Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality (6)
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For a few years now people have been talking about semantic search. Any technology that stands a chance to dethrone Google is of great interest to all of us, particularly one that takes advantage of long-awaited and much-hyped semantic technologies. But no matter how much progress has been made, most of us are still underwhelmed by the results. In head-to-head comparisons with Google, the results have not come out much different. What are we doing ...
Writing Testable Code (43)
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by Miško HeverySo you decided to finally give this testing thing a try. But somehow you just can't figure out how to write a unit-test for your class. Well there are no tricks to writing tests, there are only tricks to writing testable code. If I gave you testable code you would have no problems writing a test for it. But, somehow you look at your code and you say, "I understand how to write ...
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Seth said:
One of the most concise pieces of writing I've ever seen to sum up how to design good code. Following these rules will almost guarantee a good design. Almost.
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Vishy007 said:
some nice solid advice
How to Write 3v1L, Untestable Code (34)
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by Miško Hevery, Jonathan Wolter, Russ Ruffer, Brad Cross, and lots of other test infected GooglersThis guide lists principles that will help you write impossible to tests code. Or, avoiding these techniques will help you write code that can be tested. Make Your Own Dependencies - Instantiate objects using new in the middle of methods, don't pass the object in. This is evil because whenever you new up an object inside a block of code ...
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Karpuscul said:
Лучший пост про тестирование за всю мою жизнь! Be evil ;)
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Steve said:
I'm not sure that "Be Defensive" is a bad thing--but good (anti)advice overall..
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glongman said:
required reading!!!!!!!!!!
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kalle said:
Utils (toolboxes) ftw! More static ftw!
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Robert Conn said:
Really detailed article that will make you a better tester, good stuff!
Creating a Client-Side Search Engine With Gears (3)
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Posted by Brad Neuberg, Gears TeamI've posted an in-depth article and tutorial on creating a client-side search engine with Gears. Here's a short snippet from the article:Did you know that you can use Gears to do fast, client-side searching of data, similar to a client-side search engine? Gears bundles Full-Text Search (FTS) abilities right into its local, SQLite database. MySpace, for example, uses this feature with their MySpace Mail application, downloading all of a user's ...
Exclusive: First Look At Genome, A Next-Gen Social Networking Service (6)
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What are the number one problems facing today's social networks? According to the young developer Vladislav Chernyshov they are: privacy issues, distraction and time-wasting, quantity over quality, ads, and lack of control over your identity. That's why he, Dmitry Gorpinchenko, and Andrew Chernyh, all students at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU) in Russia, have founded Genome, an upcoming next-generation social networking service which addresses the main problem of Web 2.0: the ever-increasing quantity of Web ...
Social media app’s will change the face of research: survey results (2)
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The survey, which yielded over 1800 responses, revealed that scientists are using blogs, wikis, and social networking and bookmarking applications primarily for professional reasons. Results show that these social media applications ...
Metaweb's Freebase Now 60% Larger Than English Wikipedia (10)
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Wikipedia is an incredible monument to human creativity and collaboration, but as one era of innovation passes into another - semantic web advocates want to augment the huge human input into the web with machine learning. The semantically enriched common database Freebase announced today that it will soon reach the milestone of 4 million topics added to its collection. That's 60% more than English Wikipedia's 2,445,041 articles and almost half the size of Wikipedia's full ...
Announcing: New Google C++ Testing Framework (4)
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Posted by Zhanyong Wan, Software EngineerWe all know the importance of writing automated tests to cover our code. To make it easier for everyone to write good C++ tests, today we have open-sourced Google C++ Testing Framework (Google Test for short), a library that thousands of Googlers have been using in our C++ programs. Highlights of the project include: Google Test is portable: it works on a variety of platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, ...
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Posted by Benjamin Schirmer, Gadget DeveloperWhile saving into the options object is very easy, you sometimes need more power and storage. Here is a tip on how to use an SQLite3 database in a Windows-only gadget.The first thing you need is the SQLite3 ActiveX object from http://www.assemb.... Just download the zip archive in the files section. The DLL file is called sqlite3.dll and is in the \litex\bin\ folder of the zip archive. Copy sqlite3.dll into ...Shared by Compuwizard123 (16) ganeshramiyer (1)Contribute comment
