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If You're Just Monetizing Your Data, You're Doing It Wrong

With Big Data in the news all day, you would think that having a lot of high quality data is a guarantee for new revenues. However, asking yourself how to...

0 replies - 1544 views - 12/28/12 by Maarten Ectors in Articles

Some Advice for New University Graduates w/ Dreams of Developing Software

I have taken a step back in an attempt to put the year 2012 in focus. As always, it started with great hopes and there were highs and it seemed for a moment,...

0 replies - 8127 views - 12/28/12 by Peter Pilgrim in Articles

IDE in a Cloud: A Tribute to Cloud Fashion or Imminency of IDE?

Cloud-mania was something that many people thought would never affect their lives, but it actually did. Gone are the days of huge movie and music collections...

0 replies - 5681 views - 12/28/12 by Eugene Ivantsov in Articles

Weekly Poll: Development in 2013

For the finale in our "End of 2012" series, we want to know what the DZone audience thinks is going to be big in 2013. You'll get to see the instant results...

0 replies - 9404 views - 12/28/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

SQL Azure Federations and Open Source Software

 One of the things that will be introduced in the next update to SQL Azure is a database sharding solution called SQL Azure Federations. Brian and I...

0 replies - 515 views - 12/27/12 by Larry Franks in Articles

My End of the World Post

With the coming and passing of the predicated date of the Mayan apocalypse, I got to thinking about what kind of final advice I would leave the development...

0 replies - 3366 views - 12/27/12 by John Sonmez in Articles

Connected to the Community

 My previous entry spoke of an open source project’s responsibility to keep their community informed. In that entry, I focused on a big part of a...

0 replies - 1633 views - 12/27/12 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Jez Humble on Scaling DevOps

Jez Humble, co-author of Continuous Delivery, speaks on implementing and scaling DevOps: In this talk, Jez discusses how devops can be implemented...

0 replies - 1234 views - 12/26/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

What Scales Better, the Internet or an ESB?

 I love this quote in Jack Vaughan's Techtarget coverage of the Vordel API Server launch: An API server can provide the policy governance to ensure...

0 replies - 2162 views - 12/25/12 by Mark O'neill in Articles

Checking Out What is New With Servlet 3.0

With the JEE6 specification hitting the market, some major changes have taken place with respect to how you would approach developing applications in the...

2 replies - 2042 views - 12/24/12 by Dinuka Arseculeratne in Articles

Two Helpful Data Concepts

I’ve been batting around a couple terms while talking about various technical solutions for years, and I’ve found them useful while selecting and...

0 replies - 478 views - 12/24/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles

The Problem with Women - A Technical Approach

As well as talking about, you know, actual work-type-stuff, I was encouraged to give my "Technical Approach to Women" presentation at Devoxx. This went so well...

0 replies - 310 views - 12/24/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles

Do We Really Need the DAO?

This may seem like a stupid question, especially after years of carefully creating them. Yet these thoughts about DAO arose in my mind when I watched Adam...

6 replies - 4864 views - 12/23/12 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Smartphone Voice Dictation Showdown: iOS vs. Android vs. WP

In the last year, voice control has grown more and more prominent in the major smartphone platforms. So how do Siri, Google Now, and WP8's voice recognition...

0 replies - 1667 views - 12/23/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles

On Knowledge

Back during the Bush-Jr Administration, Donald Rumsfeld drew quite a bit of fire for his discussion of knowledge, in which he said (loosely paraphrasing)...

0 replies - 1819 views - 12/22/12 by Ted Neward in Articles