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Jurgen Appelo05/20/13
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Let's Measure Something Meaningless

Measuring something meaningful is hard, so let’s measure something that is meaningless but easy. Like your hours at work!

Rob Williams05/20/13
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Later Safari, for Now

My uses for Google are few to none these days, but sadly, I just can‘t put up with Safari‘s horribly rapacious misuse of resources any longer, so I‘ve started using Chrome.

Build A Cloud05/20/13
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CloudStack University

At Apache CloudStack we recently started an initiative to organize our content into learning modules. We call this initiative CloudStack University.

Eric Genesky05/20/13
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Links You Don't Want to Miss (May 20)

Take a trip to Google Island, check out the Codebunk pair programming tool, and a promise-based ORM for Node.js. Plus: developer wages drop 2%, and Brian Eno on creative problem solving.

Dan Diephouse05/20/13
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Announcing CloudHub availability in Europe

I’m thrilled to announce the availability of CloudHub in Europe. With this announcement, we’re extending the industry-leading CloudHub platform to address the needs of our European customers with dedicated computing resources located in the European Union.

Anders Karlsson05/20/13
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What's the Deal with NoSQL

Everybody seems to be looking at and debating NoSQL these days, and so am I and I thought I'd say a few words about it.

Robert Annett05/20/13
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Maintainable Systems: More on Upgrades

A successful system is going to need upgrading periodically. The user's requirements might change over time, different users might want to use the system, external interfaces may change and, of course, software salespeople will want a reason to charge upgrade fees (I'm such a cynic).

Andreas Kollegger05/20/13
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Using an In-Graph-Alcohol-Percentage-Index

As you may remember, I created a little beer graph some time ago to experiment and have fun with beer, and graphs.

Dalip Mahal05/20/13
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Why Management Declared Deadlines Lead to Disaster

Senior management often rejects software estimates for business reasons. Learn the specific reasons why management declared deadlines will lead to disaster.

Reza Rahman05/20/13
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10 Ways JMS 2 == Less Code

JMS 2 is one of the most significant parts of Java EE 7. One of the principal goals of the JMS 2 API is improving developer productivity by reducing the amount of code to work with JMS

Samidip Basu05/20/13
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It Pays to Do Community ...

It takes effort, persistence & contributions from a lot of folks to build a truly rewarding developer community that benefits everyone involved. This will be a quick post thanking several people that I truly respect & enjoy working with, along with thoughts on running a technical User Group.

Hubert Klein Ikkink05/20/13
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Grails Goodness: Passing Objects to Attributes of Tags in Unit Tests

Unit testing tag libraries in Grails is easy. We can use the applyTemplate() method to execute a tag and check the output.

Raymond Camden05/20/13
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Converting a list of dates into a shorter, combined list

Given a list of dates, how would you rewrite them so that two (or more) consecutive dates are displayed together?

Mohamed Sanaulla05/20/13
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How to Show Links in ADF Messages

In ADF we show popup/inline messages using af:messages tag or popup messages using af:document.

Alex Holmes05/20/13
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Bucketing, Multiplexing and Combining in Hadoop - Part 1

This is the first blog post in a series which looks at some data organization patterns in MapReduce. We’ll look at how to bucket output across multiple files in a single task, how to multiplex data across multiple files, and also how to coalesce data. These are all common patterns that are useful to have in your MapReduce toolkit.