During the last community standup of the ASP.NET core team Damien announced that project.json is going away. This spurred a discussion on twitter that left me with the feeling that this is a bad thing
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Created 4/20/2016 6:55:00 AM
Filed in Machine Learning
elling algorithms is becoming a thing on the internet. A number of big companies have started to sell access to their algorithms. It's an interesting business model. If you haven't got the smarts to i
Read moreMachine Learing tools come in many shapes and sizes. One of the trends in the past few years has been the data lake. But what is a data lake, how does it relate to machine learning and why should you
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Created 2/28/2016 6:52:00 AM
Filed in Machine Learning
Last week I teached a group of colleagues about machine learning. The goal for the training was to remove the black box and learn more about what you can do with machine learning. We also covered some
Read moreWhen I started developing software at thirteen I dreamed of architecting big software systems. I really wanted to build cool stuff with my computer, although I could only program a little bit of QBasi
Read moreLast week we started to build our first component in Typescript. We have done Javascript development for quite a few years and we are quite proficient at it as a team. Still there is room for improvem
Read moreBuilding a micro service using Spring Boot is quite a lot better than building everything by hand. But when you want to do something different it's a bit like eating mcDonalds. It's fast and easy, but
Read moreComing from .NET I've always liked Azure for its simplicity. I takes no more than 5 minutes to run a ASP.NET web application on Azure. I figured: Why isn't that possible for Java too? Turns out it is
Read moreMicrosoft has launched a preview for Azure IoT hub a while back. I didn't have the time back then to check it out, but now that it has had some time to settle I think it's a good time to check things
Read more"My weblog is getting pretty old" was the first thing I thought when I tried to update it to the latest technology. And it's true, I've started my weblog on community server, moved it to wordpress, tr
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Created 12/10/2015 6:45:00 AM
Filed in Best practices
Every week I get at least 3 questions whether I'd like to change jobs. It usually goes something like this: "Hi we are looking for developers for a company somewhere in the country. Tt's really great
Read moreIn the previous post I showed you how to build basic Spark programs. Building a basic Spark application is the hello world scenario of Spark. Normally you'd use something like a database to feed your
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