August 31st 2010
Testing is one of the basis to create robust and correct code. O’Reilly has published in its “Beautiful” series a lot of books on different parts of the development process. This is the testing part.
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Loading ...August 3rd 2010
When twenty or so langage creators are put together to make a book, it can only be interesting. It’s a good revealer of character, as they tend to open their heart. In fact I think that’s exactly what happened in this book.
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I’ve recently bought a fourth generation Roomba, which is a vacuum cleaning robot. I bought this brand because it is well-known and has a good history of hackable robots. So the next step was to figure out how to hack it, and hence this book.
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We have now several petaflopic clusters available in the Top500. Of course, we are trying to get the most of their peak computational power, but I think we should sometimes also look at optimal resource allocation.
I’ve been thinking about this for several months now, for work that has thousands of tasks, each task being massively data parallel. Traditionnally, one launches a job through one’s favorite batch scheduler (favorite or mandatory…) with fixed resources and during an estimated amount of time. This may work well in research, but in the industrial world, there often a new job that arises and that needs part of your scarce resources. You may have to stop your work, loose your current advances and/or restart the job with less resources. And then the cycle goes on.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...June 8th 2010
After last week review, I’ve decided to try another book from a much higher standard publisher, Springer. The price is also far higher, but it covers what I think are the current best supports for building automation.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...June 1st 2010
Last few days, I was looking for tools for building automation (I’m investigating the technology I may be using in my future home), so I borrowed this book. It seemed to be on a par with my ideal of home automation: Linux as a ground basis for steering the automation. Let’s see if it kept its promises.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...May 25th 2010
97 pieces of advice, not less, not more. Several dozens of (more or less famed) developers were asked for their opinion on programming good practices, and their answers were compiled in this book.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...March 31st 2010
Massively parallel processors are in the mood today. We had small parallel processors with a few cores and the ability to launch serevral threads on one core, we have now many cores on one processor and at the other end of the spectrum, we have GPUs. CPUs vendors are now going in this direction with Larabee and Fusion, and GPUs will still have more cores/threads/… It’s thus mandatory to understand this shift now.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...March 23rd 2010
Debugging software is one of the complex actions in software development. It’s not just about using a debugger, it’s about how do you manage bugs. This book has a pragmatic (amazing, don’t you think?) approach on this matter.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...March 16th 2010
This book may be a little bit old (2001), but it’s still very relevant today. A lot of the material in the book is still not applied in C++ development, it may be time to apply it, doesn’t it?
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