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Open Data Backed by Source Control

Source-control backing is a decade-long obsession of mine. Now I'm thinking about “open data.” If something can be represented by a textual document, is...

0 replies - 3910 views - 04/30/13 by Paul Hammant in Articles

Treat Servers as Cattle: Spin them up, tear them down

A few agos I wrote a post about treating servers as cattle, not as pets in which I described an approach to managing virtual machines at uSwitch...

0 replies - 6276 views - 04/30/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Fallacies of Massively Distributed Computing

In the last few years, we see the advent of highly distributed systems. Systems that have clusters with lots of servers are no longer the sole realm of the...

0 replies - 3597 views - 04/30/13 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in Articles

Git Bisect in Action

Today it is time for a screencast where I show an amazing git command, called git bisect. Git bisect command command...

0 replies - 1404 views - 04/30/13 by Alex Soto in Articles

m2eclipse Doxia editor

Just rebuilding Eclipse and thought I’d upgrade to the latest version of m2eclipse. However, it would seem like the latest version has dropped support...

0 replies - 1442 views - 04/30/13 by Dan Haywood in Articles

Interview with Hans Dockter: Gradle, Android, and DevOps

Here's a recent interview with Hans Dockter, founder of Gradle  and Gradleware. We talked about the new Android plugin,...

0 replies - 1437 views - 04/29/13 by Tim O'brien in Articles

Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/29)

NASA’s Android Satellites With its current budget, NASA has to get creative. So they took a few Nexus Ones, strapped them to a rocket with some solar...

0 replies - 3752 views - 04/29/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

The Art of Teaching

PrefaceThe following article is an article that I wrote duing my studies for a bachelor degree in Software Engineering. Minor changes might have been made to...

0 replies - 2691 views - 04/29/13 by Filip Ekberg in Articles

Understanding Solr Soft Commits And Data Durability

I ran into an interesting problem today. I was working with the first project where we legitimately needed Solr soft commits and in testing my configuration I...

0 replies - 1405 views - 04/29/13 by John Berryman in Articles

Visualisation – the key that unlocks data’s value?

As the Big Data hype machine continues its relentless attempt to gobble everything in its path, new business units and entire new domains buying into the...

0 replies - 2138 views - 04/29/13 by Paul Miller in Articles

LinkedIn TechTalk: Machine Learning Basics

Via LinkedIn TechTalks, Rob Bekkerman delves into the basics of machine learning:

0 replies - 543 views - 04/28/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

DataBoss Review

I've managed to get my hands on a copy of Luis Majano's DataBoss and wanted to post some thoughts on it.Although DataBoss is the work of the ColdBox...

0 replies - 530 views - 04/28/13 by John Whish in Articles

Develop a MongoDB Application with ZK & Grails

Introduction In this article, I'll show you how to create a MongoDB application using the new version of ZKGrails, ZKGrails 2.2. This application...

0 replies - 3864 views - 04/28/13 by Chanwit Kaewkasi in Articles

Hello Maps: A Five Minute iOS App with the Google Maps SDK

In this short and sweet tutorial, Google's Mano Marks shows you how to build a simple "Hello Maps!" starter app for iOS, using the Google Maps SDK.

0 replies - 2067 views - 04/28/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Quickly Connect to Salesforce API With New Plug-ins in Appery.io

Using Salesforce API Plug-in in Appery.io Connecting to Salesforce API to display contact list in a mobile app sss

0 replies - 1801 views - 04/28/13 by Max Katz in Articles