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Kin Lane05/05/13
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A Civic Hacker Corps

I've always been told, "If You Don't Vote, You Can't Whine." This is a statement I've heard from hundreds of American citizens that I've encountered throughout my life, across every region of this great country. While I agree with the intent of this statement, I have to declare that it isn't enough!

Paul Miller05/05/13
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Find the Data, Aggregate the Data, Make the Data Useful

Enigma pulls data from tens of thousands of public data sets, and then offers up an interface that makes it pretty straightforward to trawl through the whole lot in search of the data points that you actually need. As the company’s Marc DaCosta introduced it, a “search and discovery platform for public data.”

Joe Stein05/05/13
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Using Scala To Work With Hadoop

Cloudera has a great toolkit to work with Hadoop. Specifically it is focused on building distributed systems and services on top of the Hadoop Ecosystem.

Eric Genesky05/05/13
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Radical NoSQL Scalability with Cassandra

This session from last year's OREDEV developer conference covers Cassandra's data model as well as its query idioms and how to deploy it.

Zemian Deng05/05/13
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How to Bring Pseudo Code to Life

When designing a piece of software, I like to start with some pseudo code first, then work my way out.

Eric Gregory05/05/13
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How Chef Enables Prezi's DevOps Culture

This OpsCode talk from Zsolt Dollenstein explores how major web presentation site Prezi uses Chef to cultivate a DevOps culture.

Martin Fowler05/04/13
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"How do you estimate on an Agile project?" by Martin Folwer and ThoughtWorks

If you’re interested in techniques for estimation, you should take a look at this pdf ebook. It contains half-a-dozen essays on estimating in agile projects, drawn from our experiences with a wide range of clients. We explain approaches based on story points and on story counting, which should give you a good overview for you to explore an approach that will work for you.

Kane Mar05/04/13
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5 Big Scrum Questions – Issue 3

This is the third issue of James Brett‘s 5 Questions. Issue 1 featured Ron Jefferies, and Issue 2 featured Ken Schwaber. From the first issue of 5 Questions ”The ideas was to ask five specific questions to members of the Scrum community and post the their replies.”

Eric D. Schabell05/04/13
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JBoss BRMS Cool Store Demo Part III - BPM and decision tables (video)

In this final video we take a look at the BPM process features, designer and examine how JBoss BRMS integrates decision tables into our online shopping cart application.

German Viscuso05/04/13
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Multiple ad networks with one SDK on Android

I'm going to show you how to display ads using Kii Ads SDK using Google's AdMob as a network example (this one of many ad networks that you can use in the Kii Ad Network). You'll also learn how to programmatically distribute ad serving among different ad networks and regions.