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Slides for my Talk on Asset Fingerprinting with PHP. Asset fingerprinting is an approach taken from Rails that allows you to set far-future cache expiry dates for static files and still have the browser re-load them whenever they change. In my talk I show how you can do that with PHP. Here are the slides, have fun! .

To start, I have to say that it is really heartwarming to get feedback from readers, so thank you for engagement. This post is a response to a request made collaborative filtering with R. The approach used in the post. Required the use of loops on several occassions. Loops in R are infamous for being slow. In fact, it is probably best to avoid them all together. For the record, I am still learning Python. This is the first script I write in Python.

As per BOL, A TRYCATCH construct catches all execution errors that have a severity higher than 10 that do not close the database connection. This is a common thing which a developer ignores and get into a trap.

Thoughts on Coding, Software Engineering and Entrepreneurship. Removing META-INF directory from sbt assembly. I recently had a look into sbt assembly, since I had to create a fat .