a list of a struct that I made, I sort this list everytime I add a new object, using the std::list sort method.
I want to know what would be faster, using a std::multimap for this or std::list,
since I'm iterating the whole list every frame (I am making a game).
I would like to hear your opinion, for what should I use for this incident.
Following up on a debate that I was having with a colleague. What is the community's opinion on whether or not a section of code can be adequate with respect to decision coverage (all possible decisions have evaluated to true and false) but not block coverage, and if a section of code can be adequate with respect to condition coverage (each simple condition in a compound conditions has evaluated to true and false) but not block coverage. Thanks.
Hi,
After I read Bloch's discussion http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/04/bloch_java_future
I started to think about "Do I have to switch to scala for new web developements" or is java preferred in all cases. What is your opinion ?
Thanks,
We are working on a hiring application and need the ability to easily parse resumes. Before trying to build one, was wondering what resume parsing tools are available out there and what is the best one, in your opinion? We need to be able to parse both Word and TXT files.
As the title suggests:
What is your opinion on allowing administrators to update the SQL Connection string dynamically from the application versus just showing them the connection details in the application?
Because the database connection is so important and on a heavily used system the abrupt change to the connection seems like it could cause problems. However I would think displaying the server and catalog and whether the connection is using SSPI or SQL Auth could be helpful for administrators who don't like playing with .NET config files.
Thoughts?
I understand that this is highly specific to the concrete application, but I'm just wondering what's the general opinion, or at least some personal experiences on the issue.
I have an aversion towards the 'open session in view' pattern, so to avoid it, I'm thinking about simply fetching everything small eagerly, and using queries in the service layer to fetch larger stuff.
Has anyone used this and regretted it? And is there maybe some elegant solution to lazy loading in the view layer that I'm not aware of?
Hi all, can i have your opinion ?
I want to develop .net winform application and i want to use fully unbound grid.
Anybody ever use 10Tec iGrid.net and Xceed grid for .net ?
which one is better ?
Thank you.
I found at this Adobe tutorial a nice "RemoteService" class that creates a RemoteObject and contains the functions for handling the result and fault events. If I wanted to use this approach, how could I pass the data from the result handler to interfaces that modules from the main application could use?
I could put the RemoteService/RemoteObject in the modules, but (in my opinion- and I could be wrong) the best design seems to be using the remote calls in the main app and passing the data along to the modules.
I am trying to find out if there is an actual computational benefit to using lambda expressions in c++, namely "this code compiles/runs faster/slower because we use lambda expressions" OR is it just a neat development perk open for abuse by poor coders trying to look cool?
Thanks.
PS. I understand this question may seem subjective but i would much appreciate the opinion of the community on this matter.
Hi all,
A Grails app I'm working on is becoming pretty big, and it would be good to refactor it into several modules, so that we don't have to redeploy the whole thing every time.
In your opinion, what is the best practice to split a Grails app in several modules?
In particular I'd like to create a package of domain classes + relevant services and use it in the app as a module. Is this possible? Is it possible to do it with plugins?
Cheers,
Mulone
i have never seen the usecase for preincrement and postincrement in actual code.
The only place i see them most often are puzzles.
Myopinion
is, it introduces more confusion rather than being useful.
is there any real use case scenario for this
can't this can be done by using +=
y = x++
y = x
x += 1