Consumer Driven Testing with Pact & Spring Boot

Recently a colleague of mine stumbled across Pact.io,  Our current application had grown to over 50 services and we we’re starting…

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Upgrading Spring 3.x and Hibernate 3.x to Spring Platform 1.0.1 (Spring + hibernate 4.x)

I recent volunteered to upgrade our newest project to the latest version of Spring Platform. What Spring Platform gives you…

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Playing with Java 8 – Lambdas, Paths and Files

I needed to read a whole bunch of files recently and instead of just grabbing my old FileUtils.java that I…

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Playing with Java 8 – Lambdas and Concurrency

So Java 8 was released a while back, with a ton of features and changes. All us Java zealots have…

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Creating a price model using k-Nearest Neighbours + Genetic Algorithm

Chapter 8 of Programming Collective Intelligence (PCI) explains the usage and implementation of the k-Nearest Neighbours algorithm. (k-NN). Simply put: k-NN is…

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Mini Search Engine – Just the basics, using Neo4j, Crawler4j, Graphstream and Encog

Continuing to chapter 4 of Programming Collection Intelligence  (PCI) which is implementing a search engine. I may have bitten off…

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Blog Categorisation using Encog, ROME, JSoup and Google Guava

Continuing with Programming Collection Intelligence  (PCI) the next exercise was using the distance scores to pigeonhole a list of blogs…

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Some Java based AI Frameworks: Encog, JavaML, Weka

While working through I am working through Programming Collection Intelligence I found myself sending a lot of time translating the Python…

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Setting up and playing with Apache Solr on Tomcat

A while back a had a little time to play with Solr, and was instantly blown away by the performance…

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