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Max De Marzi05/15/13
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Knowledge Bases in Neo4j

From the second we are born we are collecting a wealth of knowledge about the world. This knowledge is accumulated and interrelated inside our brains and it represents what we know.

Shay Shmeltzer05/15/13
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Simpler Development with the New List ADF Faces Component in 11.1.1.7

A new component that showed up in the JDeveloper 11.1.1.7 release is the af:listView component. This component will become more and more popular as more people target tablet devices with ADF Faces UI.

Ofir Nachmani05/15/13
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5 Essentials of Cloud Workloads Migration

The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only truly be redeemed with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management.

Michael Sahota05/15/13
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10 Things Executives Need to Know About Agile

Whether you're an executive, or a developer, the leaders of your organization need to look at agile from these ten angles.

Chase Seibert05/15/13
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Introducing Advocoders

Good companies realize they need to involve their engineering team to help recruit. That could mean hosting drink ups, sending the team to conferences and old fashioned professional networking. But what about your engineering blog?

Eric Gregory05/15/13
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Dev of the Week: Michael Sahota

This week we're talking to Michael Sahota, Certified Scrum Master, active member of the Agile community, and co-organizer of Agile Tour Toronto.

Tomasz Nurkiewicz05/15/13
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Lazy sequences implementation for Java 8

I just published the LazySeq library on GitHub - the result of my Java 8 experiments recently. I hope you will enjoy it. Even if you don't find it very useful, it's still a great lesson of functional programming in Java 8 (and in general). Also it's probably the first community library targeting Java 8!

Eric Gregory05/15/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (5/15)

Today: The Universal Bytecode, an old math problem solved, the sound of sorting (algorithms), and a solution for automating development environments. Plus: the long history of selfish generations.

Mark Needham05/15/13
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Book Review: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

Nate Silver is famous for having correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states in the 2012 United States elections and Sid recommended his book so I could learn more about statistics for the A/B tests that we were running.

Eric Gregory05/15/13
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Growing Pains with Chef

From OpsCode, a thirty-minute tale on the triumphs and hurdles Turner Broadcasting System's team encountered as it attempted to implement DevOps and deploy Chef.

Anders Abel05/15/13
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Internet Detox: Going Offline for a Week

If you can’t stand the thought of being disconnected for a week and feel that this post is nothing for you, please keep on reading. This post is definitely for you.

Steven Lott05/15/13
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Legacy Code Preservation: How Do We Manage This?

At an insurance company, I encountered an application that had been in place for thirty years. Classic flat-file, mainframe COBOL. And decades old. It had never been replaced with a packaged solution. It had never been converted to a SQL database. It had never been rewritten in VB to run on a desktop.

Mohamed Sanaulla05/15/13
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Train Wreck Pattern – A much improved implementation in Java 8

Venkat Subramaniam at a talk today mentioned about Cascade Method pattern or Train Wreck pattern which looks something like:someObject.method1().method2().method3().finalResult()

Marko Rodriguez05/15/13
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Educating the Planet and Graph Databases

New data processing technologies and theories in education are moving much of the learning experience into the digital space — into massive open online courses (MOOCs). Two years ago Pearson contacted Aurelius about applying graph theory and network science to this burgeoning space.

Abby Fichtner05/15/13
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Who Are You Imitating?

And so now, as I’m wondering what my next “big thing” will be (no pressure, Abbs) – I also wonder who might be next. Am I exposing myself to enough awesome to let me grow or am I getting too comfortable with who and what I know today?