JavaScript Profiling: HTML5 Canvas

Learn to use JavaScript performance profilers, with an HTML5 Canvas example.

Maven: Great Idea, Poor Implementation

Has Maven lived up to its promises?  You decide after reading Kief Morris' 3 part review of Maven.

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Windows Phone / SQL Server Compact Resources List

This blog post collects links to relevant blog posts and articles about Windows Phone support for SQL Server Compact. You can also follow me on Twitter...

0 replies - 355 views - 01/27/12 by Erik Jensen in Articles

Microsoft SQL Azure Codename "Cloud Numerics" Lab Release

 Microsoft's SQL Azure Labs About page describes its projects as a series of "working prototypes" that represent . . .

0 replies - 401 views - 01/24/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Data Compression with Diagram Encoding and Pattern Substitution

Two variants of run-length encoding are the diagram encoding and the pattern substitution algorithms. The diagram encoding is actually a very simple...

1 replies - 3929 views - 01/24/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

A Depressive Journey With MongoDB

Disclaimer You are about to read a long story on how I got burnt with MongoDB and depressed with it. I am not blaming MongoDB, anyone using, advocating or...

0 replies - 620 views - 01/23/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Node.js and NoSQL: What You Need to Know

For developers who might be interested in developing appications in node.js with a NoSQL data store, check out nodeup's eleventh podcast, downloadable here:

0 replies - 1870 views - 01/16/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Machine Learning: Ensemble Methods

Ensemble Method is a popular approach in Machine Learning based on the idea of combining multiple models. For example, by mixing different machine learning...

0 replies - 2293 views - 01/16/12 by Ricky Ho in Articles

DZone Top Article of 2011: 3 Components of a Successful Project

Earlier this month I attended the monthly meeting of the Seattle PHP Meetup Group. In ways I didn’t expect, it was a very interesting meeting. The content ...

1 replies - 12043 views - 01/13/12 by Brian Swan in News

Searching relational content with Lucene's BlockJoinQuery

Lucene's 3.4.0 release adds a new feature called index-time join (also sometimes called sub-documents, nested documents or parent/child documents), enabling...

0 replies - 1844 views - 01/09/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Neo4j Graph Database vs MySQL

For my social news stream application I am heavily thinking about the right software to support my backend. After I designed a database model in MySQL I...

4 replies - 4350 views - 12/26/11 by René Pickhardt in Articles

MongoDB for MySQL folks - Part 2

In this second part of a series of blogs on using a NoSQL database, in this case MongoDB, aimed at MySQL users, I will describe querying a bit. And it's...

0 replies - 1659 views - 12/23/11 by Anders Karlsson in Articles

Going Native with SQL Server – Introduction

This is the first in a series of blog posts I’m planning to do, in preparation for a potential SQLBits session in March 2012. This article will introduce...

0 replies - 696 views - 12/19/11 by Nick Haslam in News

How To: Windows Phone and SQL Databases

Some developer evangelists for Windows Phone are now streaming their local presentations and Windows Phone Workshops online for the benefit of everyone. ...

1 replies - 1247 views - 12/06/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

MySQL vs. Neo4j on a Large-Scale Graph Traversal

This post presents an analysis of MySQL (a relational database) and Neo4j (a graph database) in a side-by-side comparison on a simple graph traversal.

3 replies - 5172 views - 12/05/11 by Marko Rodriguez in Articles

Basic Mistakes in Database Testing

There is a huge number of books about TDD. Those books usually concentrate on using test for units of work. Units of work are understood in many different...

8 replies - 7392 views - 11/28/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Scaling SQL and NoSQL Databases in the Cloud

Scaling an application in the cloud often hits the most common bottleneck – the database tier. Not only is database performance the number one cause of...

0 replies - 1888 views - 11/27/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles