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Appreciation for Plain Text Files

My attitude toward plain text files:

0 replies - 1750 views - 03/23/13 by John Cook in Articles

Using XText to make Software Easy to Configure

The meaning of ConfigurationImagine a piece of software which can be run out of the box without needing any instance- specific information – without any...

2 replies - 6720 views - 03/22/13 by Paul Wells in Articles

Using Salt Stack in the Cloud

This Google Hangout session discusses using Salt Stack in the cloud:

0 replies - 1508 views - 03/22/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Dependency Antipatterns – God Node

I wrote before about the dependency analysis and visualization tool Degraph. When you use such a tool to examine various...

2 replies - 4738 views - 03/22/13 by Jens Schauder in Articles

A Look at Netbeans Support for Upcoming Language Enhancements in Java 8

While I was working on the samples for this post using the Nebeans nightly builds with support for Lambda Expressions downloaded from here. I found that the...

0 replies - 1261 views - 03/22/13 by Mohamed Sanaulla in Articles

How to Backport Packages on Ubuntu Linux

Backporting is a process to get new package releases to run on non-latest Linux distribution versions. A very common backporting use case is to enable the...

0 replies - 1317 views - 03/22/13 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles

BigQuery Gets 'Big JOIN' and More New Features

Google recently announced some major new features for its BigQuery analytics tool, including SQL-esque join and aggregate functionality, native TIMESTAMP...

0 replies - 2074 views - 03/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Tennis, Scala, and Expectation Propagation Bayesian Inference

Here's a tutorial on modelling skills of tennis players with TrueSkill rating model in...

0 replies - 633 views - 03/21/13 by Daniel Korzekwa in Articles

Preparing for Google Reader Going Away

As you’ve probably heard, Google has announced that they’re discontinuing Google Reader on July 1. Most of you who subscribe to this blog use Google Reader...

0 replies - 1721 views - 03/20/13 by John Cook in Articles

The AWS Olypmics: Speed Testing Amazon EC2 And S3 Across Regions

So many of the web services we build and use today store and deliver their data using AWS S3. When we first began designing Takipi, we decided to...

0 replies - 1029 views - 03/20/13 by Chen Harel in Articles

New Open Source Project SQL Result Mapper

I'm using JPA, Hibernate and JDBC in my daily work and I always irritated that there i nothing like JPQL constructor expression in native queries. Therefore I...

0 replies - 573 views - 03/19/13 by Simon Martinelli in Articles

Dynamic Vagrant Nodes

I use vagrant a lot and at Zapier I use a setup where one Vagrantfile can be used to launch any instance in our infrastructure locally for testing....

0 replies - 814 views - 03/19/13 by James Carr in Articles

Hadoop Will Not Mow Your Lawn

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." - Jeff Hammerbacher ex- Facebook Architect It turns out...

0 replies - 4116 views - 03/19/13 by Chris Keene in Articles

Quick and Dirty Forking

I’ve often come across a github hosted repo that was purely client side, but didn’t have a hosted demo. Maybe a simple JavaScript library, or a CSS effect,...

0 replies - 1949 views - 03/19/13 by R S in Articles

Solr Unleashed: Mission Accomplished

This past Wednesday and Thursday (March 13th and 14th) OpenSource Connections held an on-site 2-day Solr training course called Solr Unleashed. We covered...

0 replies - 867 views - 03/18/13 by John Berryman in Articles