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Last week I completed development of our 2 day class teaching Apache Spark which will be integrated in our Big Data and Data Science classes after the QA cycle. I will be feeding some fragments of the material with additional comments and notes that would help you get a taste of what the new content is all
Spark added support for R back in version 1.4.1. and you can use it in Spark Standalone mode. Big Hadoop distros, like Cloudera’s CDH and Hortonworks’ HDP that bundle Spark, have varying degree of support for R. For the time being, CDH decided to opt out of supporting R (their latest CDH 5.8.x version does
The Spring framework has been a highly popular framework for Java applications. So popular in fact, it is pretty much the defacto standard of Java application frameworks. One of the issues many projects run into though is just getting started with a new Spring project with all of the different features and configuration that might
A few months ago I wrote about how our core Java courses are being updated to Java 8. Now that the updates are a little further along we also have a course map that can show which Java 8 courses we have might be appropriate for you. You can find that here: Java Course Map
ASP.NET MVC provides several HTML helper functions that generates HTML automatically. E.g. Html.TextBox, Html.CheckBox etc. We can also create our own custom helper functions as well. For creating HTML functions following steps have to be performed: 1. Create a static class 2. Add a static method that returns either string or MvcHtmlString 3. First Parameter
Both SharePoint 2016 and Project Server 2016 Release Candidate are not available. SharePoint 2016 RC is mostly feature complete and it’s now safe enough to evaluate it to get an overall picture of the final product. If you have older Beta 2 then it can be upgraded to RC. If you have InfoPath 2013 and
For exception handling we have been using try..catch..finally block since forever in various languages. In this blog we will see how to handle the unhandled exceptions in ASP.NET MVC. Unhandled exceptions are the exceptions that are not handled using try..catch..finally block. For handling unhandled exceptions or for creating a global exception handler we have to
SharePoint supports two main development / deployment techniques for creating SharePoint projects: Server Object Model and Client-Side Object Model. If you plan on doing development for the hosted version of SharePoint, i.e. Office 365 / SharePoint Online, then you CSOM is the only option. A new SharePoint CSOM has been been released for SharePoint Online
Xamarin has been known for offering a native cross-platform development solution. It allows writing code using .NET and then running the same code on iOS, Android and WIndows devices. Microsoft has been supporting Xamarin tools in Visual Studio since VS 2013. But, now Microsoft has purchased Xamarin. It might boost Windows phone development and we