Stephen Forte11/29/12
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Building a Data Warehouse, Part 3: Location of Your Data Warehouse

In Part I we looked at the advantages of building a data warehouse independent of cubes/a BI system and in Part II we looked at how to architect a data warehouse’s table schema. Today we are going to look at where to put your data warehouse tables.

Eric Berg11/29/12
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A New Bill of Rights for the Enterprise Cloud Buyer

Constellation’s independent “bill of rights” aims to serve as a base point during the vendor selection and contract negotiation process for SaaS apps — offering a best practices reference, checklist and key points for discussion.

Krishna Prasad11/29/12
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This Sample iPad App Works with a JSON-Based Machine Learning System

GoSmarter is a JSon based Machine Learning System that, if given a Natural Language (NLP) Query, will return a list of recommended products. This Machine Learning also uses social networking capabilities to recommend products based on your friends.

Erik Ejlskov Jensen11/29/12
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SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.1.1 Released, Now Supports WP8 and VS2012

SQL Server Compact Toolbox has been updated. Let's take a look at some of the new features.

Jeremy Foster11/29/12
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A Windows 8 App Design Worksheet

This worksheet might help you when you're brainstorming the design of your Windows 8 app. It encourages the 3-tier navigation structure that’s common with these apps and helps you keep track of spacing conventions.

Yazan Jaber11/28/12
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Don't be a Scholar, Be an Engineer

Many software developers seem obsessed with learning new technologies while they should be focusing on creating real value.

Stacey Schneider11/28/12
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Map-Reduce Style: Data Aware Distributed Querying in vFabric GemFire

First, we should understand how data is mapped out in order to understand how we can store and access a lot of it quickly and in dynamic ways.

Stephen Forte11/28/12
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Building a Data Warehouse, Part 2: Building a New Schema

When architecting a data warehouse, you have two basic options: build a flat “reporting” table for each operation you are performing, or build with BI/cubes in mind and implement a “star” or “snowflake” schema.

Krishna Prasad11/28/12
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Managing Raw SOAP message within Spring Integration – Part 2

In this blog I will demonstrate how you can create a Proxy and how int-ws-outbound-gateway can call the Proxy service when calling Source Webservice.

Matt Lacey11/28/12
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Background Agent Expiry in Windows Phone 8

In Windows Phone 7[.x] background agents would expire (stop working/running) if an app wasn't launched for 14 days. Today I noticed in MSDN that things are slightly different in Windows Phone 8.

Giorgio Sironi11/28/12
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Erlang: records

A little abstraction over tuples goes a long way.

Aurelien Broszn...11/28/12
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Confused About Map/Reduce?

I was working on some Hadoop stuff recently, and as a total beginner, I found that the Map/Reduce concept was not easy to understand, despite the huge number of tutorials.

Max De Marzi11/28/12
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Pathfinding with Neo4j Unmanaged Extensions

In "Extending Neo4j" I showed you how to create an unmanaged extension to warm up the node and relationship caches. Let’s try doing something more interesting like exposing the A* (A Star) search algorithm through the REST API.

Kristina Chodorow11/28/12
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MongoDB Changing Default: Now, Write Errors are Reported

I’m really happy to share that, in a coordinated effort, all official MongoDB drivers are changing their defaults to return a response from writes today.

Allen Coin11/28/12
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31 Days of Windows 8 for HTML5 | Day #20: Printing

Today, it’s all about creating paper. Yes folks, the joys of printing. I know for some this might feel very 1999 but as it turns out, people are still using paper.