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A Practical, Quick Introduction to Puppet

Victor Savkin05/25/12
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DCI (Data Context Interaction) is a new way to look at object-oriented programming. If you’d like to read some theory to see the difference between DCI and traditional OOP there is a nice article covering the...

Christian Posta05/23/12
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Serious About Your Software Career? Leave your job

In my opinion, you have to experience how problems are solved in different groups, and different companies using different methods, different approaches, etc etc to really become proficient at problem solving

Geoffrey Papilion05/21/12
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9 SSH Do’s and Don’ts

9 tips on when to do (or not do) certain things in secure shell. Some 'do's' include using SSH agents and multiple keys. Some 'don'ts' include leaving your agents running after you log out and copying your private key around.

Stoimen Popov05/21/12
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Algorithm of the Week: Minimum and Maximum

To find the minimum value into an array of items isn’t difficult. There are not many options to do that.

Grigory Javadyan05/18/12
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The Book That Every Programmer Should Read

I am talking about C. Petzold’s “CODE”. It is a truly remarkable book about how computers work. Let me explain why I think this book is so awesome.

Willie Wheeler05/16/12
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Devops: How NOT to Collect Configuration Management Data

In this article we’re going to step away from the keyboard and get architectural. But no ivory towers here. I’m going to give you something that will get you out of lots of pointless meetings. Got your attention yet? Good!

Brian Swan05/15/12
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Cool Cloud Articles: Node.js, Azure, IaaS/PaaS Comparison, and More

The Silver Lining Blog's "Pie in the Sky" series offers readers a list of great links to articles related to current opinions and news on various cloud-related tools, platforms, and topics.

Swizec Teller05/15/12
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My Brain Can’t Handle OOP Anymore

In object-oriented programming everything gets muddled together. Functions are bundled with data, everything is codependent and there’s no telling what a function might do when you call it.

Mitch Pronschinske05/14/12
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OSGi vs. Jigsaw: Kirk Knoernschild on Modularity

Kirk Knoernschild is one of the leading experts when it comes to the OSGi community. DZone recently had a chance ot interview him about his thoughts on modularity in 2012 and his new book is "Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples Using OSGi."

Eric Genesky05/11/12
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Weekly Cloud Roundup

The cloud herd grew by one this week with the announcement of HP's Public Cloud, which brings some new competition to AWS, Azure, Cloud Foundry, and other cloud services. Read on for a few more updates.

Mark O'neill05/10/12
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Pure vs Practical REST

This is a useful table found by Mark O'neill that you may find yourself going back to often, comparing pure REST (such as HATEOAS) with the "practical" REST so often found in the field:

Stoimen Popov05/09/12
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Algorithm of the Week: Determine if a Number is Prime

Stoimen Popov is back with another episode in his Algorithm of the Week series, and this week he tackles prime numbers. Stoimen begins with a very basic (brute force) approach, and then refines his algorithm to be far more effective, though it still works best for smaller numbers.