Integrating distributed, in-memory computing with distributed caching can easily extend LINQ semantics to create important new capabilities for real-time analytics on fast-changing data.
- By William L. Bain
- 08/08/2016
R has limited support for mathematical permutations, but it's there. Here's what R is capable of accomplishing.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/12/2016
Like magic, tuples make the impossible possible. Yep, we're talking here about one little corner in the Standard Template Library that will make it simple to return multiple values from a single function, without "out" parameters -- and it has other uses, too.
- By Kate Gregory
- 06/22/2016
It's not quite like C# or Python, but the R language's object-oriented programming capabilities are getting better with each iteration. Let's take a look at what .NET developers are able do now with OOP in R6.
- By James McCaffrey
- 06/16/2016
Null pointer exceptions can get downright annoying, so who needs that?
- By Kate Gregory
- 06/08/2016
In part 4 of this series on the C++ Core Guidelines, Kate Gregory reminds you of an oddity in C++ when it comes to initializing member variables, and shows you a best practice that will make sure this oddity never hurts you.
- By Kate Gregory
- 05/25/2016
Developers will always look to customize everything, and keyboards aren't out of bounds. Here's how to customize the iOS keyboard that pops up in your mobile apps to address any shortcomings.
- By Wallace McClure
- 05/18/2016
Now that you know how to communicate with the Band apps, here's another twist. Let's get interactive.
- By Nick Randolph
- 05/12/2016
In part 3 of this series on the C++ Core Guidelines, we explore constructors and why, rather than writing a default constructor, you should use in-class member initializers, a feature added in C++ 11.
- By Kate Gregory
- 05/11/2016
New to this type of analysis? It's a classic statistics technique that is still useful. Here's a technique for doing a one-way ANOVA using R.
- By James McCaffrey
- 05/04/2016
Too few C++ developers use const properly, or enough. A seemingly-strange guideline, suggesting you never use a particular language feature, leads to some insight about const and some good practices for you.
- By Kate Gregory
- 04/26/2016
What you can do with most programming languages can be accomplished in F#'s functional programming paradigm. Here's how to handle some simple operations, which might look familiar to you already.
- By Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
- 04/20/2016
The three most common open source technologies for writing data science programs are Python, SciLab, and R. Here's how to write program-defined functions in R.
- By James McCaffrey
- 04/12/2016
Here's a nifty tool that can help you get to the heart of issues in your mobile apps that aren't easy to track down.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/16/2016
R is the perfect language for creating a variety of chi-square tests, which are used to perform statistical analyses of counts of data. Here's how, with some sample code.
- By James McCaffrey
- 03/02/2016