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How to Monitor Java Garbage Collection

This is the second article in the series of "Become a Java GC Expert". In the first issue Understanding Java Garbage Collection we have learned...

0 replies - 7907 views - 10/23/12 by Esen Sagynov in Articles

Improving Web Performance using Navigation Timing Specification

This post is written by Darin Wright. Darin is a Principal Software Engineer at New Relic who works on all things related to RUM — collecting,...

2 replies - 3206 views - 10/23/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

ElasticMQ 0.6 Updated: Batch Operations, Strict/Relaxed SQS-Compatibility Mode

Summer is definitely over, so it’s about time to release a new version of ElasticMQ (0.6). There are two major changes. The first adds support for batch...

3 replies - 2399 views - 10/22/12 by Adam Warski in Articles

Why It's Important That We're Seeing the First Graph DB Conference Ever

With the release of a new version of the open source graph database, Neo4j, and the fast-approaching Graph Connect conference...

3 replies - 5717 views - 10/22/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Polaris, a New Mapping Library for Android

Maps on mobile devices are one of the most useful tools. Adding maps to your apps can sometimes be difficult especially due to the slow speed Google's...

3 replies - 2272 views - 10/22/12 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles

Lowering Mobile Development Barriers to Entry: SDKs in the Cloud

Icenium is today launching what would appear to be a very compelling proposition – an environment that enables cross platform mobile development that...

5 replies - 3135 views - 10/22/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

JavaOne 2012: What's New in Groovy 2.0

Guillaume Laforge's (SpringSource/VMware/@glaforge) "What's New in Groovy 2.0" presentation was in the same conference room (Hilton...

0 replies - 1679 views - 10/22/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Neo4j at SpringOne 2GX 2012 in Washington, DC

 Editor's Note: This post was originally written by Michael Hunger at the Neo4j Blog.   Meet us during this week's (Oct 15-18) SpringOne 2GX 2012...

0 replies - 1956 views - 10/21/12 by Andreas Kollegger in Articles

Setting Up MongoDB on a Mac

MongoDB is a document oriented, NoSQL database. It is gathering momentum and popularity amongst developers because it is flexible, and scalable at the same...

0 replies - 3266 views - 10/20/12 by Andy Hawthorne in Articles

The Startup vs. Big Company Mindset

Paul Graham wrote a great post on startups that is definitely worth reading (in spite of its length). One of the interesting quotes in this text is:...

0 replies - 2314 views - 10/20/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

NoSQLUnit 0.5.0 released!

NoSQLUnit is a JUnit extension to make writing unit and high-level tests of systems that use NoSQL as backend easier. Visit the official page for more...

0 replies - 3691 views - 10/19/12 by Alex Soto in Articles

Beware of the Cobra Effect when Increasing Heap Size

The term ‘Cobra effect’ stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was concerned about the number...

0 replies - 5338 views - 10/19/12 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

NoSQL Week in Review #2

Welcome to the second edition of DZone's This Week in NoSQL.  New Releases This Week:MongoHQ We’ve been developing an entirely new set of web tools for the...

0 replies - 3271 views - 10/19/12 by Allen Coin in Articles

Why All Web Devs Need To Prepare Their Sites for IE10 and Windows 8

October 26th 2012 is the big day for Microsoft: the launch of Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10 and the Microsoft’s tablet: the Surface. From an OS and an...

3 replies - 30493 views - 10/19/12 by Maximiliano Firtman in Articles

Understanding JVM Internals, from Basic Structure to Java SE 7 Features

The contentof this article was originally written by Se Hoon Park on the Cubrid blog.   Every developer who uses Java knows that Java bytecode runs in a JRE...

2 replies - 24872 views - 10/18/12 by Esen Sagynov in Articles