(James McCaffrey) Evolutionary optimization (EO) is a type of genetic algorithm that can help minimize the error between computed output values and training data target output values. Use this demo program to learn to the method.
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Implementing Multiple Products in a single domain
(ACShorten) By default, the Oracle Utilities applications are installed in embedded mode for Oracle WebLogic. Basically the product reuses an existing Oracle WebLogic installation and points the WebLogic runtime installation to the Oracle Utilities application runtime to run the product.
Chunking Amazon S3 File Uploads With Plupload And ColdFusion
(Ben Nadel) Earlier this week, I took a look at using Plupload to chunk file uploads to your ColdFusion server. When I saw that working, I got excited; I wondered if I could use the same approach to chunk uploads directly to Amazon S3?
Detecting Mouse Wheel Movement
(Richard Carr) The mouse wheel can often provide a handy alternative to slower mouse operations, such as scrolling areas without positioning the cursor within a scroll bar. Many Windows Forms controls have built-in wheel support but custom wheel actions are possible.
ACM: organizing the chaos and flexing rigid process structures through adaptive case management
(Lucas Jellema) My introduction into the world of adaptive case management (ACM) feels like a huge relief. Without having to give up the benefits from structure and organization, ACM allows me to cater for the reality of the world in terms of exceptions, variations and the responsibility of experts
Data Warehousing on the Cloud with BLU Acceleration
(Adam Ronthal) I recently took on a new role at IBM focused on technical marketing for BLU Acceleration for Cloud, IBM’s new cloud-based agile data warehousing solution.
Agile Testing with Visual Studio 2012
(Gouri Sohoni) The success rate of a development project which provides a solution, satisfies the customer and is also robust, is very low. Some reasons why a software development project may not be successful are:
Standard Deviations with CTE in SQL
(Mike Davis) I was working with a client recently getting the number of standard deviations a student was off the average number of suspensions. I accomplished this with two Common Table Expressions, (CTE).
What’s the difference between a temp table and a table variable?
(Kenneth Fisher) I recently saw an answer to this question on dba.stackexchange.com written by Martin Smith. It was probably one of the most complete answers to this question I have ever seen. In fact it’s probably one of the most complete answers possible. I highly recommend that you read it. In th
Mainframe customers who have outsourced their IT infrastructure could be missing out on cost saving opportunities
(Laura) If you are a large organisation running IBM Mainframe you could be paying too much for your enterprise software. Most Mainframe software charges are based on peak CPU usage, so whatever your peak in a given month is what you pay for.