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Brent Stineman07/22/12
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"Pushing" Notifications on Azure Service Bus

So the last several projects I’ve worked on, I’ve wanted to have a push notification system that I could use to send messages to role instances so that they could take actions.

Christian Posta07/22/12
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A “Useful” Model For Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

Object Oriented Analysis and Design is certainly not new to the enterprise software workforce, but how is it actually carried forth in industry? Are software engineering groups reaping the benefits that OOAD claims?

Ben Kepes07/22/12
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My Thoughts on Privacy in a Connected Cloudy World

A month or two ago, I was invited to present at a summit organized by the New Zealand Privacy Commission . . .

Build A Cloud07/22/12
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CloudStack Now Offers MongoDB as a Service

MongoDirector is an end-to-end lifecycle management solution for MongoDB that can be used on CloudStack.

John Esposito07/22/12
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Spring Data Neo4j from Scala

Over at Cake Solutions, Jan Machacek decided to reach out to Neo4j through the graceful abstraction provided through Spring Data Neo4j. But, he is coding it up in Scala. While Java is generally accessible from Scala, Jan points out "some of the sticky points" that you need to consider.

Sean Hull07/21/12
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Data Warehousing – What is it and Why is it Important?

A data warehouse is a special type of database. It is used to store large amounts of data, such as analytics, historical, or customer data, and then build large reports and data mining against it.

John Cook07/21/12
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Unix Doesn’t Follow the Unix Philosophy

The Unix philosophy is a noble idea, but even Unix doesn’t follow it too closely. "Write programs that do one thing and do it well." is one point in the philosophy that is especially strained.

Ofir Nachmani07/21/12
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Cloud Developers are from Mars

The three layers of cloud computing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS occupy the headlines with significant capabilities undergo continuous improvement to host services in the cloud.

Juhani Lehtimaki07/21/12
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Fluid UI - Wireframing for Android

Fluid UI is an amazing online tool for wireframing that has support also for Android. You can easily build rapid prototypes with it. It even allows you to link the pages together and simulate the UI interactions.

Mohamed Sanaulla07/21/12
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Book Review: Scala for the Impatient

Being a newbie with lot of failed efforts to learn Scala, I found this book to be easy to pick Scala concepts and also familiarize with the code.

Johannes Brodwall07/21/12
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Teaser: Bare-knuckle SOA

Here’s the deal: I’ve encountered teams who, when working with SOA technologies have been dragged into the mud by the sheer complexity of their tools. I’ve only seen this in Java, but I’ve heard from some C# developers that they recognize the phenomenon there as well. I’d like to explore an alternative approach.

Sean Hull07/21/12
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Caching – What is it and why is it important?

With MySQL you may configure the query cache, which caches query result sets inside of MySQL, eliminating the need to rerun those queries on subsequent calls.

Sean Hull07/20/12
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High Availability – What is it and why is it Important?

Highly available systems build redundancy into the application and the architecture layers to mitigate against disasters. Since computing systems are made from commodity hardware and components which are prone to failure, having redundancy at every layer is key.

Eric Genesky07/20/12
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A Useful StripedLock from GridGain

This author offers a useful StripedLock code that GridGain regularly uses for locking: the more segments you have, the more concurrency you have.

Dustin Marx07/20/12
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Book Review: The Well-Grounded Java Developer

I was excited about the prospect of The Well-Grounded Java Developer when I initially read about it and it has delivered to a level matching even those high expectations. This is that rare book I'm always on the lookout for that stretches me as a general Java developer.