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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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