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Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Exadel

Exadel is a software development tooling firm that produces multiple open source and commercial solutions for mobile development, financial services, and JSF. Short Description: ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Versant

Versant Corporation is a database management solution vendor with products that include the Versant Object Database, FastObjects, and the open source "db4o." Short Description: ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Vaadin

Vaadin is a software company and also a Java framework that allows developers to build modern web applications with a Swing-like, desktop development process. Short Description: ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Ops Needs their own TDD: Test -Driven Infrastructure

The recently published book "Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef" is not a proscriptive book as far as tooling, despite having "Chef" in the title. John Arundel a sysadmin and architect just gave an awesome, to-the-point review of the...

Mitch Pronschinske10/19/11
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NetBeans

NetBeans, a department of Oracle, produces an open source Java IDE called "NetBeans IDE" and a multi-language delelopment platform called "NetBeans Platform." Short Description: ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/19/11
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MuleSoft

MuleSoft is a provider of software and services for enterprise deployments of Apache Tomcat and Mule ESB, and open source SOA integration platform. Short Description: <strong>MuleSoft</strong> is...

Mitch Pronschinske10/19/11
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"Dive into HTML5" is Back Online!

After seeing a 401 gone message for many weeks when visiting Mark Pilgrim's acclaimed "Dive into HTML5" online book, I now see that everything is back up again! His other renowned "Dive into..

Mitch Pronschinske10/18/11
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Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation is a non-profit corporation that hosts open source projects surrounding the Eclipse IDE, the world's most popular Java IDE. Short Description: <strong>The Eclipse...

Mitch Pronschinske10/18/11
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Video: DevOps Roundtable Hosted By DevOps Cafe

At PuppetConf this year, there was a great DevOps roundtable discussion hosted by John Willis and Damon Edwards, the guys who run DevOps Cafe. A must watch...

Mitch Pronschinske10/17/11
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DevOps for Devs in 3 Steps

A presentation entitled "DevOps for Developers" was given at the WebTech 2011 conference and now the slides are up online for all to see. I'll summarize the show and let you know where the better slides are so you don't have to flip through the...

Mitch Pronschinske10/17/11
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Why You Shouldn't Have to Deploy Overnight

Are you still doing deployments at 3:00am? If you are, you should have taken a look at Brian Crescimanno's post: "Why are you still deploying overnight?"

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:

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...

Mitch Pronschinske10/05/11
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Choosing Canvas or SVG

With a lot of excitement around Canvas, there has been a tendency to ignore SVG, which, in many cases, is the better choice. URL: http://css.dzone.com/articles/how-choose-between-canvas-and ...

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...