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A Twitter Experiment: @devops_jerk

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I am @devops_jerk. I’m not a jerk – but I have played one on Twitter. On the 15th of October I setup the account on Twitter. Today, not quite 2 months later, I am officially ending the experiment. I learned some interesting things and had a lot of fun...

0 replies - 4981 views - 01/31/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

Sh*t Project Managers Say

Just a few things you may hear from your everyday project manager...

0 replies - 6588 views - 01/23/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

DZone Top Article of 2011: Programmers are f***ing lazy

With the possible exception of philosophers, programmers are the laziest bunch of people I know. It seems like everyone else I speak to has some sort of labor intensive profession. Think about it, biologists do all those experiments … giving a drug to...

16 replies - 11880 views - 01/20/12 by Swizec Teller in Articles

DevOps Tweets of the Week - 12/26

Merry DevOps holidays to you all!  DZone brought you some funny and interesting tweets as a present!@jpoesen: Joery PoesenEvery time you postpone automating dev environment creation, it bites you in the ass. Every. Single. Time. #devops

0 replies - 2482 views - 12/26/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

DevOps Tweets of the Week - 12/5

After the quiet Thanksgiving holiday week here in the States, the the DevOps community on twitter is buzzing again.  More fun and interesting tweets have been compiled once again. Here are some of the best tweets I found from last week. ...

0 replies - 2371 views - 12/05/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

DevOps Tweets of the Week - 11/14

Always entertaining are the insightful or agitated comments from developers and sysadmins on twitter.  The DevOps community has quite a strong twitter presence where plenty of people sound off on what's got them angry or excited.  Here are some of the best...

0 replies - 2983 views - 11/14/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

"Java Life" Music Video

The rap music video made for JavaOne 2011

2 replies - 4497 views - 10/05/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

When Developers Go To Great Length To Save Typing 4 Letters

Heroku is a great platform. Long before I joined and when I say long, I mean in startup terms (i.e. a few weeks before I joined :)) – the decision was made that CrowdHired would be hosted on Heroku. Shortly after I came on board, Heroku released their new...

1 replies - 6372 views - 09/21/11 by Alan Skorkin in News

DZone at Agile 2011: A Manifesto Signatories Q&A

Last night at Agile 2011, DZone was in attendance at "The Big Park Bench" Agile Manifesto 10 year anniversary reunion.  At this very special gathering of 15 of the original 17 signatories for the Agile Manifesto, we witnessed a very lively and...

0 replies - 4719 views - 08/09/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

FAERIE DUST™

Here's how to recognize a Faerie Dust request:We have identified a problem. It can be with almost anything: scalability, reliability, auditability, any Quality Measure. We're pursuing a specific technology. Typically, something that has the lowest impact on...

2 replies - 7732 views - 01/28/11 by Steven Lott in News

JSF can be used for several purposes.

 Recently I got a wonderful opportunity to work with JSF and I couldn't stop myself sharing my feeling with everyone.

13 replies - 1282 views - 01/10/11 by Sivaprasadreddy... in News

Psychic Debugging

I think that I am getting too much of these recently:

2 replies - 3682 views - 12/29/10 by Ayende Rahien in News

Daily Dose - Git Usage Spreads Through JBoss and SpringSource

A lot of interest is moving towards Git and leaving Subversion for big names in Java like JBoss and SpringSource.  Spring recently wrote two articles covering Git usage in the Spring developer community, while JBoss recently migrated several projects to Git...

0 replies - 22257 views - 12/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Happy Holidays from DZone!

Thought we'd give you a little more holiday cheer with an appropriate webcomic for programmers.  Happy Holiday's from all of us here at DZone!Associated Text:"He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he's copied on...

0 replies - 19288 views - 12/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Behold! The Battle for Java Earth (Updated)

The geeks here at DZone (I count myself among them) were discussing the recent round of heat that Oracle has been taking in the press and the blogosphere. Then we imagined a world of fantasy where similar struggles were taking place.  This is the Realm of...

15 replies - 12036 views - 11/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles