Category: Technology

What is Apache Tez?

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

You might have heard of Apache Tez, a new distributed execution framework that is targeted towards data-processing applications on Hadoop. But what exactly is it? How does it work? Who should use it and why? In their presentation, Apache Tez: Accelerating Hadoop Query Processing, Bikas Saha and Arun Murthy discuss Tez’s design, highlight some of its features and share some of the initial results obtained by making Hive use Tez instead of MapReduce. Presentation transcript edited by Roopesh Shenoy Tez generalizes the MapReduce paradigm to a more powerful framework based on expressing computations as a dataflow graph. Tez is not meant directly for end-users – in fact it enables developers to build end-user applications with much better performance and flexibility. Hadoop has …

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What is Apache Tez?

How to Disable Disqus on Custom Post Types in WordPress

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

We recently switched from WordPress comments to Disqus comment system on WPBeginner. One of our users pointed out that comments on our custom post types comments weren’t migrated properly. For a temporary solution, we simply disabled Disqus on certain custom post types. In this article, we will show you how to disable Disqus on custom post types in WordPress. Disqus not showing comments on our custom post types was an error on our part. When importing comment to Disqus, we couldn’t use the normal sync feature because of the size of our site. We had to generate an export file and send it to Disqus to pre-import the comments. This meant that we only did this for posts and not other post types. So …

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The Gap between UI and UX Design – Know the Difference

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Do you know that UI and UX are not the same concepts? Surely, they are closely connected, even mutually penetrated and rarely exist without each other. Would you like to study the differences between UI and UX design in detail? This article will give you such an opportunity. We believe that it is impossible to become an expert designer without a strong knowledge of both terms. We promise that some definitions will seem fun to you; some of them will seem serious and in-depth. The info you are going to read is vivid and informal as we have based it on real web developers’ thoughts and expressions. We wish you an enjoyable reading. The Difference Between UI and UX Design The definitions Let’s start with …

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The Gap between UI and UX Design â€“ Know the Difference

How To Make A Swipeable Table View Cell With Actions – Without Going Nuts With Scroll Views

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Make a swipeable table view cell without going nuts with scroll views! Apple introduced a great new user interface scheme in the iOS 7 Mail app – swiping left to reveal a menu with multiple actions. This tutorial shows you how to make such a swipeable table view cell without getting bogged down in nested scroll views. If you’re unsure what a swipeable table view cell means, then see this screenshot of Apple’s Mail.app: You’d think that after introducing something like this, Apple would have made it available to developers. After all, how much harder could it be? Unfortunately, they’ve only made the Delete button available to developers – at least for the time being. If you want to add other buttons, or …

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How To Make A Swipeable Table View Cell With Actions – Without Going Nuts With Scroll Views

20 Useful Docs and Guides for Front-End Developers

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I come across so many interesting info-apps and documents in my daily research, so I thought I’d provide a list of those here. True, not everyone likes the list post or roundup, but hey, we can’t please everyone. And we don’t do these types of posts too often anyhow. In this case, this is a great way to bookmark a few things maybe for some evening or weekend reading. I guarantee you’ll find at least a few links in here that you’ll want to come back to. Enjoy! A great point-and-click little app to get you up to speed with all the different parts of CSS syntax and what the proper name for them is. A very simple …

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20 Useful Docs and Guides for Front-End Developers