ACID

This is going to be a very quick post, mainly because so many people have asked me what ACID means.

This post applies to a lot of topics / modules; but mainly to Databases and Distributed Computing.

Representation State Transfer - REST

Now for the final section about these architectures. This post will cover the aspects concerning the REST Architecture. It really simple to grasp the concept of it, so lets take a look!

Distributed Computing – SOAP

No, this post is not about the slippery block of nice smelling soap! SOAP in Distributed Computing is another form of message exchanging between peers, and here we describe how it does this.

Service Oriented Architecture – Part (2/2)

This is the second part to SOA’s, in this post we’ll have a look at Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM’s) and other various things to finish of this section.

Service Oriented Architecture – Part (1/2)

Over the next – possibly – 2 or 3 posts, i am going to be posting about SOA, Services and MOM’s. Then they’ll be a post about SOAP, then finally one about REST. All of which are Architectures for Computing in their own right.

However, this post will mark the start – explaining in detail what SOA really is, what a Service is, as well as MOM’s (i will try a reframe from ‘ya mom’ jokes)  :)

This post is best displayed as a .pdf file which can be found HERE.

Distributed Systems

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Algorithms – The 0/1 Knapsack Problem – Dynamic Programming method

Okay, I didn't see that James had made a video about the very same subject. Great minds think alike I guess? Sigh. Well, here it is: The Dynamic Programming method for solving a 0/1 Knapsack Problem explained, in depth, by me in under 11 minutes!



Bug 1: Ignore the "The cell with the green circle around has a capacity of" blah blah etc. because I uploaded the wrong version ._. The green circle should be around cell (3,1).
Bug 2: I circle item '1' when I should circle item '3' at the end when we're going through the keep array. I fail.
Bug 3: I say '2' somewhere instead of '3'. See if you can spot it.