Artima Developer BuzzA community of developers who blog.YoYoBrain.com: Study Less. Learn More.- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Will Bunker founded the online dating service that became Match.com, the worlds largest personals site. Will designed the software and developed the hardware infrastructure for the site, which grew to 4.5 million monthly unique visitors and annualized subscription revenues of $14 million, outperforming Yahoo Personals and other competitors. In...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=234054 MVP awards - Vince and Chris- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Congratulations to Chris O'Brien and Vincent Rothwell from the UK SharePoint Architects community that won MVP awards today - very well deserved !Mark Harrisonhttp://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=234027 VW 5i to VW 7: Thomas Hawker at StS 2008- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I've got another video from Smalltalk Solutions 2008, in low res or higher: Full Quality MP4 (266 MB)320x240 MP4 (101 MB) You can get the slides here.Technorati Tags: smalltalk, smalltalk solutions, envy, store, ooclhttp://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=234029 Cedric's Code Challenge- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Cedric Buest issued a interesting little challenge this morning: Here is an interesting coding challenge: write a counter function that counts from 1 to max but only returns numbers whose digits don't repeat. For example, part of the output would be: 8, 9, 10, 12 (11 is not valid) 98, 102, 103 (99, 100 and 101 are not valid) 5432, 5436, 5437...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=234031 Hiring at Flumotion- (Found July 2, 2008 ) So Flumotion, sister company of Fluendo Embedded where I work, is looking for Python hackers. Thomas will be at EuroPython, so if you are interested in the available positions, be sure to get in touch with him! Working at Fluendo is quite nice, conditions are great, people are nice and smart :) The office is growing quickly and Barcelona is at...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=234033 Spring Rich Client - Part 2- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Let us do some more basics with the &8220;Spring Rich Client&8221; 1.0.0 (SpringRC). Although it is time to give an overview of the entire architecture I won&8217;t do this here, because I am a newbie with Spring and SpringRC. So we will just look into the steps how we get things running. Startup First of all we ...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=234035 Powerset joins Live Search- (Found July 2, 2008 ) From the Live Search team ...We're excited to announce that we've reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company.Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco. Powerset brings with it natural language technology that nicely complements other natural...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=234037 Porting from VW 5i to VW&38;: Thomas Hawker at StS 2008 (Audio)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) To go with the video, here's Thomas Hawker's talk in audio-only form (again, the slides are here). Technorati Tags: smalltalk, smalltalk solutions, oocl, gemstone, envyhttp://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=234039 Controlling Banshee over D-Bus- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I needed to be able to control Banshee from another application, and it turns out it has a lovely D-Bus API. Skip to the next song: import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() banshee = bus.get_object("org.bansheeproject.Banshee", "orgbansheeprojectBansheePlaybackController") banshee.Next(False) use banshee.Previous(False) to skip back one song...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=234041 Faster block Tanimoto calculations- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This is part 5 of an on-going series dealing with molecular fingerprints: Molecular fingerprints, background Generating molecular fingerprints with OpenBabel Computing Tanimoto scores, quickly Block Tanimoto calculations Faster block Tanimoto calculations Comments After much analysis and digging in part 4 I managed to get my C extension to...http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=234043 |