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Android

Google Glass Development Without Glass

Here are the slides of my “Google Glass Development without Glass” presentation. As I promised, here is the follow-up blogpost with some code samples. If you haven’t seen my presentation, I strongly suggest clicking through the slides! 0.Intro Technologies emerge. Extremely. Wearable trend takes over the world. It seems like every week we start with […]

Amazon

The Not-so-short Introduction to EC2 Instances in AWS SDK for .NET

Today is the era of cloud computing: never-ending computing resources available on demand. Amazon is one of the biggest players on the market of cloud computing. It provides different cloud services: Elastic Cloud, Elastic Block Store, Simple Email Service, Cloud Drive and others. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) allows to launch virtual servers in the […]

DevOps

Continuous Integration with TeamCity – Preparing Deployment Package

In this post we’ll discuss how one can create deployment package with the help of TeamCity. And do we need TeamCity to create deployment package? What feature and benefits TeamCity provides and what are the downsides of these “benefits”? prepare-deployment-package configuration First we need to define what deployment package is. It can also be named […]

Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration with TeamCity – Supporting Multiple Branches

Everybody will agree that nowadays Continuous Integration (CI) process established on project is as usual as Version Control System (VCS) for source code. Actually both are tightly coupled – CI server takes source code from VCS and runs all the pre-configured by build engineer magic: source code compilation, automated tests run, installation package preparation, etc. […]

Application development

Mobile Cross-platform Choices. Unraveled

This topic is obviously not new. Everyone talks about it. Sooner or later. After making these choices couple of times and talking with customers I noticed common misunderstanding, misuse and mistakes people do(and so did I). There are lots of great articles out there which help out deciding, but still I think it could be […]

Android

Boosting Android Apps Performance

While mobile vendor giants struggle to produce the most intellectual device, it appears that a huge amount of users want to buy a device as cheap as possible but still prefer smartphones over old-school feature-phones. This trend is mostly driven by a huge demand from emerging markets such as China and other Asian countries. Sub-$100 […]

Tools

A Short Note on Automatic Differentiation

Do you remember your undergraduate calculus course? Frankly speaking, I don’t. But I do remember a big blackboard completely covered in chalk scribbles. That was a nightmare! Hopefully, those times are gone. I mean, why would we care about derivatives now? Here at ELEKS, we do care about derivatives. We create and deliver precise models […]

Accelerator

Introducing Intel Xeon Phi – Hardware and Installation

Few days ago we have got Intel Xeon Phi 5110P Coprocessor – 60-core x86 accelerator that is direct competitor of GPGPU on HPC market and is based on Intel Many-Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. As Xeon Phi is a quite new piece of hardware there are very few information in the Internet regarding its usage, installation […]

Parallel Testing

Parallelism in Testing – To Be or Not To Be?

Today I would like to uncover the topic of parallel testing in context of test automation approaches: its potential benefits and possible scenarios. So let’s dwell on the matter of test automation as we know it.  What can we call a common benefit on this regard?  The most obvious one can be referred to as […]

CUDA

Speeding up MR Image Reconstruction with GeneRalized Autocalibrating Partially Parallel Acquisitions (GRAPPA)

This time we would like to share some details about realization of one of our projects in medical imaging. Currently one of the bottlenecks in MR image reconstruction is speed improvement. Improving the speed of image reconstruction is difficult from algorithmic point of view. But it’s becoming more popular to improve algorithm performance using GPU. […]