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Michael Sahota05/06/13
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How to Build a Culture Bubble

The post is about how one can create a bubble of a new culture inside of an existing organization. For example, this may be used by a group interested in developing an innovation and learning culture inside a typical bureaucratic organization. This post is a continuation of my earlier post on how to Build Culture Adapters to Avoid Agile Failure.

Nicolas Frankel05/06/13
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Deployit, Deployment Automation Made Easy

There’s no magic in how Deployit works, it uses existing parts of modern development environments, most notably CI servers. The only requirement is to have a dedicated Maven project that creates so-called DAR archives, which are nothing more than ZIP files wrapping all resources mandatory for a deployment.

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 7)

Run Ruby in-browser, see 2 views of a chessboard in Python, and find out if video codecs will be written in JavaScript in the future. Plus, take a look at Oculus Rift simulations and learn about Dropbox's first conference.

Bilgin Ibryam05/06/13
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Live Photo Streaming from Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr

Streamed millions of images, had more than 1024 visitors on my blog and 5 comments - not bad. All that with less than 128 lines of Camel code, a little javascript to rotate the images on the client side and powered by free AWS micro instance.

Itamar Syn-hershko05/06/13
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Hebrew Search with ElasticSearch

Hebrew search is not an easy task, and HebMorph is a project I started several years ago to address that problem. After a certain period of inactivity I'm back actively working on it. I'm also happy to say there are already several live systems using it to enable Hebrew searches in their applications.

Ross Mason05/06/13
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Prepare Your Documents: CMIS Connector Is Here!

CMIS is an open standard that allows different content management systems to inter-operate over the Internet. Specifically, CMIS defines an abstraction layer for controlling diverse document management systems and repositories using web protocols.

Chase Seibert05/06/13
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Happybase Connection Pooling

Wrote a simple connection pool for Happybase using socketpool...

Ayende Rahien05/06/13
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Raven's Storage: Memtables are Tough

Memtables are conceptually a very simple thing. You have the list of values that you were provided, as well as a skip list for searches.

Christopher Taylor05/06/13
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Who needs Apple if everything is a mobile device?

Why should humans ‘carry’ a single mobile device when everything we come into contact with can be the point of interaction?

Allen Coin05/06/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss (May 6)

Today: The best usability testing strategy EVER!, Java EE7 is ready!, Eric Schmidt thinks the internet has already surpassed television, and a free high-quality computer science education.

Lukas Eder05/06/13
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SQL Query Transformation Fun: Predicates with Row Value Expressions

Recently, I’ve blogged about how well jOOQ’s supported databases implement row value expressions and predicates formed from them.

Martin Fowler05/06/13
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Story Tests

Story tests are Business Facing Tests used to describe and verify the software delivered as part of a User Story.

Michal Jastak05/06/13
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JPA - Basic Projections

In my last post: JPA - Should I become a laziness extremist? - I mentioned about the possibilities of improving JPA usage - one of them is using Projections.

Mitch Pronschinske05/06/13
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Android for Enterprise: Does it fit the Bill?

In this presentation from AppForum 2012, Marko Gargenta explores key points of Android and its use as an enterprise tool, including an overview of the stack, a "Hello, World!" example, security, and enterprise features.

Aaron Nichols05/06/13
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DevopsDays 2013 - We Are Avoiding Culture, Why?

I just got back from Devops Days Austin. It was a really good conference. I think I enjoyed the speakers and Open Spaces at this event more than I did at Devops Days Mountain View last year. Huge props to the organizers and speakers for putting together such a great set of topics.