Rob Janssen

image processing : Help find a bright object on Mars! : Mathematica

Here's another, slightly more scientific method. One that works for many kinds of anomalies (darker, brighter, different hue, different saturation).

Structured Data and the Road to Obsolescence

Starting with MongoDB.pm 0.46.3, MongoDB is no longer supported on Perl 5.8 and below. (If you must use 5.8, you can still use old versions of the driver, but you won't get any cool new features.) The first release of Perl 5.

Federal Circuit To Announce Whether Software is Patentable?: En Banc Rehearing on Section 101 Issues

CLS Bank Int'l v. Alice Corp, App. No. 2011-1301 (Fed. Cir. 2012) (en banc order) The Federal Circuit has refocused its attention on the question of patentable subject matter and has ordered an en banc rehearing of CLS Bank Int'l. v. Alice Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2012).

Ad Tech for Social Networks

We’ve been using MongoDB for a year and a half at ThoughtLeadr. During that time we’ve gone from elation to depression using this trendy NoSQL datastore. Based on the documentation, it’s not hard to see why you’d get pulled in.

Firefox Debuts New Developer Toolbar

Firefox makes developing for the Web faster and easier with a unique Developer Command Line. The new tool provides easy keyboard control over Firefox Developer Tools and is intuitive, completing commands and parameters for you.

be nice to programmers

Dude you're so lucky to be a programmer. I wish I was a programmer. Why don't you learn to code?

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP

Visual Studio 2012 Update is providing continuous value to customers, adding new capabilities year-round to features in the main product release.

bcrypt as an Anti-SPAM Measure.

Spam is incredibly common because it's dirt cheap, right? So let's make it more expensive. What we're doing... Our goal here is to make sending bulk email just slightly more expensive than it is, in terms of CPU consumption.

Management Myth #8: I Can Still Do Significant Technical Work

Susan looked up from her desk and sighed. She stood, followed Clive down the hall, and knocked on his office door. “What? I’m a little busy right now!” he replied and turned back to his computer. Then, he turned to Susan and said, “Explain this part of the framework to me.”

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