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Leigh Shevchik10/29/12
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8 Links to Performance Tips from the Conference Circuit

In this week’s news, we go on the conference circuit to find great web performance tips from Velocity EU, WebPerfDays Europe, JavaOne and more.

Eric Genesky10/29/12
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DZone Interviews Cindy McCourt, Author of "Getting Started with Drupal 7" Refcard

Cindy McCourt, the author of multiple techinical papers on drupal, as well as Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building Websites was kind enough to answer a few questions about writing the Drupal Refcard.

Oliver Hookins10/28/12
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Duck Typing: The Duck Always Bites Twice

These days I’m noticing myself saying more and more frequently that Duck Typing is great, except when it’s not.

Ayende Rahien10/28/12
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A Modern Alternative to Abstract Factory Filtered Dependencies

I've mentioned before that I really don’t like the Abstract Factory pattern, and in particular, code like this.

Gareth Rushgrove10/28/12
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Make EC2 and Fabric Work in Beautiful Harmony

I’ve found myself doing more and more EC2 work of late and have finally gotten around to making my life easier when using Fabric with Amazon instances. Here's the result of a little bit of hacking.

Borislav Iordanov10/28/12
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A Busy Developer's Guide to RESTful Services in Java

The Internet doesn't lack expositions on REST architecture, RESTful services, and their implementation in Java. But, here is another one. Why? Because I couldn't find something concise enough.

Ravi Kalakota10/28/12
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Here's What Happens Every Sixty Seconds in the World of Data

Every sixty seconds, a tidal wave of unstructured data is produced, consumed, and archived. Mobile is accelerating this trend. This means that a new customer interaction model powered by big data is emerging.

Brian Gracely10/28/12
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The Cloudcast Ep. 61: Why New Applications are Moving to NoSQL

Aaron and Brian speak with Justin Sheehy (CTO at Basho Technologies), about the evolution of applications, new database demands and why NoSQL is changing how we stored and access data.

Andreas Kollegger10/28/12
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Zen Graph Visualizations: Cool Stuff You Can Do With It

Zen-Table is an ingenious mechanism consisting of a microcontroller, strong neodynium magnets and a plotter like mechanism to move the "drawing head" across sand on top of a coffee- or desktop-table. Of course the table is programmable.

Brian O' Neill10/28/12
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Solid NoSQL Benchmarks from YCSB with a Side of HBase Bologna

One of the great appeals of Cassandra is its linear scalability. Need more speed? Just add water, er... nodes to your ring.

Toni Petrina10/28/12
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Does Windows Store Accept and Reject Apps Inconsistently?

But if the tests really are that vigorous and Microsoft tests your application on all devices it can find (both ARM and x86, low-spec and high-spec), how come the following applications passed the tests?

Dmitry Sheiko10/28/12
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Performing Functional Testing with qUnit

If you use qUnit for front-end unit-testing, you may love the idea to use the same tool on functional testing. Thanks to a recent post I read, I came up with a solution.

Rob J Hyndman10/28/12
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Building R packages for Windows

Rob Hyndman gives you everything you need to build R packages for Windows including useful tools and step-by-step instructions with code samples for actually building the packages.

Chris Travers10/27/12
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Understanding Function Properties in Object-Relational Algebra

The general approach of this object-relational algebra involves applying algebra to manipulate operations on functions of sets of tuples.

Sean Hull10/27/12
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How to Find (or Be) the Best Cloud Operations Candidate

What does a cloud computing expert need to know? Whether you're preparing to interview for such a position or you're trying to find the right candidate, here's what you need to know.