Kevin Remde06/17/13
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New Windows Azure Trial and Subscription Rights

At the keynote on Monday of TechEd NA (June 3), we made some pretty big announcements around how Windows Azure Trials and various subscription benefits would be changing.

Ravi Kalakota06/17/13
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NSA PRISM – The Mother of all Big Data Projects

As a data engineer and scientist, I have been following the NSA PRISM raw intelligence mining program with great interest. The engineering complexity, breadth and scale is simply amazing compared to say credit card analytics (Fair Issac) or marketing analytics firms like Acxiom.

Arthur Charpentier06/17/13
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Visualizing Densities of Spatial Processes

We recently uploaded a revised version of our work, with Ewen Gallic on Visualizing spatial processes using Ripley’s correction: an application to bodily-injury car accident location.

Martin Fowler06/17/13
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ImmutableServer

Automated configuration tools (such as CFEngine, Puppet, or Chef) allow you to specify how servers should be configured, and bring new and existing machines into compliance. This helps to avoid the problem of fragile SnowflakeServers.

Steven Lott06/16/13
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Unit Testing: HamCalc's Quirks

Careful study of the HamCalc shows a number of quirks. Some are funny, some are just examples of the need for unit test frameworks.

David Winterbottom06/16/13
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A Deferred Logging File Handler for Django

At Tangent we handle environment-specific configuration of Django projects using the method outlined by David Cramer. This involves distinguishing between core settings (which we keep in core/default.py) and environment specific settings (eg core/stage.py, core/test.py).

Robert Diana06/16/13
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Geek Reading June 14, 2013

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques.

Greg Duncan06/16/13
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Preparing to Upgrade your SQL Server.

Dev:"But it's new and shinny! Let's upgrade!" DBA:"Over my..." Speaking of upgrading SQL Server servers, this looks like some great into for those looking to upgrade now or in the near future.

Oliver Hookins06/16/13
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On Pair Programming

Pair programming. It's not that I don’t “get it,” “understand it,” or “enjoy it” – I hope that I have attained all three of these – but due to my situation with software development it can be a bit of a struggle. What is this situation? Well, let me briefly explain.

Eric Genesky06/16/13
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Red Hat Summit: IaaS Overview and Roadmap

In this 45-minute presentation, Andy Cathrow and Ayal Baron of Redhat present Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and OpenStack, including high-level features of the Kernal-based VM hypervisor.

Seth Proctor06/16/13
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Python Management Interfaces

If you follow-along on the tech blog you’ve seen the news that we opened our Python driver this week. We’re pretty excited.

Eric Genesky06/16/13
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Mule ESB / Amazon SNS Integration

Here's an 8-minute demonstration of how Amazon SNS connects with Mule's Enterprise Service Bus.

Eric Genesky06/16/13
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Using Graph Databases to Analyze Relationships, Risks and Business Opportunities

This presentation will explain the advantages of graph databases, and how graphs can be used for a number of important functions, including risk management, relationship analysis and the identification of new business opportunities.

Martin Fowler06/16/13
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ConfigurationSynchronization

Automated configuration tools (such as CFEngine, Puppet, or Chef) allow you to avoid SnowflakeServers by providing recipes to describe the configuration of elements of a server.