Michael Sahota06/10/13
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Epic Games FTW via Jane McGonigal

Jane defines a games as having four important characteristics: a goal, rules, a feedback system (so people know whether they are reaching their goals) and voluntary participation. In Agile and Scrum in particular we promote self-organizing teams where people sign up for work rather than having it assigned.

Singaram Subramanian06/10/13
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Apache XML-RPC: How to configure timeouts in XML-RPC client?

Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a popular protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls.

Dustin Whittle06/10/13
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PHP Performance Crash Course, Part 1: The Basics

In this series I’ll tell you about the strategies and technologies that (in my experience) have been the most successful in improving PHP performance. To start off, however, we’ll talk about some of the easy wins in PHP performance tuning.

Jim Hirschauer06/10/13
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How To Set Up and Monitor Amazon RDS Databases

Relational databases are still an important application component even in today’s modern application architectures. Amazon launched their RDS service which basically allows anyone to spin up a MySQL, Oracle, or MS-SQL instance whenever the urge strikes. While this service is amazingly useful there are also some drawbacks...

Michael Mainguy06/10/13
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Software is Design, How Ruby is Better for that Job than Java

As a long time java developer and ... well ... at this point also a long time ruby developer, I've found some things about the ruby language are much less bothersome than in java.

Sandeep Patel06/10/13
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Drawing Google Chart From Servlet JSON Response

Google provides a Visualization API to draw charts and other components.

Reza Rahman06/10/13
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The Many Ways of Monitoring and Managing GlassFish

Robust facilities for management and monitoring is one of the most significant ways GlassFish shines as compared to most open source Java EE application servers.

Mark Needham06/10/13
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neo4j/cypher 2.0: The CASE statement

I’ve been playing around with how you might model Premier League managers tenures at different clubs in neo4j and eventually decided on the following model:

Seth Proctor06/10/13
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On Being Cloud-Scale

I did a webinar recently with Amazon. The focus was on what makes NuoDB different than other databases and why that means we’re so well-suited to run on AWS.

Pete Pizzutillo06/10/13
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Does Code Quality Really Help the Business?

Most organizations have started to realize that code quality is an important root cause to many of their issues, whether it’s incident levels or time to value.

Dalip Mahal06/10/13
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Who Needs Formal Measurement?

We all know the expression "You can't manage what you can't measure", but do we really understand it?

Eric Gregory06/10/13
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An Introduction to Machine Learning

This introductory lecture from Stanford's Andrew Ng explores the basics of Machine Learning.

Nicolas Frankel06/10/13
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There is No Such Thing as an Absolute Best Architecture

I’ve been surprised this week by a colleague’s comment regarding how a piece of software had been architectured. He found it too much procedural and not enough object-oriented, despite the fact the code was performing exactly as needed. I would have expected this from a junior developer, not from a seasoned one.

Debasish Ghosh06/10/13
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Endo is the new fluent API

Endomorphisms help you lift your computation into a data type that gives you an instance of a monoid. And the mappend operation of the monoid is the function composition.

Rob Sanders06/10/13
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Introducing the DZone definitive guide to Cloud providers

In the past few months, the folks at DZone put a call out to their very talented and knowledgeable MVBs to volunteer to develop a comprehensive guide to current Cloud computing options.