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Mitch Pronschinske10/13/11
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AsK DZ: Will Java Make a Comeback?

An interesting prediction of a Java resurgance in web development came from the "I, Cringely" blog. The post was entitled: "The second coming of Java" and here was what author Bob Cringely's theory boiled down to:

Axel Rauschmayer10/10/11
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Google's "Dart" Revealed

Today, it has finally happened: At the GOTO conference, Google has officially presented its new programming language, Dart. This post gives an overview of Dart and provides a few comments on how it fits into the current programming language landscape.

Gareth Rushgrove10/10/11
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Why Developers Should Care About System Packages

First a bit of background. I’m a software developer (lately in Ruby and a tiny bit of Java, previously in Python, C# and PHP; yes I got around a bit), but have spent enough time looking after production hardware (mainly debian, solaris and recently a bit...

Alex Curylo10/06/11
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“Do you create anything?”

You’re all reading this because of Steve Jobs. Our entire adult life has been spent gilding the lilies that Steve Jobs created. No bigger influence on our lives other than the parents … and even that’s somewhat debatable. How does — how can —...

Mitch Pronschinske10/05/11
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HTML5 Zone - A Dojo for Web Ninjas

The Web as a platform is changing faster every day—blink, and you're behind. Just look at the version numbers of browsers lately. This year we started with IE9, Chrome 8, and Firefox 4. Next year, we could see IE11, Chrome 20, and Firefox 12. The...

Patrick Debois10/03/11
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Libvirt Support for Fog

Historically we set out to use Vagrant on the developers laptop. Soon, the complexity of our setup had outgrown the developers laptop and required another solution. As the target platform was based on Amazon EC2, it made sense to create developers...

Wille Faler10/01/11
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Developers Must Feel the Pain of Operations

I firmly believe that software developers not being responsible for their software in production is as damaging, bad and stupid as bankers not being responsible for their losses. To further the analogy by paraphrasing a commonly used derogatory term about...

Jim Moscater09/29/11
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Meet Up With DZone @ JavaOne 2011 and Oracle Open World In San Francisco!!

Interested in being a major player in one of the largest developer communities on the web? Do you have a knack for finding and sharing awesome developer content? Do you want to be a recognized name in your space and a major driver of discussions and knowledge...

Giorgio Sironi09/27/11
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Cross-Site Request Forgery explained

A Cross-site Request Forgery, aka CSRF or one-click attack, is a diffused security issue issue where unathorized commands are sent from the user's browser to a web site or a web application. CSRF is different from Cross-Site Scripting in the sense that it...

Andrzej Krzywda09/26/11
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Rails is not MVC

There is a terminology problem in the Rails community. Everyone promotes Rails as a MVC framework. I did that as well. However, the truth is that Rails represents the Model2 architecture. It's not MVC.

Alan Skorkin09/21/11
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When Developers Go To Great Length To Save Typing 4 Letters

Heroku is a great platform. Long before I joined and when I say long, I mean in startup terms (i.e. a few weeks before I joined :)) – the decision was made that CrowdHired would be hosted on Heroku. Shortly after I came on board, Heroku released their new...

David Bland09/21/11
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Lean Startups: Thinking in reverse, yet leaning forward

“A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes” – Helmut Jan This advice is not limited to engineers. It also applies to many of us who want to produce software that...

Patrick Debois09/20/11
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Continuous Integration for the World

In 2008 at Agile Toronto, I did a session on Agile Infrastructure. This is where I met Andrew Shafer (working at Reductive Labs). There wasn't that much attention for it back then, we were still figuring out the impact and ideas. Now 3 years later, I was...

Patrick Debois09/16/11
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Devopsdays Downunder 2011 - Keynote

At the first devopsdays in Ghent 2009 we were extremely lucky to have Lindsay Holmwood present. I had to skip the first devopsdays downunder. So I was honoured to be asked by Lindsay to do a keynote on devops in Melbourne.

Mitch Pronschinske09/15/11
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Free Book Chapter: Creating a User Account in Rails

Manning has provided a free chapter (Chapter 14) of Rails 3 in Action. This book was written by Ruby community leader Yehuda Katz and Ryan A. Bigg. This chapter shows you part of the process of deploying a Rails application to a new Ubuntu...