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Alternative Jobs For Bored Web/App Developers

I’ve recently seen a spate of engineers declaring boredom and/or dissatisfaction with their current roles and responsibilities, which leads them to openly...

1 replies - 4405 views - 06/19/13 by Dave Fecak in Articles

Automating Nginx Reverse Proxy Configuration

It’s really nice if you can decouple your external API from the details of application segregation and deployment. In a previous post I explained some...

0 replies - 1159 views - 06/19/13 by Mike Hadlow in Articles

One Cap to rule 'em all ... (Capistrano)

 Wondering which cap it could be? ....Well its Capistrano :D I am a fan of Capistrano from way back and we use it for almost all kind of deployments -...

0 replies - 2033 views - 06/19/13 by Swathi Venkatachala in Articles

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0 replies - 3488 views - 06/19/13 by Tim Spann in Articles

Obtaining the Complete XML Message as xs:string with XSLT

At a recent project I needed to implement functionality which would store an incoming message in a relational database. Since we were using the WSO2 platform I...

0 replies - 1575 views - 06/18/13 by Pascal Alma in Articles

Creating a Great Mashup: Part 2

This post details features used by Earthquake Explorer, a Windows 8 app that displays earthquake information on Bing maps.  Earthquake Explorer was based...

0 replies - 493 views - 06/18/13 by Brian Hitney in Articles

10+ Deploys Per Day: DevOps at Flickr

This is a classic DevOps presentation from a former Velocity conference that I thought people could take another look at or see this for the first time. ...

0 replies - 1672 views - 06/18/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

neo4j/cypher: Finding single hop paths

The neo4j docs have a few examples explaining how to to write cypher queries dealing with path ranges but an interesting variation that I came across...

0 replies - 552 views - 06/18/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

Unit Testing Tip: Create Descriptive Tests

Your unit tests should be as descriptive as possible. The feedback they give you should be so clear you don’t even need to fire up the debugger and step one...

0 replies - 624 views - 06/18/13 by Juri Strumpflohner in Articles

Why You Need More Than Backend As a Service (BaaS) To Build a Mobile App

If you have been following the industry, there are over 30 Backend as a Service (BaaS) providers out there. BaaS makes it very easy and fast to create a...

0 replies - 531 views - 06/18/13 by Max Katz in Articles

Getting Started With Google’s Dart Language

I was a little skeptical of the Dart language when Google first announced it. When I looked at the syntax of the language I thought that it didn’t really...

0 replies - 635 views - 06/18/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Redis: Very Useful As a Distributed Lock

In a Service Oriented Architecture you sometimes need a distributed lock; an application lock across many servers to serialize access to some constrained...

0 replies - 751 views - 06/18/13 by Mike Hadlow in Articles

Presto – Facebook's Exabyte-Scale Query Engine

Presto is Facebook´s answer to Cloudera´s Impala, Hortonworks´ Stinger and Google´s Dremel. Presto is an ANSI-SQL compatible real-time data...

0 replies - 1018 views - 06/18/13 by Maarten Ectors in Articles

Useful Commands to Deal with SVN

The commands I came across with, while working with svn in Linux. Find and remove all the .svn folders inside a folder - This is useful when we have...

0 replies - 550 views - 06/18/13 by Pushpalanka Jay... in Articles

There’s still a big misunderstanding of Big Data

Spending time in London and Paris this week for TIBCO’s Transform Conference was a great reminder that there’s still an enormous swath of our world that...

0 replies - 3181 views - 06/18/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles