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John Fuex01/05/12
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DZone Top Articles of 2011: The Code Sample (The Programmer’s Guide to Getting Hired)

Why you are being asked for a code sample and what it says about the employer. At some point during the developer recruiting process, any hiring manager with the remotest concept of due diligence is going to attempt to get a preview of what to expect from...

Mitch Pronschinske01/05/12
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DZone's Top 5 Ruby and Python Articles of 2011

This week, DZone has gathered together its top articles in every major topical area. These Ruby and Python articles were chosen based popularity and quality of content. Top Ruby and Python Articles of 2011Track your home's live electricity usage with...

Patrick Debois01/04/12
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Test Driven Infrastructure with Vagrant, Puppet and Guard

This is a repost of my SysAdvent blogpost. It's merely here for archival purposes, or for people who read my blog but didn't see the sysadvent blogpost. Why Lots has been written about Vagrant. It simply is a great tool: people use it as a sandbox...

Ayende Rahien01/04/12
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Why NoSQL is Not Just For Google and Amazon

In fact, for over 30 years or so, the Database Wars have been settled, the relational databases have won the fight, and the decision left was which relational database to use. Everyone “knows” that NoSQL is something that Google invented to handle the...

Carlos Sanchez01/04/12
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About: DevOps

This is the start of a (hopefully) series of posts about DevOps, based on my presentation From Dev to DevOps. The Agile movement stablished a series of development practices quite common nowadays, or at least highly desired:

Stoimen Popov01/03/12
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Algorithm of the Week: Interpolation Search

I wrote about binary search in my previous post, which is indeed one very fast searching algorithm, but in some cases we can achieve even faster results. Such an algorithm is the “interpolation search” – perhaps the most interesting of all searching...

Kris Buytaert01/01/12
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Installing Vagrant, on Ubuntu Natty

(Warning some Ubuntu ranting ahead) apt-get install virtualbox-ose apt-get install rubygems gem install vagrantThat's what I assumed it would take me to install vagrant on a spare Ubuntu (Natty) laptop. Well it's not. after that I was greeted...

Mitch Pronschinske12/30/11
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LWE 2.0.1 Solr Development Platform Released!

The Solr/Lucene development platform produced by LucidImagination - Home to Solr creator Yonik Seeley and long-time Lucene PMC Grant Ingersoll - has reached a new version today that updates a list of key issues. The platform, called "LucidWorks...

Mitch Pronschinske12/29/11
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Apache Whirr 0.7 Arrives with Support for Puppet, Chef, Mahout, and Ganglia

Apache Whirr version 0.7.0 has just been released with some nice new support features for DevOps folks and Machine Learning buffs. The release also fixed 50 issues (4 of them were blockers). Whirr was recently promoted to a Top Level Project at Apache and...

Sara Chipps12/29/11
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There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript

About 3 years ago, I launched my first product. I built it with two fabulous partners, who continue to produce awesome things. It was a little app, and a tool I thought made for better web. It is no longer online, due to costs, it was a URL aggregator...

Francesca Krihely12/29/11
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BSON and Data Interchange

There’s a lot of good things about JSON — it’s a standards based, language independent, representation of object-like data. Also, it’s easy to read (for users and programmers alike). Each document is only about data, not complex object graphs and...

Daniel Doubrovkine12/28/11
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Blame it all on MongoDB

You may have read my previous post about the MongoDB 1.4.x Ruby driver hell.

Nikhil Mungel12/28/11
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DevOps on Rails

Presented earlier this year, we put forth a few practices that we followwhen working with a variety of large enterprise clients on software delivery and...

Stoimen Popov12/27/11
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Algorithm of the Week: Binary Search

The binary search is perhaps the most famous and best suitable search algorithm for sorted arrays. Indeed when the array is sorted it is useless to check every single item against the desired value. Of course a better approach is to jump straight to the...

Mitch Pronschinske12/26/11
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DevOps Tweets of the Week - 12/26

Merry DevOps holidays to you all! DZone brought you some funny and interesting tweets as a present!@jpoesen: Joery PoesenEvery time you postpone automating dev environment creation, it bites you in the ass. Every. Single. Time. #devops