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Dev of the Week: Tim Spann

Every week, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community here and in our newsletter, catching up to find out what they're working on...

0 replies - 3498 views - 06/12/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

NextReports 6.1 Released

NextReports Suite  has reached version 6.1.Users can now create a CSV data source to create queries, reports and charts on data inside text files.A new...

0 replies - 1869 views - 06/12/13 by Mihai Dinca - P... in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Genetic Algorithms, Pt. 2 - Making It Run

We’re going to do something that initially seemed hard to me. Given a formula let’s find the formula for its indefinite integral. In this previous post I...

0 replies - 6057 views - 06/11/13 by Justin Bozonier in Articles

The Weight of Code

From Bjorn Freeman-Benson’s talk Airplanes, Spaceships, and Missiles: Engineering Lessons from Famous Projects Bjorn is discussing the ferrite core...

0 replies - 2010 views - 06/11/13 by John Cook in Articles

Running Coded UI Tests in a Virtual Machine

Code UI Tests are an effective way to test your UI through automation -- they absolutely are not a substitution for Unit Testing, but...

0 replies - 1237 views - 06/11/13 by Ricci Gian Maria in Articles

The Mobilecast: CISO and the Art of Mobility

  Your browser does not support the audio element. Download the MP3 Date: June 10, 2013 By: Brian Katz Description: Brian Katz...

0 replies - 1095 views - 06/11/13 by Brian Gracely in Articles

Does Code Quality Really Help the Business?

Most organizations have started to realize that code quality is an important root cause to many of their issues, whether it’s incident levels or...

0 replies - 5436 views - 06/10/13 by Pete Pizzutillo in Articles

An Introduction to Machine Learning

This introductory lecture from Stanford's Andrew Ng explores the basics of Machine Learning:

0 replies - 2570 views - 06/10/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

There is No Such Thing as an Absolute Best Architecture

I’ve been surprised this week by a colleague’s comment regarding how a piece of software had been architectured. He found it too much procedural and ...

2 replies - 2489 views - 06/10/13 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Tutorial: UITableView with Search Bar in Xcode 4.6

This twelve-minute screencast walks through working with UITableView in Xcode 4.6:

0 replies - 910 views - 06/10/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

On Friction in Software

I was pointed out to this article about friction in software, in particular, because I talk a lot about zero friction development. Yet the post show a...

0 replies - 2065 views - 06/09/13 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

99.58% Uptime with Android MiniPCs, Azure, and WordPress

My Android MiniPCs and TVBoxes blog runs WordPress on WebMatrix with Super Cache on Windows Azure Web Site (WAWS) Preview with ClearDB’s MySQL...

0 replies - 2134 views - 06/09/13 by Roger Jennings in Articles

Expecting Big Change with New Technologies? Good Luck Waiting.

Change has always been one of the most important wheels driving the IT industry.IT product vendors, systems integrators, technology vendors, a plethora of...

0 replies - 1363 views - 06/07/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (June 7)

Data through a PRISM  Yesterday the Guardian revealed that the US National Security Agency draws huge volumes of telecommunications metadata from...

0 replies - 4733 views - 06/07/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Testing with Hudson/Jenkins: Problems Running X11 Sessions Concurrently

So we are running a quite a bit of automated UI testing and we have found over a large number of concurrent test nodes that even when the Xvnc plugin has...

0 replies - 2301 views - 06/07/13 by Gerard Davison in Articles