In my previous post
we saw how to compress data consisting of very long runs of repeating
elements. This type of compression is known as “run-length...
0 replies - 2843 views - 01/17/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
Phil Sturgeon has been playing with PHP Fog and Pagoda Box for a while, and he thinks that PHP cloud hosting is about to hit its stride.It hasn't yet -- not...
0 replies - 491 views - 01/13/12 by John Esposito in Articles
No matter how fast today’s computers and networks are, the users will
constantly need faster and faster services. To reduce the volume of the
transferred...
0 replies - 2396 views - 01/10/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
I wrote about binary search
in my previous post, which is indeed one very fast searching algorithm,
but in some cases we can achieve even faster results....
0 replies - 4447 views - 01/03/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
The binary search is perhaps the most famous and best suitable search
algorithm for sorted arrays. Indeed when the array is sorted it is
useless to check...
1 replies - 4088 views - 12/27/11 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
This is the easiest to implement and the most frequently used search
algorithm in practice. Unfortunately the sequential search is also the
most ineffective...
4 replies - 4966 views - 11/29/11 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
I’ve been really positive about Cloud Foundry, seeing it as doing the sort of things for PaaS that OpenStack
does for IaaS. If Cloud Foundry succeeds in its...
0 replies - 2956 views - 11/08/11 by Ben Kepes in News
Scripting languages are becoming more serious. Higher levels of
abstraction mean more little languages, better-adapted to specific
purposes. Dismissing...
1 replies - 3774 views - 10/24/11 by John Esposito in Articles
A few weeks ago, while attending the delightful OggCamp, I was approached by someone asking me to speak at PyConUK. Well ...
I'm a PHP developer, but as with...
0 replies - 1073 views - 10/14/11 by Lorna Mitchell in News
I’m a huge Solr
fan. Once you understand what it does (it’s a search engine, which means
more than you think) and how it works you spot lots of thorny...
1 replies - 4167 views - 07/07/11 by Gareth Rushgrove in News
The floating-point bug is an error in the way that PHP converts numbers that may cause system resource problems. This error opens up a system to a DoS attack...
0 replies - 15873 views - 01/10/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Sigh. What a difficult question. There are numerous incarnations on
StackOverflow. All nearly unanswerable. The worst part is questions
where they add...
4 replies - 12672 views - 01/06/11 by Steven Lott in News
Recently I started playing with the google analytics API,
looking at ways to bring analytics onto dashboards and generate simple
reports from the data in...
1 replies - 3951 views - 12/09/10 by Lorna Mitchell in News
