Seth Godin leads us off today with a short post about the difference between hope and expectation. If people followed his advice, most programming projects would probably go smoother. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about rethinking instead of minor improvements. There are some really good articles in the advanced section below as well. There is discussion of building spam trees, using SMT solvers, sentiment analysis, navigation and matrix multiplication.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Top Stories

• Hope and expectation | Seth Godin
• The Essence of Rethinking in Reengineering | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni

Career and Process

• Web Performance is not an IT thing only! | Javalobby
• Writing Good Code | Javalobby

Development

• Java 7 try-with-resources statement | Java Code Geeks
• PyPy, Garbage Collection, And A Deadlock | Javalobby
• Typos in search queries at Khan Academy | John CS
• Verifying state machine behavior using test.check | Interrupted
• How to FlatMap a JDBC ResultSet with Java 8? | Javalobby
• Palindromic sequences in Clojure | fogus
• On Arrays.fill, Intrinsics, SuperWord and SIMD instructions | Psychosomatic, Lobotomy, Saw

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Three Fast Data Application Patterns | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Using SMT Solvers to Analyze the Premier League Table | Pramod Subramanyan
• Growing a Spam Tree | Javalobby
• Visualizing Matrix Multiplication As a Linear Combination | Javalobby
• A comparison of open source tools for sentiment analysis | Stathis Fotiadis
• Machine learning in navigation devices: detect maneuvers using accelerometer and gyroscope | Blind Motion Project

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Building a search engine for logos | Alex Charlton
• 10 Hidden Gems In Google Analytics: Smart Web Data Analysis | Occam’s Razor
• Using nHibernate EventListeners to validate and audit data | Peter van Ooijen

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Scaling Your Application Efficiently – Horizontal or Vertical? | Javalobby
• Google’s network edge: presence, connectivity and choice for today’s enterprise | Google Cloud Platform

Fun and Other stuff

• Why Growth Hacking Works | Blind Five Year Old
• Spice Girl | xkcd