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Links Extravaganza - KDD, Data Mining, Video Lectures etc

Machine Learning CourseMachine Learning Video Lectures Compiled in Course Form. Statistical Aspects of Data MiningVideo Lectures on Statistical Aspects of KDD and DM. Undocumented FusionOne of the most interesting undocumented jewel. The TETRAD Project:Causal Models and Statistical Data 19 Eponymous Laws Of Software DevelopmentInteresting compilation by Phil Haack Ethical Hacking and CountermeasuresI'm planning to take…

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WCF and Document Literal vs. RPC Encoding

Document Literal vs. RPC Encoding is the big endian-little endian of connected systems. There has been a lot said about the differences (see reference section for details) however this post is about how elegant it looks in WCF. Traditionally we had two ways to represent them; As a web method [WebMethod] public int Add(int p1,…

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Machine Learning Summer School

Now this is my idea for summer fun! Too bad its far far away from sunny California else I'd be right there. Machine Learning Summer School August 20-31, 2007, Max Planck Campus, Tübingen, Germany Machine Learning is a foundational discipline of the Information Sciences. It combines theory from areas as diverse as Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering,…

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ISSA-LA Meeting on Hacking Intranet Website and Best Security Measures

Yesterday's ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) LA chapter's monthly member meeting was highlighted by Jeremiah Grossman's presentation on Hacking Intranet Websites from the Outside and Best Practice Security Measures . Stan Stahl of Citadel information security group and president of ISSA-LA chapter invited us to this lunch meeting which was very informative from development and…

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Best Java IDE for .NET Developers

This blog title is surely oxymoron-ish but hold your opinions before you read it completely! If you are a .NET developer and have 1. Tried building Java Apps for interop/proof of concept/fun/prototyping and the weird class paths have repeatedly failed you.2. Tried eclipse and netbeans and were scared of their bloat/complexity/usability!3. Given up on the…

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Why Web Service Software Factory?

This blog entry is based on a conversation with Michelle Bustamante at the SoCal Code Camp.  She has announced doing a 15 part series of web casts on WCF. All the links are on her blog WCF Webcast Series Michelle has raised an important concern about web service software factory; Why Web Service software factory?…

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ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Equation

As I was driving down to work this morning trying to catch up on .NET Rocks, I started listening to ASP.NET Scalability Panel Tech-Ed 2007 show. This is an excellent panel discussion; highly recommended to anyone who writes an ASP.NET web application. The panelists include Stephen Forte, Kent Alstad and Rob Howard who talked about…

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The Graduate!

Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit.Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. So after grueling 18 months, I've just graduated with degree of Masters in Computer Science from Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, Nova Southestern University. I've taken the following courses taught by…

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Richard Campbell’s Says...

Following are some of the interesting quotes from Dot Net Rock’s infamous Richard Campbell’s SQL Query optimization session at code camp; Excellent talk, informative and entertaining. And yes, he is officially the 5th person who laughed at the autobahn joke, that’s pre-explanation! Heisenberg uncertainty principle of SQL profiler “If you have measured it, you just…

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