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How I Got My Kids Into Programming

I’m the father of four wild and crazy kids, and the two older ones are at the age now (4th grade and 1st grade) that I’ve started trying to get them...

3 replies - 10804 views - 12/06/12 by Willie Wheeler in Articles

Session Timeout Handling on JSF AJAX request

When we develop JSF application with AJAX behaviour, we may experience the problem in handling timeout scenario of Ajax request. For example, if you are...

0 replies - 638 views - 12/06/12 by Boris Lam in Articles

Webinar: Processing High Volume Data Feeds with MongoDB

 Hot on the heels of my very first MongoDB webinar, I was... encouraged... to do another.  Here at 10gen we've been running a series of...

0 replies - 1749 views - 12/06/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles

Running Cassandra 1.2-beta on JDK 7 w/ Mac OSX: no snappyjava in java.library.path

 The latest greatest Cassandra (1.2-beta) now uses snappy-java for compression.  Unfortunately for now, Cassandra uses 1.0.4.1 version of...

0 replies - 3329 views - 12/05/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

There's No Such Thing As a DevOps Team?

A few weeks ago Jez Humble wrote a blog post titled “There’s no such thing as a ‘DevOps team’” where he explains what DevOps is actually supposed...

1 replies - 3241 views - 12/05/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Twitter Complex Event Processing with Esper and Drools

Complex event processing engines are a natural fit for event driven platforms like Mule. Native  CEP support has been available in Mule since...

0 replies - 2011 views - 12/05/12 by John D'Emic in Articles

On the Forge

I’ve been spending a bit of time recently pushing a few Puppet modules to the Forge. This is Puppetlabs attempt to make a central repository of reusable...

0 replies - 1782 views - 12/05/12 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles

A Story-Based Approach to "Testing for Continuous Delivery"

Microsoft Downloads - Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012Testing is potentially an obstacle to agile software deployment. The...

0 replies - 2845 views - 12/05/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Real-Time Twitter Heat Map with MongoDB

Over the last few weeks I got in touch with the fascinating field of data visualisation which offers great ways to play around with the perception of...

0 replies - 4040 views - 12/05/12 by Daniel Bartl in Articles

Video: Basics of RequireJS

 I’ve posted a new video, the basics of Require JS.Outline:Intro Jesse WardenSoftware Consultant at Web App Solutiongrowing software firmRequire JSwhy,...

0 replies - 4122 views - 12/05/12 by Jesse Warden in Articles

Forcing Tomcat to log through SLF4J/Logback

So you have your executable web application in JAR with bundled Tomcat (make sure to read that one first). However there are these annoying Tomcat logs at the...

2 replies - 4625 views - 12/04/12 by Tomasz Nurkiewicz in Articles

Should You Trust the Default Settings in JVM?

JVMs are considered smart nowadays. Not much configuration is expected – just set the maximum heap to use in the startup scripts and...

0 replies - 5010 views - 12/04/12 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

Beware G-Wan Snakeoil

I’ve heard quite a bit about the “G-WAN Application Server” over the past few weeks.  Initially it was a Serverfault question that left me thinking...

0 replies - 2599 views - 12/04/12 by Tom O'connor in Articles

Learn Just One Perl Command

A while back I wrote a post Learn one sed command. In a nutshell, I said it’s worth learning sed just do commands of the form sed s/foo/bar/ to replace...

1 replies - 4835 views - 12/04/12 by John Cook in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Longest Increasing Subsequence

Introduction A very common problem in computer programming is finding the longest increasing (decreasing) subsequence in a sequence of numbers (usually...

1 replies - 8472 views - 12/04/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles