Hack Neo4j on Heroku for Fun and Profit

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Covers the new semantic markup, canvas for drawing and animation, audio and video support, and how to use HTML5 with older browsers.

Top DZone Article of 2011: I Hate Pair Programming (and your code and you)

“Are you pair programming?” our manager asked in his snarky tone, while using exaggerated double air quotes to emphasize his skepticism. He then walked...

3 replies - 15360 views - 01/26/12 by David Bland in News

Setting Custom Wallpaper with Android

Wallpapers are a nice way to customize your homescreen. There are many applications that allow you to change your wallpaper and they have huge databases with...

0 replies - 468 views - 01/27/12 by Mark Mooibroek in Articles

Morphological Analysis and Named Entity Recognition in Lucene/Solr

This talk will show how the relevance of search results can be improved by using morphological analysis and named entity recognition. After briefly...

0 replies - 753 views - 01/27/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

Persistance Options with Redis

Most people thinking of Redis, think of it is an in-memory datastore. This is totally true. However, there is a lot of misconception with the “in memory”...

0 replies - 947 views - 01/27/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Removing the Need for a Menu Button on Android

To many, the inclusion of a menu button on Android phones is a bit messy. After all, the usability of iOS devices is spot on without this function. It makes me...

2 replies - 871 views - 01/27/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

Mocking with JodaTime's DateTime and Google Guava's Supplier

If you're a seasoned unit tester, you've learned to take note when you see any code working with time, concurrency, random, persistence and disc I/O.

3 replies - 1192 views - 01/27/12 by Mike Ensor in Articles

Java Thread Affinity support for hyper threading

A benefit of hyper-threading is the ability to support more threads without incurring the overhead of context switches. If your threads spend a high...

0 replies - 1021 views - 01/27/12 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

Book Review: JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example

Although Oracle's changes to JavaFX at JavaOne 2010 and JavaOne 2011 have converted me from a skeptic to a

0 replies - 688 views - 01/27/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Spring 3 and Apache Commons JCS Exception

I’ve seen a couple of projects in the last few months that have needed to cache data between requests. The developers, not wanting to write their own...

1 replies - 902 views - 01/27/12 by Roger Hughes in Articles

Arquillian with NetBeans, GlassFish embedded, JPA and a MySQL Datasource

This is an, let's call it accidental post. I was looking into transactional CDI observers and playing around with GlassFish embedded to run some integration...

1 replies - 814 views - 01/27/12 by Markus Eisele in Articles

Cool Visualization of Etsy's Chef Repo 2010-2011

Etsy used Gource, a software version control visualization tool to map Chef Repo. Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root...

0 replies - 1720 views - 01/26/12 by Christopher Smith in Videos

Is Programming Less Exciting Today?

As discriminatory as this is going to sound, this one is for the old-timers. If you started programming after the turn of the milennium, I don’t know if...

13 replies - 5448 views - 01/26/12 by Ted Neward in Articles

Scala Dynamo - a Scala (and Java!) API for Amazon’s DynamoDB

Last week saw the announcement of Amazon Web Services NoSQL database as a service, Dynamo. Dynamo has a number of very interesting features, not least that...

0 replies - 1776 views - 01/26/12 by Wille Faler in Articles

Graphite, JMXTrans, Ganglia, Logster, Collectd, say what?

Given that @patrickdebois is working on improving data collection I thought it would be a good idea to describe the setup I currently have hacked...

0 replies - 1546 views - 01/26/12 by Kris Buytaert in Articles

Solr at Etsy

Search at Etsy poses significant challenges. Our marketplace is filled with millions of unique, short-lived items and people trying to find them over 10...

0 replies - 2048 views - 01/26/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos