Mitch Pronschinske07/03/12
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The DevOps Cycle

A straightforward, whiteboard presentation of how the DevOps cycle works in the enterprise. Jody Hunt of BMC explains...

Mitch Pronschinske07/01/12
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Take the HTML5 Poll, Win a DZone Swag Pack!

Are you interested in finding out which HTML5 specs and other emerging web standards are being implemented in todays websites? Interested in seeing if developers are converting many Flash web components to HTML5? You'll get the answer to these and many other questions by answering 11 easy questions in our HTML5 Zone survey.

Jim Bird06/28/12
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Is Copy and Paste Programming Really a Problem?

It’s one of the most cited examples of technical debt, a lazy way of working, sloppy and short-sighted: an antipattern that adds to the long term cost of keeping a code base alive. But it’s also a natural way to get stuff done...

Larry Franks06/27/12
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Windows Azure PowerShell and Ruby Cloud Services

PowerShell is included with the Azure Node.js SDK, but it's also useful for deploying and managing cloud services like RubyRole.

Oliver Hookins06/26/12
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Sinagios – a Very Simple RESTful API for Nagios Downtime

After Oliver Hookins struggled with scheduling and managing downtime sessions, he decided to create an extremely simple RESTful API for manipulating Nagios scheduled downtime.

Open Wave06/26/12
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Move Your Existing Web Application to Rails 3 Versions

Ruby on rails is an opensource web application framwork that is optimized for developers happiness and sustainable productivity.It permits you to write lovely code by favoring convention over configuration.Websites which were developed with old technology can...

Stoimen Popov06/25/12
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Algorithm of the Week: Binary Search Tree

This week's algorithm of the week is in! It encompasses Linked lists. Linked lists are a linear structure and the items are located one after another, each pointing to its predecessor and its successor.

Giorgio Sironi06/25/12
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The Duck is a Lie

Is duck typing a revolution or just going back to jumps and memory locations? What follows is my experience with Java, PHP and Ruby.

Alex Tkachman06/24/12
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Kotlin in action: few tricks for every day use

In this post I would like to show several tricks, which I found to be very useful while develoiping small examples with the Kotlin programming language.

Mitch Pronschinske06/22/12
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Poll: Which Programming Language Needs to Die?

Pretty simple question. Which programming language do you think is bad for the developer community while it's still being used? Or which language do you think has stuck around in the industry for too long?

Oliver Hookins06/19/12
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Puppetmaster Performance Tuning with mod_mem_cache

This was an interesting exercise, especially since I’d had caching and Puppet on the radar for quite some time now but I had not actually had a chance to use it or investigate it. The work paid off and will let our system scale up a whole lot more.

Mark Needham06/19/12
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Algorithm of the Week: Closest Pairs

Here's our Algorithm of the week; new blogger this time and includes Haskell. Enjoy!

Scott Leberknight06/19/12
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Harnessing the Power of the Ruby SDK on AWS

Amazon Web Services offers many SDKs for a range of programming languages. According to this writer, the Ruby SDK is the best one.

Max De Marzi06/18/12
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Bringing Personalization to Your Apps Using Cypher

When we are looking at an unregistered user (somebody just browsing the site) using the Item based recommendation we already built is all we have to go on.

Jonathan Callahan06/17/12
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Learning R — The R Linksheet

When approaching R for the first time it is important to let go of some of what you know about programming. To many programmers, R has annoyingly unexpected behavior: R has several different object types that behave differently in different situations; R remembers things you wouldn’t expect; R package methods, being developed by individuals, don’t always agree on argument names or behavior.