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Carol McDonald
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Carol McDonald's Groups
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Community Corral
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iPhone Development
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Database SIG
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JEE Town
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Spring Town
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Carol McDonald's Discussions
Some Java Concurrency Tips
Started Sep 18, 2009
Java Enterprise Tech Tips: Locking and Concurrency in Java Persistence 2.0
Started Sep 14, 2009
Comparing Tomcat and Glassfish
Started Mar 6, 2009
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- What are your main interests in software development?
- Java, Web, Ajax, Java EE, Spring, Seam, JPA, Web Services
- Do you have a website?
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/
- Anything else you'd like to add? Where do you live? (optional!)
- Je parle Francais. Ich kann Deutsch.
Carol McDonald's Blog
movie recommendations with Spark machine learning
Posted on August 4, 2015 at 11:15am 0 Comments 1 Like
Tutorial on Apache Spark, movie recommendations with machine learning
This post discusses building a recommendation model from movie ratings using an iterative algorithm and parallel processing with Apache Spark MLlib.
https://dzone.com/links/parallel-and-iterative-processing-for-machine-lear.html
An Inside Look at the Components of a Recommendation Engine
Posted on April 13, 2015 at 9:14am 1 Comment 0 Likes
Recommendation engines help narrow your choices to those that best meet your particular needs. In this post, we’re going to take a closer look at how all the different components of a recommendation engine work together. We’re going to use collaborative filtering on movie ratings data to recommend movies. The key components are a collaborative filtering algorithm in Apache Mahout to build and train a machine learning model,…
Continuescreencast about MySQL for Developers
Posted on March 30, 2009 at 10:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
If you are a developer using MySQL, you should learn enough to take advantage of its strengths, because having an understanding of the database can help you develop better-performing applications. This session will talk about MySQL database design and SQL tuning for developers. Some topics include:
* MySQL Storage Engine Architecture
* Schema, the basic foundation of performance
* Think about performance when… Continue
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An unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC) was recently reported with the highest severity (10.0). Amazon threat intelligence teams report active exploitation attempts by multiple China state-nexus threat groups. The critical vulnerability affects React versions 19.0.0 through 19.2.0 and Next.js versions 15.x and 16.x when using App Router.
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