That! But How?

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Latest — Mar 17, 2015

You Can Be Awesome at Hiring Developers

Motivation The motivation for this post is the disconnect I’m seeing between the marketplace and my own experience with hiring developers. It seems an adage these days that hiring great developers is extremely difficult. My experience is that there is enough talent out there and that employers, large and

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Learn REST in 18 Slides

I needed to ramp-up my Dev team on RESTful [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer] systems. Existing content on this topic was either too terse or too verbose. So I created this deck as a necessary and sufficient tutorial on REST. The goal was for my Devs to

RserveCLI2, a .net client for Rserve

RserveCLI [https://rservecli.codeplex.com/] is a .net/cli client for Rserve, created by Oliver M. Haynold. Oliver has done a great job with this project. I forked this project to add features, fix bugs, and do some restructuring. I thought it was a significant enough depature to create a

Simple Software, a Tutorial

I’m a compulsive note-taker (using OneNote, which I think tops all other products in the category). I like to condense information, in plain english [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_English], and codify insights so I can refer to them later when I need a refresher. Here’s my

A Warning About warning()

Avoid R’s warning feature. This is particularly important if you use R in production; when you regularly run R scripts as part of your business process. This is also important if you author R packages. Don’t issue warnings in your own code and treat warnings in 3rd party

Version Control - the Host Matters

We’re moving from internally hosted SVN to Git [http://git-scm.com/]/GitHub [https://github.com/] for the typically reasons (resounding hallelujah). Mercurial [http://mercurial.selenic.com/] was a contender. We surveyed the available hosts and choose Git because of GitHub. It's an old adage at play here

IRTFMAIS

I Read The F***ing Manual And It Sucks from xkcd [https://xkcd.com/942/]

R Source on GitHub

* I added R source code v0.49 to v2.15.0 to a GitHub repository: r-source [https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source] * Each release is tagged [https://github.com/SurajGupta/r-source/tags] by version number. * This is an easy and accessible way to browse R source and diff with prior version.

R, I Love You

It is easier to critique than it is to create. I write this post with much gratitude for R, the R community and particularly R-Core who are paid $0 to bring us R. I’d like to offer an idea and I’m wondering if people are interested in rallying