I have recently enrolled to Introduction to Data Science. One of the very first assignments was Twitter sentiment analysis performed in Python. Leaving a whole lot aside, what captured my attention was a requirement to resolve tweets’ geocoded locations without relying on 3rd party services. The assignment paper suggested to Read more…
The pattern separates asynchronous I/O from the synchronous one. Main thread doesn’t block on incoming client requests and long-running operations are offloaded to a dedicated synchronous layer. Processing results are delivered by the means of callbacks. Application largely used in operating systems (hardware interrupts, application management) Android – AsyncTask (file Read more…
The pattern revolves around synchronization. In short, concurrent threads (clients) can only use the object via a set of synchronized methods. Only one method can run at a time. Typically a synchronized method watches for a certain condition. However, there is no polling involved. Instead, the methods are being notified. Read more…
Active Object pattern decouples method execution from its invocation. Think asynchronous method invocation, callbacks etc. To avoid race conditions, incoming client requests are queued and handled by a scheduler. The scheduler picks a queued object and makes it run its logic. It is object’s responsibility to know what to do Read more…
Here is how to terminate a stuck screen command using a script. As part of my job I deal with a legacy Linux setup comprising a range of screens. Every now and then some of them freeze due to memory issues and attaching a session doesn’t work anymore. I was wrapping my Read more…
Up until Spring 4 generics played no major role when it came to resolving injected bean dependencies. Suppose there are multiple beans of the same type implementing a generic interface. In a pre-Spring 4 world, any attempt to resolve such a bean by type would inevitably lead to a NonUniqueBeanDefinition Read more…