LINQ is one of Microsoft’s .NET Framework’s most distinct language features. When it was first introduced to languages such as C#, it required heavy...
2 replies - 8262 views - 08/10/12 by Lukas Eder in Articles
Many organizations struggle to understand how their business
performs. In an attempt to gain operational visibility and situational
awareness, teams have...
0 replies - 2921 views - 08/10/12 by Chris Haddad in Articles
For the last 5 weeks or so I’ve been working with puppet
every day to automate the configuration of various nodes in our stack
and my most interesting...
0 replies - 2177 views - 08/09/12 by Mark Needham in Articles
I attended (one way or another) two events last week that got me thinking
The first was Girl Developers will Save the World - a session that...
0 replies - 2389 views - 08/09/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles
If some programmers really are 10 times more productive, how come that the 1x programmers get hired and manage to keep the jobs?
I recently read...
8 replies - 15620 views - 08/09/12 by Anders Abel in Articles
The content of this article was originally written by Adron Hall on the New Relic blog. Welcome to a double feature blog entry for Part 3. I’ve gotten a lot...
0 replies - 2108 views - 08/08/12 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles
Big data is getting a lot of buzz lately, but small data is
interesting too. In some ways it’s more interesting. Because of limit
theorems, a lot of...
0 replies - 3276 views - 08/08/12 by John Cook in Articles
This is a fictitious conversation, I envisioned yesterday between a big e-commerce company and their CDN provider.
“Dear CDN,...
0 replies - 3467 views - 08/08/12 by Mehdi Daoudi in Articles
Michael O. Church recently wrote a thought provoking blog post, “Don’t Waste Your Time in Crappy Startup Jobs“,
and the author clearly put a lot of...
0 replies - 1863 views - 08/08/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles
This is a rehash of a topic I posted about back in 2008 but it is just as relevant today.
When you work towards a release or some other looming milestone....
2 replies - 9829 views - 08/07/12 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in Articles
It’s been a week since I posted “Advice From A JUG Leader – Learn a Different Language”
and it seems to have ruffled at least a few feathers in the...
4 replies - 1894 views - 08/07/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles
A few weeks ago, I opened the 2012 State of Clojure survey. Per usual,
I wanted to take the Clojure community’s collective...
0 replies - 2301 views - 08/07/12 by Chas Emerick in Articles
The cry of “Java is Dead” has been heard for many years now,
yet Java still continues to be among the most used
languages/ecosystems. I am not here...
14 replies - 11295 views - 08/07/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles
Staying strong, the "Heroes of Java"
series reaches the 18th edition. This time it is about Çağatay Çivici
who is the inventor and lead...
0 replies - 2648 views - 08/07/12 by Markus Eisele in Articles
Data analysis has to start from some set of assumptions. Bayesian
prior distributions drive some people crazy because they make
assumptions explicit that...
0 replies - 2002 views - 08/06/12 by John Cook in Articles
