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CompSci.ca/blog First-year computer science courses at the University of Waterloo will undergo a major revision in fall 2008. CS at UW is part of the Faculty of Mathematics, and all Math students (including not only CS and traditional Math students,...

I started playing around with Hibernate Search this weekend by following the getting started guide. Being a maven user, I attempted to use the JBoss published artifacts (from the JBoss repository) to make live a bit easier. UPDATE: Emmanuel Bernard has...

Coplien and Martin Debate TDD, CDD and Professionalism Summary Debate sprang up at JAOO '07 around Bob Martin's assertion that "nowadays it is irresponsible for a developer to ship a line of code he has not executed in a unit test." In this InfoQ...

Nearly 14 years after the once mighty browser made its first desktop appearance as Mosaic Netscape 0.9, its disappearance comes as little surprise. Although Netscape accounted for more than 80 per cent of the browser market in 1995, the arrival of...

Jeremy Zadowny has mention of a very large scale Hadoop deployment over at Yahoo! Search. It makes sense given their previous commitments and investments to the project but it's also cool in a way to start seeing some significant migrations to the...

Top 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers I've always found it interesting to read others thoughts on what makes us effective. If you haven't read it already, I'd recommend it. Ben's List Humility Love of Learning Detail-orientedness ...

JVM Lies : The OutOfMemory Myth It's also been covered (with even more comments) over on TSS. It's certainly beneficial for a developer to have a basic understanding of Java's approach to memory management. This post (and comments) does provide a simple...

In Leopard, Apple has introduced a new mechanism for managing and maintaining your system path ($PATH). Previously (and in most current Linux environments) paths were managed by updating the PATH environment variable directly in either the system profile...

A friend just pointed out a post over on Wired Science that talks a bit more about Google's (previously) announced plans to begin providing infrastructure to enable scientists to more easily share and collaborate on large volumes of data. It'll be...

thesixtyone is a music discovery game that rewards those who help others listen to good new music. If you've ever seen digg.com, this is essentially a music equivalent. Artists upload music, listeners vote, and gradually songs make their way up the...