I have some pages on a website and I have to create an ordering based on "popularity"/"activity" The parameters that I have to use are: views to the page comments made on the page (there is a fo...

Summary As Ted Jaspers wisely pointed out, the methodology I described in the original proposal back in 2012 is actually a special case of an exponential moving average. The beauty of this approac...

One of the problems of using CPAN is that "there's more than one module to do it". I often wonder what everyone else is using. Is there any information on the relative popularity of CPAN mod...

I recently checked out the book "UNIX Network Programming, Vol. 1" by Richards Stevens and I found that there is a third transport layer standard besides TCP and UDP: SCTP. Summary: SCTP is a tra...

I've started learning assembly recently and as I've looked across the internet I see more and more people saying that assembly is not useless, but it's also not worth the time to program things in ...

I know this question has been asked a million times in various ways by different businesses, but I'm wondering the community's opinion on it [There's this question, but in the fast-moving world of ...

I have a Django application in which I need to implement a simple trending/ranking algorithm. I'm very lost as a : I have two models, Book and Reader. Every night, new books are added to my databa...

I like to keep an eye on trending browsers/OSs/languages etc... I find google trends is a very useful resource sometimes but other times I can not get the information I want. Example of very clear...

While searching around the net for light, fast ORMs targeting .NET, I came across BLToolKit, which seems absolutely amazing in terms of performance, openness, maintainability, and flexibility...

I have often wondered why MySQL has become so popular. Any ideas why? Are there specific reasons behind its success? (Please keep answers analytical)

For student council this year, I'm on the "songs" committee, we pick the songs. Unfortunately, the kids at the dances always end up hating some of the stupid song choices. I thought I could make it...

Say I want to get ten records with the MOST likes in the last 24 hours. Here's what I have so far: $date = date("o-m-d"); $query = "SELECT date_created,COUNT(to),from,to FROM likes WHERE date_crea...

I've been looking into popularity algorithms used on sites such as Reddit, Digg and even Stackoverflow. Reddit algorithm: t = (time of entry post) - (Dec 8, 2005) x = upvotes - downvotes y = {1 ...

Consider the following table which has the fields - id (int) and date_created (datetime): id date_created 1 2010-02-25 12:25:32 2 2010-02-26 13:40:37 3 2010-03-01 12:02:22 4 2010-03-01 12:10:...

I'm making a digg-like website that is going to have a homepage with different categories. I want to display the most popular submissions. Our rating system is simply "likes", like "I like this" ...

What are the popular, contemporary uses for Perl? Edit I should have been more specific. I was wondering more on the large scale (popular) what people are using Perl for rather than what it could...

Are there any surveys anywhere which report on number of projects and/or people using the assorted Free version control systems? Also interesting is if a similar survey was one over time, to see h...

I am a newbie and developing a website using ASP .Net 2.0 with C# 2005. I would like to add a facility to count the no. of visitors to my website. I have collected the basic informations to add thi...

We start to use LDAP and I wonder why LDAP is not that popular? I read that it has faster reads than database, however slower writes. EDIT: Its the first time i use LDAP and i have been programmi...

Is the SO tag ordering a good representation of programming language popularity? My first guess would be that it's not and that it's largely populated by fans of Jeff (who would probably be .Net b...

Yes XML is human readable but so is comma delimited text and properties files. XML is bloated, hard to parse, hard to modify in code, plus a ton of other problems that I can think about with it. ...