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Carol McDonald
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- Jacksonville, Florida
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Carol McDonald's Groups
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GatorJUG Town
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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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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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InfoQ Reading List
Presentation: Becoming Agile vs Doing Agile
Rashina Hoda explains the key dimensions that need to transition during Agile transformations, highlighting what can be done to progress beyond simply doing Agile.
By Rashina HodaPresentation: Big Data's Ethical Drought: The Thirst for More Data Has Led to a Lapse in Ethics and Privacy
Katharine Jarmul provides examples of data (mis)use and asking how we can work with data without violating the trust and privacy of users, producing an ethical product?
By Katharine JarmulThe Ethical Role Testers Can Have
Testers should step up outside of only doing quality level verification and be the ambassadors of ethical change, said Michal Buczko at TestCon Europe 2019. Ethics and integrity are becoming more and more important. Ensuring that employees understand appropriate ways to address daily ethical issues can have a major impact on your project outcome and your relationship with customers.
By Ben LindersArticle: A First Look at Java Inline Classes
Java currently supports only two types of value: primitives and object references. Project Valhalla extends this by introducing inline classes which are a new form of type that exhibit some behaviors of both. These new types open the door to better alignment with modern CPUs and considerable potential performance improvements for Java applications.
By Ben EvansPresentation: Rust's Journey to Async/await
Steve Klabnik gives an overview of Rust’s history, diving into the technical details of how the design has changed, and talks about the difficulties of adding a major new feature to a programming language.
By Steve Klabnik
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