A colleague of mine had an interesting problem. He was trying to calculate fill rates for tables in a database, but the only way to access the records was one-by-one. Given that it was a pretty large database, getting the fill rates was quite slow. Because the fill-rates are only displayed with three digit precision in his… Continue reading Statistics – When to stop
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The Joys of Open Source
On the job we use a large mixture of technologies, from open source javascript libraries found on github to expensive professional development IDEs like Microsoft Visual Studio. In the past (little over a year ago), all our builds were done through custom build scripts, we used ant here and there but most of the plumbing… Continue reading The Joys of Open Source