Creating a Shopify plugin

This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. In the last post about Antecons, I wrote about frequent patterns and MapReduce. Since then, this base functionality has been tweaked to work a… Continue reading Creating a Shopify plugin

Prevent slow Linux performance on VirtualBox

Here is a quick tip if you are having slow performance with Linux running on VirtualBox: Assign at least two processors to the Linux instance Some background… My laptop came with Windows 7. I prefer to use Linux (currently Ubuntu) when developing and I really dislike dual-booting so installing Ubuntu side-by-side with Windows is not… Continue reading Prevent slow Linux performance on VirtualBox

Frequent patterns and MapReduce

This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. The first data mining algorithm that was implemented for Antecons was Frequent Pattern growth (FP-growth) which is an algorithm that finds frequent patterns in… Continue reading Frequent patterns and MapReduce

Antecons developer diary part 3

This post is about Antecons, a product recommendation engine, now part of Conversio. Antecons is no longer commercially available, but I have kept my developer diary on my website with permission. On Friday, October 5, 2012, Antecons was started over from scratch and another journey begun. How long this journey will be and what will… Continue reading Antecons developer diary part 3