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Mitch Pronschinske09/19/12
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New MissionKit Raises the Bar for Modeling Tools

The 2012 MissionKit was just released today and it has several new features that bolster the toolkit that already has just about everything you might need for easing the process of working with data in XML and relational data stores.

Mitch Pronschinske09/16/12
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DZone Interviews Jenkins Creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi

In conjunction with the release of our incredibly awesome Jenkins on PaaS Refcard, we decided to have another interview with a big hero in the Java community. Kohsuke Kawaguchi! Creator of Hudson/Jenkins.

Mitch Pronschinske08/30/12
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Poll: Are We Polyglot Programmers?

So how many in the developer ranks have already taken the initiative (or been forced) to learn multiple programming languages and use them to create non-trivial applications? That's what you're about to find out when you finish this poll.

Mitch Pronschinske08/29/12
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The "Pianodoro": Take Your Productivity to Power-Level 9000!

Practitioners of the Pomodoro Technique swear by its effectiveness in making working humans more productive. I'm here to tell you today, that we the DZone writers, curators, designers, developers, etc. have employed this technique on numerous occasions and we think we've stumbled upon something even better…

Mitch Pronschinske08/17/12
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19 Videos To Get You Up To Speed With VS 2012 and .NET 4.5 this Weekend!

If you haven't been watching the developer news out of Microsoft recently, you should probably know that the final versions of .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 are now available for download by MSDN subscribers. You should spend your weekend getting acquainted with the next big step in the MS development stack by watching these 19 videos!

Mitch Pronschinske07/24/12
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Integrating Oracle RIB to BizTalk Server

This blog entry will discuss how to integrate Oracle RIB to BizTalk Server using the JMS adapter, but first it might be worthwhile to understand the particular problems with integrating stand-alone JMS clients.

Mitch Pronschinske07/23/12
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Spin Up New VMs in Their Own Virtual Network - A New FOSS Tool

Terraform is a flexible tool made available under the Apache 2.0 license that makes it easy to define, instantiate and manage environments. Terraform integrates with existing cloud providers. Today, Amazon EC2 and VMWare vSphere are supported.

Mitch Pronschinske07/12/12
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Creating .NET-based Mappers and Reducers for Hadoop with JNBridgePro

The Apache Hadoop framework enables distributed processing of very large data sets. Hadoop is written in Java, and has limited methods to integrate with “mapreducers” written in other languages. This lab demonstrates how you can use JNBridgePro to program directly against the Java-based Hadoop API to create .NET-based mapreducers.

Mitch Pronschinske07/03/12
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The DevOps Cycle

A straightforward, whiteboard presentation of how the DevOps cycle works in the enterprise. Jody Hunt of BMC explains...

Mitch Pronschinske07/01/12
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Take the HTML5 Poll, Win a DZone Swag Pack!

Are you interested in finding out which HTML5 specs and other emerging web standards are being implemented in todays websites? Interested in seeing if developers are converting many Flash web components to HTML5? You'll get the answer to these and many other questions by answering 11 easy questions in our HTML5 Zone survey.

Mitch Pronschinske06/22/12
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Poll: Which Programming Language Needs to Die?

Pretty simple question. Which programming language do you think is bad for the developer community while it's still being used? Or which language do you think has stuck around in the industry for too long?

Mitch Pronschinske06/13/12
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Performance Junkies Unite!

We crave benchmarks, even though we know they all suck at giving us a full picture sometimes. And sometimes we refuse the more productive languages and frameworks because we cannot accept the 0.2 millisecond hit we'll take for using a technology that is potentially lower in performance.

Mitch Pronschinske06/06/12
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Big Search with Big Data Principles

Eric Pugh, a Principle at OpenSource Connections, will explain how you can practically apply some of the principles of Big Data to your search environment.

Mitch Pronschinske06/05/12
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Building Query Auto-Completion Systems with Lucene 4.0

Watch as Sudarshan Gaikaiwari of Yelp discusses several types of suggest systems for query-autocompletion with the upcoming version of Lucene.

Mitch Pronschinske06/02/12
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The Search Is Over: Integrating Solr and Hadoop in the Same Cluster to Simplify Big Data Analytics

Companies like DataStax and MapR have found a significant demand for having technologies like Hadoop and Solr easily deployable in one cluster. Jack Norris of MapR talks about this strategy in this video.