I was reading this article by Neil Mcallister on his Fatal Exception blog entitled "How to get developers to document their code". Now it begs the question: What documentation is actually useful?
6 replies - 2232 views - 02/06/12 by Julian Exenberger in Articles
Many have argued that Source Code is a liability - something you just have to deal with to produce business value. The more code you have the more effort to maintain it, right? Jim Bird argues that none of this changes the fact that Source Code is still an asset.
4 replies - 3578 views - 02/03/12 by Jim Bird in Articles
Every time you come across anything more than a rudimentary system that has some moderately serious performance needs, someone somewhere on the team considers using asynchronous processing to help reduce (perceived) response time.
0 replies - 1654 views - 02/03/12 by Frank Kelly in Articles
Today, Lucid Imagination releases LucidWorks Cloud, a SaaS version of their LucidWorks Enterprise platform, for general availability.
0 replies - 1855 views - 02/01/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles
Maybe its just because I’m following Simon Brown on twitter, but I saw a phrase like “just the right amount up-front design” often enough to make me think.
Am I doing the right amount of up-front design?
I never before thought about this question in my...
0 replies - 1502 views - 01/26/12 by Jens Schauder in Articles
So far we’ve learned how to get Neo4j up and running with Neography, how to find friends of friends and degrees of separation with the Neo4j REST API and a little bit of the
0 replies - 2783 views - 01/24/12 by Max De Marzi in Articles
I’m taking part in a course of Specification by Example, lead by Gojko Adzic.
Here I want to summarize the key things I’ve learned in the first day
of this entertaining and fruitful course thanks to both Gojko and my
co-participants.
2 replies - 1467 views - 01/24/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles
I was a young budding developer when I was first introduced to the concept of Cache. My Senior Architect then told me
Cache is a component that will magically store data so
that future requests of that same data will not be to the Remote Server,
and hence...
3 replies - 2090 views - 01/23/12 by Kapil Viren Ahuja in Articles
Ian Robinson, the Director of Customer Success for Neo Technologies, the commercial backer of Neo4j, presented on the changing properties of the data...
0 replies - 2063 views - 01/20/12 by Christopher Smith in Videos
Although many tutorials focus on development with Cassandra, this presentation by Nathan Milford concerns Cassandra for SysAdmins.Nathan Milford...
0 replies - 1379 views - 01/20/12 by Eric Genesky in Videos
This is the third and final installment of the Neo4j on Heroku tutorial. After reading this, you should be ready to go out there and start hacking on Neo4j and then deploying your apps to Heroku.
0 replies - 1526 views - 01/19/12 by Max De Marzi in Articles
I think you have heard me say it before, but in this case I think
repetion is needed: We should be much more innovative in the database
world. And no, I am not talking NoSQL here, not at all. For all the good
things with the NoSQL technologies and the...
2 replies - 3192 views - 01/18/12 by Anders Karlsson in Articles
The problem between dev and ops is primarily a terminology,
communication and respect problem resulting in poor operational support.
The two organizations say common things backed by different
definitions that are not in agreement. For example, would...
2 replies - 3260 views - 01/17/12 by Paul Jenson in Articles
We’re live-blogging from MongoSV today. Here’s a link to the entire series of posts.
The actual title of this talk is “There’s a Moster in My Closest”,
but I thought the subtitle would be more elucidating. This talk is
packed! Actually, all of...
0 replies - 2978 views - 01/16/12 by Mike Dirolf in Articles
