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Mitch Pronschinske03/12/13
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Win An Awesome T-Shirt By Helping Make Our Comparison Guide Great!

These are some of the coolest developer t-shirts we've designed in the history of DZone (and the world!). Normally you have to unlock some major achievements as a DZone user to get one of these babies, but this week, everyone has a shot. Just help us out with our PaaS / IaaS guide.

Victor Savkin03/11/13
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I Wish Ruby Had Interfaces

Types have a bad reputation for making code harder to read, adding unnecessary ceremony, and in general complicating things. In this article I’d like to show that a type system done right can help make code more readable and toolable without constraining the expressiveness of the language.

Mitch Pronschinske03/11/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2013/3/11)

Learn about Clojure's unsafe reader, WTFM, and a program problem solving parable. Plus, GAE drops Python 2.5 finally.

Allen Coin03/08/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/8/13)

Today: Dissecting Amazon's smart dropdowns, reverse-engineering OKCupid's API, a cool trick with Google Spreadsheets, and The Matrix in 60 seconds!

Jurgen Appelo03/07/13
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Nonviolent Communication (Stop It!)

Does Nonviolent Communication really work for you? Great! Then you're one of the few people in the world whose neocortex is able to bypass the limbic system. Consider yourself priviliged. ;-)

Jurgen Appelo03/06/13
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The Big List of Agile Practices

This post is probably going to be hated and loved at the same time. Because, when people talk about agile practices, they can sometimes become very religious. Which means I may be putting my head in a noose with this one.

Allen Coin03/05/13
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DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (3/5/13)

Today: The Mars Rover gets a BSOD, Chicago moves to GitHub, The Pirate Bay moves to North Korea (allegedly), and 4 Reasons Why It's Hard to Find Good Developers.

Henrik Warne03/05/13
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Algorithm of the Week: A Look At Coursera's Design and Analysis of Algorithms: Part I

I took a course like this over 20 years ago, so I thought it would be good with a refresher course. There were several topics that were new to me, in particular some of the graph algorithms (case in point: Karger’s min-cut algorithm presented in the course had not been invented when I went to university).

Rob Golding03/05/13
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Announcing Celery-S3

Celery has good support for a variety of different message brokers – RabbitMQ, Redis, SQS, etc. – but support for result storage is somewhat more limited. Celery-S3 lets you store Celery results in an S3 bucket, which means you can run a fully-functioning Celery installation on AWS with nothing but a Python install.