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Arthur Charpentier04/11/13
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Diary of an Addict

After four days offline, I have to face the truth: I am a computer addict. Here is a diary of the last four days, ostensibly without touching my computer, at work and at home.

Giorgio Sironi04/10/13
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Recently I found myself sending more and more business metrics to Datadog , a Software as a Service solution that promises to collect all your data points and build business metrics, displaying them as graphs and triggering alerts whenever they get to critically low (or high) levels.

Eric Gregory04/10/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/10)

Today: Reactive.js, solid state on the cheap, and the successor to Meego, plus arguments against data dictatorship and complacent cartography in web design.

Mitch Pronschinske04/07/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/8)

More about asm.js from John Resig and also some amazing benchmarks for comparing a ton of different web frameworks. Plus Rackspace is suing patent trolls and a blogger explores what is really necessary in a programming language.

Leigh Shevchik04/05/13
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Ward Cunningham Joins New Relic

In his prestigious career, Ward Cunningham has worn many hats: inventor of the Wiki, co-creator of Extreme Programming, Code For a Better World Fellow, CTO, published author, and more. But we think he may have save the best for last — Staff Engineer at New Relic.

Allen Coin04/05/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/5)

Today: Programming is terrible, but what can you do about it? An interview with Alan Key, the new Facebook Home, and the story behind O'Reilly's book cover animals.

Mitch Pronschinske04/04/13
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Erlang: Noob to Production in 2 Months

James learned Erlang because he wanted to make some minor customizations to ejabberd. Before he knew it, he was putting thousands of lines of his own code in to production. In this talk, James will discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of writing and running his first Erlang service.

Paul Hammant04/04/13
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Maintained Divergence

Simply put, Maintained Divergence is where you have two branches that have a common origin, and while merges may happen in either direction, there are differences that remain over time.

Pat Shaughnessy04/04/13
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Ruby 2.0 Works Hard So You Can Be Lazy

Ruby 2.0’s new lazy enumerator feature seems like magic. In case you haven’t tried it yet, it allows you to iterate over an infinite series of values and take just the values you want.

Mitch Pronschinske04/04/13
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Building an Asynchronous Communication Layer w/ XMPP, Ruby, Javascript

Get an introduction to Strophe.js, XMPP4R, and ejabberd, which are the XMPP components that we use to integrate our device automation framework and living room devices under test.

Eric Gregory04/03/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/4)

Today: A new fork of WebKit from Google, a big security update for Postgres, new releases for R and Rust, and some very exciting positrons.

Rodrigo De Castro04/02/13
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Ask DZ: What Do You Like to See in a Software Engineer Job Posting?

I've always been curious to see job descriptions when someone reaches out to me about software engineer (or related) positions. Most of them don't really have anything uncommon, but sometimes you see something in them that could be an indication of the company's philosophy on software development.