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Gareth Rushgrove10/26/11
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Vagrant Plugin For Interacting With Vagrantbox.es

After Patrick released Sahara, a nifty extension for the Vagrant command line tool, I’ve been meaning to put together a similar extension for interacting with the growing list of base boxes on vagrantbox.es.

Michael Mccandless10/26/11
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Accuracy and performance of Google's Compact Language Detector

To get a sense of the accuracy and performance of Google's Compact Language Detector, I ran some tests against two other packages:

Craig Dickson10/26/11
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Degraded Amazon EC2 Instance

I received an email from Amazon today that I have never seen before. Here it is in its entirety: Hello, We have noticed that one or more of your instances is running on a host degraded due to hardware failure. i-XXXXXXXX The risk of your instances failing...

Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
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HP Gives DevOps Tips

There are a couple of useful nuggets of advice for implementing DevOps philosophies in a new post on HP's blog. While many of the points have been mentioned before, it's important to note a few practical tips they gave for operations and developers. For...

Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
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Chef Adds More Cookbooks for Windows

Today Opscode announced new Chef cookbooks for integration with server instances running Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server and PowerShell.

Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
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Video: "Super Fresh Code" - The Next Step in Continuous Delivery

Israel Gat of Cutter Consortium speaks with DZone on his two sessions at Agile 2011, one of which is about his new methodology for taking DevOps and Continuous...

David Fishman10/25/11
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Lucene Eurocon 2011: Presentation slides are now available

With a near doubling over the prior year, Apache Lucene Eurocon Barcelona 2011 came to a successful conclusion this past week, featuring over 40 presentations reflecting the breadth, depth, and ambition of open source Apache Lucene / Solr...

Jim Bird10/25/11
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Rolling Forward and other Deployment Myths

There is more and more writing on Devops lately, which is good and bad. There still remains a small core of thoughtful people that are worth listening to and learning from. There’s more and more marketing from vendors and consultants jumping on the...

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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Finding Out the Salary Averages for Application Release Professionals

I found an interesting survey by Nolio that is aimed at "Application Release Professionals". The survey is ending in one week and Nolio claims that by participating, these types of professionals will find out whether or not they're being...

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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New Puppet Release Supports Running Agents in Windows

Good news for Puppet users! The recent 2.7.6 update now gives you support for running puppet agents in Windows for some important resource types. Specifically these ones:fileusergroupscheduled_task (new type; not cron)package (MSI)serviceexechost

Ayende Rahien10/24/11
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Steamlining RavenDB, Part II - Why RavenDB Lazy Requests are in the Advanced section?

I really like notion of reducing the number of remote calls, so why did I stick the Lazy Requests feature of RavenDB in the session.Advanced section of the API and not put it in the center, directly off the session?

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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How-To install Tomcat 7 and Solr on Centos 5.5

In this how-to we are presenting the steps you have to follow in order to install Tomcat 7 and Solr on a Centos 5.5 machine. This tutorial was originally posted on TechSpry.com and the author is Gerasimos Athanasopoulos.

Davy Suvee10/24/11
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RDF data in Neo4J - the Tinkerpop story

My previous blog post discussed the use of Neo4J as a RDF triple store. Michael Hunger however informed me that the neo-rdf-sail component is no longer under active development and advised me to have a look at Tinkerpop’s Sail implementation.

Sasha Goldshtein10/23/11
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Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Introduction

The Roslyn project is the Microsoft implementation of C# and VB compilers-as-a-service. Roslyn provides a transparent view into the inner workings of the compiler, including syntax tree inspection and modification.

Martin Hinshelwood10/23/11
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Process Template Upgrade #3 – Destroy all Work Items and Import new ones

A little while ago I was looking into the best options for upgrading a process template but still keep your data intact, but there is still a little bit of ambiguity on how that is achieved. Lets look at the #3 option from that set in a little more detail.