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Christopher Taylor05/17/13
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Big Data Ends the Era of Hunches

What’s truly changed is the amount of information that we now have on every imaginable demographic. Today’s systems track and store every purchase by every consumer in a way that turns us from extrapolation to intimate knowledge instead.

Trisha Gee05/17/13
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How are You Using MongoDB with Java?

I'm not going to bother with survey monkey or whatever, I want to share the answers so please, answers in the comments:

Allen Coin05/17/13
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Styles & Themes in Android

In this video, Android Evangelist Blake Meike demonstrates and explains some approaches to using styles and themes in Android applications.

Raymond Camden05/17/13
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Hear me wax poetic on Nerd Radio

Ray Camden, Adobe Creative Cloud Evangelist, talks with us about his sessions at MAX covering topics like PhoneGap Build and web development tools.

Yusuf Aytaş05/17/13
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Achieving Abstraction In JavaScript

While abstraction is well understood and well applied in languages like Java, C++, this approach is not discussed much for JavaScript. In this post, we will try to give some insight for abstraction of JavaScript.

Peter Zaitsev05/17/13
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Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 1

Over the past few weeks I have been looking at a preview release of Virident’s vCache software, which is a kernel module and set of utilities designed to provide functionality similar to that of FlashCache.

Leigh Shevchik05/17/13
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Simple JavaScript Testing with QUnit

I haven’t done a lot of JavaScript testing. Like a number of developers, I’m guilty of leaving JavaScript as an afterthought, whereas my PHP, Bash and Python code are first-class citizens.

Peter Zaitsev05/17/13
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Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2

This is the second part in a two-part series comparing Virident’s vCache to FlashCache. The first part was focused on usability and feature comparison; in this post, we’ll look at some sysbench test results.

John Blanco05/17/13
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Google is Winning the Developers; How Apple Can Win Them Back in an Instant

Google is winning the developers. The tools are outpacing Apple’s XCode which still suffers from excruciatingly long wait times to get the most obvious, and obnoxious, bugs fixed up. Storyboards are a duplication of XIB’s without replacing them. Autolayout is an unmitigated disaster.

Steven Lott05/17/13
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Legacy Code Preservation: Why Preserve the DSL?

A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) can provide some intellectual leverage. We can always write long and convoluted programs in a general-purpose programming language (like Python, Java or C). Sometimes it can make more sense to invent a new domain-specific language and implement the solution in that language.