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From Idea to Launch in Months Instead of Years

As the inventor and co-founder of Startups@NSN, I was one of the drivers behind a successful incubation program within a large (70K) and complex multinational....

0 replies - 2564 views - 12/31/12 by Maarten Ectors in Articles

My Personal Package Repository

I’m a big fan of system packages for lots of reasons and have often ended up rolling my own debian package repository at work, or working with...

0 replies - 1512 views - 12/31/12 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles

Personal Off-Site Backups

Unlike many, I’m actually a good boy and do backups of my personal data (for which I can mostly thank my obsessive-compulsive side). However, up until now...

1 replies - 1555 views - 12/31/12 by Oliver Hookins in Articles

GridGain and Hadoop: Differences and Synergies

GridGain is Java-based middleware for in-memory processing of big data in a distributed environment. It is based on high performance in-memory data platform...

0 replies - 1629 views - 12/31/12 by Dmitriy Setrakyan in Articles

Agile at Scale: Atlassian GreenHopper for Large Organizations

Large organizations can handle agile just as well as small ones with the right tools and the acknowledgement that many agile teams does not make an agile...

0 replies - 2575 views - 12/31/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Extreme Change is Easier

This last week I ran across a TED video about a couple who had a house full of stuff and $18,000 in debt. They sold all their stuff except what could...

1 replies - 3233 views - 12/30/12 by John Cook in Articles

Installing Ubuntu 12.10 in a VirtualBox VM

Here are some notes regarding how to install Ubuntu 12.10 in a VirtualBox VM. It contains a set of slides since the process is well represented...

0 replies - 10368 views - 12/30/12 by Andy Hawthorne in Articles

Dennis Nedry and the Human Single Point of Failure

"John, I can't get Jurassic Park back on line without Dennis Nedry." Words you never want to hear uttered.  Unless you work for InGen, it's highly...

0 replies - 2992 views - 12/29/12 by Tom O'connor in Articles

What Will You Do for Free in 2013?

The most frequent conversation I had this year was with colleagues who asked for advice on their "career path". How should they stay motivated? How do they...

0 replies - 4407 views - 12/29/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

What's Wrong with Unix People?

From #zsh @ freenode.net<xxx> I wouldn't ever want to position a cursor using a mouse. not even in an editor. a mouse has its uses. but...

5 replies - 5412 views - 12/28/12 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles

Why Not Emacs?

 Every now and then a “hardcore” programmer comes and mocks you for using a “sissy” tool like Eclipse or IntelliJ. Real programmers use emacs...

4 replies - 4027 views - 12/28/12 by Bozhidar Bozhanov in Articles

Code Coverage Tools Comparison in Sonar

 For those that are not familiar with Sonar, ( I hope this post will make you at least try it or see it in action at http://nemo.sonarsource.org )...

1 replies - 3675 views - 12/28/12 by Patroklos Papapetrou in Articles

CUBRID Database Support to Come to Yii PHP Framework & Propel2 PHP ORM

 Yes, it has been quite a while since Yii and Propel users have been requesting to provide CUBRID Database support. And today I am very happy to...

0 replies - 1259 views - 12/28/12 by Esen Sagynov in Articles

If You're Just Monetizing Your Data, You're Doing It Wrong

With Big Data in the news all day, you would think that having a lot of high quality data is a guarantee for new revenues. However, asking yourself how to...

0 replies - 1551 views - 12/28/12 by Maarten Ectors in Articles

Geolocation: Possibilities, Problems, and Privacy - Part 2

Berkeley ISchool continues its exploration of geolocation's social data challenges and opportunities:

0 replies - 1127 views - 12/28/12 by Eric Gregory in Articles