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Fast Feedback

Writing good software is all about getting feedback, quickly. Does it compile? Does it function? Does it build? Does it deploy? Does...

0 replies - 1563 views - 10/08/12 by David Green in Articles

On Open Source Cloud Adoption

Last week Lydia Leong from Gartner published an analyst report with some opinions on Open Stack. I’ve been critical in the past about traditional analyst...

0 replies - 2423 views - 10/08/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

The Cloudcast - Ep. 58: Build a Cloud Day Roundtable

Download the MP3 Date: October 1, 2012 By: Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely Description: Aaron talks to the organizers and presenters for Build a Cloud...

0 replies - 1926 views - 10/08/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

Apple Mac Time Machine Runs Very Slowly

Not a lot of people know this, but I write many of my blogs in The Wolverhampton Art Gallery’s cafe: the food’s really good and, for a provincial art...

2 replies - 2825 views - 10/08/12 by Roger Hughes in Articles

Enterprise Data Architecture and Big Data

Do you have a data architecture? As I meet customers, it’s dawning on me that IT leadership is not paying attention to fundamentals like Enterprise Data...

0 replies - 4210 views - 10/07/12 by Ravi Kalakota in Articles

PowerMock, Features and Use Cases

Even if you don’t like it, your job sometimes requires you to maintain legacy applications. It happened to me (fortunately rarely), and the first thing I...

0 replies - 2966 views - 10/07/12 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

The Big Data Analytics Landscape

As a technologist and evangelist working in the big data marketplace, I'm excited by the new products my company brings to market, and how this functionality...

0 replies - 4128 views - 10/06/12 by Donal Daly in Articles

Lucene is Beautiful

So after I finished telling you how much I don’t like the Lucene.net codebase, what's this post about? Well, I don’t like the code, but then again, I...

0 replies - 4988 views - 10/05/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

Our Search for the Perfect Project Management Tool

Originally authored by LockyAs the Project Manager at Smashing Boxes, I would not claim to be an hardened expert with all of the answers,  but I have been...

0 replies - 5708 views - 10/05/12 by Nick Jordan in Articles

Back to Basics in Building Next-Gen Java Apps

Java architects have a plethora of options when choosing architectures and components. You have to consider several aspects of the app when deciding on one...

0 replies - 1135 views - 10/05/12 by Mohan Kumar Muddana in Announcements

Weekly Poll: Project Management Tools

Project management is something that we all have to deal with, and there are dozens of tools out there to try to simplify the process. Determining which of...

0 replies - 5683 views - 10/04/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

The Virtuous Cycle of Being On-Call

… or how you can make on-call for service providers a virtuous cycle. In the tech world, for everything that is running as a service or website...

0 replies - 4153 views - 10/03/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

What? You Don't Spend Most of Your Work Time Coding?!

David Veksler's recent post on less-known truths about programming is great, and I definitely recommend it reading it all the way through. Here, however, I...

1 replies - 11268 views - 10/03/12 by Rodrigo De Castro in Articles

Stop Bashing TypeScript

I was unpleasantly surprised to see all the bashing of the TypeScript language. Like “the last thing I want to see is type errors”, “all these types!...

0 replies - 3208 views - 10/03/12 by Victor Savkin in Articles

What Enterprise Architects and Time Travelers have in Common

Note: This post was inspired by Manfred’s post “You don’t do repository driven development? Where have you been?”. It immediately made me think of...

1 replies - 2886 views - 10/03/12 by Tim O'brien in Articles