Saturday, January 10, 2015

.NET Micro ORMs

.NET Micro ORMs – Pluralsight Training

StackExchange/dapper-dot-net @ GitHub

Performance of SELECT mapping over 500 iterations - POCO serialization

MethodDuration
Hand coded (using a SqlDataReader)47ms
Dapper ExecuteMapperQuery49ms
ServiceStack.OrmLite (QueryById)50ms
PetaPoco52ms
BLToolkit80ms
SubSonic CodingHorror107ms
NHibernate SQL104ms
Linq 2 SQL ExecuteQuery181ms
Entity framework ExecuteStoreQuery631ms

OpenCV: Open Source Computer Vision library

OpenCV



"OpenCV is released under a BSD license and hence it’s free for both academic and commercial use. It has C++, C, Python and Java interfaces and supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android. OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Enabled with OpenCL, it can take advantage of the hardware acceleration of the underlying heterogeneous compute platform. Adopted all around the world, OpenCV has more than 47 thousand people of user community and estimated number of downloads exceeding 9 million. Usage ranges from interactive art, to mines inspection, stitching maps on the web or through advanced robotics."



+ Free 21-day crash course on computer vision & image search engines



1024 bytes JavaScript Chess

1K Chess, the world's smallest chess game online
This is an online 1-kilobyte chess game for one player against the computer. The source code takes just 1024 bytes, making it the world's smallest Javascript chess program that implements both castling and en passant capture. The only limitations are that you always play white pieces and pawn promotion is limited to the queen. You can also play two "advanced" 2-kB chess levels.

Online Chess - Level Basic

Toledo Nanochess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Azure += Docker

Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure | Microsoft Azure Blog
Create VM

Docker


Soft Skills, Get Involved

book: Manning: Soft Skills
The software developer's life manual
John Z. Sonmez
Forewords by Scott Hanselman and Robert C. Martin



by Scott Hanselman & Rob Conery


free patents: Toyota fuel cell vs Tesla electric

After Tesla Motors Inc, Now Toyota Opens Patents 
"Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) released its patents to the world last year, and now it seems like Toyota has taken a cue from the Palo Alto-based EV manufacturer. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Monday, Toyota announced that it is also opening its technology to spur hydrogen fuel cell adoption."

DailyTech - Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars are "Bulls**t"
“And then they’ll say certain technologies like fuel cell … oh god … fuel cell is so bullshit. Except in a rocket," said Musk. More specifically, Musk said that even the best hydrogen fuel cell technology doesn't compare to the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, such as that found in Tesla's Model S."

Toyota Mirai – The Turning Point

CES 2015: The Internet of Things is Here, and It May Even Be Useful | Big Think


Toyota was joined by futurist (and Big Think expert) Michio Kaku
to show off the Mirai hydrogen-powered car.