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"We Accept Pull Requests"

There are times when the industry in which I find myself does things that I just don't understand.Consider, for a moment, this blog by Jeff Handley,...

0 replies - 2461 views - 02/27/13 by Ted Neward in Articles

The Golden Rules of Code Documentation

Here’s another topic that is highly subjective, that leads to heated discussions, to religious wars and yet, there’s no objective right or...

4 replies - 6098 views - 02/27/13 by Lukas Eder in Articles

Understanding TCP/IP Network Stack & Writing Network Apps

We cannot imagine Internet service without TCP/IP. All Internet services we have developed and used at NHN are based on a solid basis, TCP/IP....

0 replies - 3859 views - 02/27/13 by Esen Sagynov in Articles

Exact Chaos

Pick a number x between 0 and 1. Then repeatedly replace x with 4x(1-x). For almost all starting values of x, the result exhibits...

0 replies - 476 views - 02/27/13 by John Cook in Articles

Super Storm Sandy and 100% Uptime

In the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy, this panel of CTOs from AppNexus, adMarketplace, Tapad, x+1 and Aerospike discussed issues and best practices in...

0 replies - 1259 views - 02/27/13 by Claire Umeda in Articles

Q&A From Building a DevOps Team That Isn't Evil

We had more questions in our live (and now available on-demand) webinar  ”Building a DevOps Team that Isn’t Evil” than I could get to. What...

0 replies - 1473 views - 02/27/13 by Eric Minick in Articles

Regular Expressions Cookbook: Book Review

I've never been really good with regular expressions, especially once it gets beyond the basics. But they're unavoidable, and undeniably useful. If you're like...

0 replies - 2305 views - 02/27/13 by James Sugrue in Articles

A Simple Suggestion to Radically Improve Your Package Structure

A burning issue. Here's the thing. In Java, all classes can see all the public classes in all other packages. This blushing promiscuity...

6 replies - 3598 views - 02/26/13 by Edmund Kirwan in Articles

Code Quality Stage Using Jenkins

In Continuous Delivery each build is potentially shippable. This fact implies among a lot of other things, to assign a none snapshot version to your...

0 replies - 3210 views - 02/26/13 by Alex Soto in Articles

The Impact of Real-Time Big Data on Business

In the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy, this panel of CTOs from AppNexus, adMarketplace, Tapad, x+1 and Aerospike discussed issues and best practices in...

0 replies - 1805 views - 02/26/13 by Claire Umeda in Articles

Using the Libjars Option with Hadoop

When working with MapReduce one of the challenges that is encountered early-on is determining how to make your third-part JAR’s available to the map and...

0 replies - 2095 views - 02/26/13 by Alex Holmes in Articles

Executing a Command Line Executable From Java

In this post we'll deal with a common need for Java developers. Execute and manage an external process from within Java. Since this task is quite common we set...

4 replies - 8557 views - 02/26/13 by Nadav Azaria in Articles

Text Processing, Part 2: Oh, Inverted Index

This is the second part of my text processing series.  In this blog, we'll look into how text documents can be stored in a form that can be easily...

0 replies - 1631 views - 02/26/13 by Ricky Ho in Articles

The Mule Enterprise Console REST API

When building Mule architectures a company will often need to run several instances of Mule ESB: Some on QA, some on staging, and on production, perhaps some...

0 replies - 1182 views - 02/26/13 by Nahuel Dalla Vecchia in Articles

Shipping Greatness: Book Review

Something every developer and team aspires to is shipping great software. But as we all know, it doesn't always work out that way. So what can we learn from...

0 replies - 1749 views - 02/25/13 by James Sugrue in Articles