Eric Genesky06/04/13
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Highlights from Heroku's Waza 2013

Waza is the Japanese word for art and technique. Heroku's Waza (技) conference is a developer event celebrating the art of software development through technical sessions and unique happenings.

Geraint Jones06/04/13
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Exposing and Managing Links with Spring HATEOAS

As a follow up to the previous Spring HATEOAS post, this post will cover how to use the @ExposesResourceFor annotation as an alternative to using the resource's Controller to obtain links.

Ariya Hidayat06/04/13
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UI Patterns of Android News Apps

Modern Android applications tend to follow certain user interface patterns, primarily as described in the official Android UI Guidelines. However, not every application is designed equally. Here we see how three news applications have the overall same look, yet the significant detailed differences are immediately obvious.

Pete Pizzutillo06/04/13
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Individual Code Quality in an Enterprise Software Development World

The growing cost of most software development efforts can be traced back to one underlying cause – the lack of visibility into the software.

Eric Genesky06/04/13
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Sneak Peek: DZone's Definitive Guide to PaaS and IaaS Solutions

Next Monday, DZone Research will publish its first major publication, a definitive guide to PaaS and IaaS solutions.

Sam Taha06/04/13
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Big Data is More than Correlation and Causality

Extracting insights from vast volumes of structured and loosely structured data has many applications, but the ultimate application of this is enabling computing systems to make smart and intelligent decisions with less and less human involvement.

Nicolas Frankel06/04/13
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Modularity in Spring Configuration

In legacy Spring applications I have to develop new features in, I regularly stumble upon a big hindrance that slows down my integration-testing effort. This hindrance, and I’ll go as far as naming it an anti-pattern, is to put every bean in the same configuration file (either in XML or in Java).

Roger Hughes06/03/13
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So, What's in a Story?

I don't know about you, but I always feel a little nervous when it comes to writing Agile stories. I often worry whether I'm the best person to write them and if I've got them right.

Allan Kelly06/03/13
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The Real Lessons of Lego (for Software)

Lets leave aside the fact that software is a damn sight more complex than small plastic bricks, lets leave aside too the fact that Lego makes a fine kids toy but on the whole we don’t use it to build anything we use at work (like a car, bridge or house), and lets pretend these people have a point….

Paul Underwood06/03/13
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Version Control: Git vs SVN

In this post we are going to look at the benefits of working with version control and the difference between two of the most popular version control repositories, GIT and SVN.

Ross Mason06/03/13
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Open for Big Data: When Mule Meets the Elephant

Picture an architecture where production data gets painstakingly replicated to a very expensive secondary database, where, eventually, yesterday’s information gets analyzed. What’s the name for this “pattern”?

Eric Gregory06/03/13
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An Introduction to R for Data Mining

An hour long primer from Revolution Analytics' Joseph Rickert on using R for data mining.

Alex Curylo06/03/13
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iOS Graphic Tweaks Grab-Bag

Check out this unbelievable list of tips and techniques for refining your iOS interface elegance today.

Kane Mar06/03/13
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How a Traditional Project Manager Felt Relief by Doing Scrum.

About 2 years ago I noticed that I no longer recognized some of the more recent Scrum trainers. I really want to get to know the wider Scrum community, and I decided that the way that I would do it would be by doing interviews and then sharing those videos.