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Mitch Pronschinske06/17/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (June 18)

German parliment may be preparing to end future software patenting, and Subversion 1.8 is live! Plus, learn how to speed up your site with Redis and watch the funniest JavaZone parody trailer yet!

Mitch Pronschinske06/10/13
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AJUG's Introduction to Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka (kafka.apache.org) is a "distributed publish-subscribe messaging system" with some very interesting features for handling massive volumes of data without the traditional management and scale issues of JMS implementations. Written in Scala, it runs on the JVM and is easily integrated into Java apps.

Mitch Pronschinske06/06/13
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DDD and SOA Pitfalls

Developers building a Service Oriented Architecture commonly run into pitfalls such as using too many web services or using the wrong ESB. These are just some of the tips from this short video.

Mitch Pronschinske06/06/13
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Most of DZone Has Used Cloud Services in Development or Testing

Something big is coming Monday. Something HUGE and AMAZING actually. Get a preview of the audience survey results section of our PaaS and IaaS guide, and claim your copy!

Mitch Pronschinske06/05/13
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UML: Once More with Meaning

This talk will review the state of this work and the implications for software and system engineering practice of bringing real meaning to UML.

Mitch Pronschinske06/04/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (June 5)

See why you should write ugly code and how you can build your own Google TV with Raspberry Pi. Plus the new plan to curb frivolous software patent lawsuits.

Mitch Pronschinske05/30/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 30)

Mozilla developer Christian Heilmann says there's a subtle difference between just a mobile web site and a full "app".

Mitch Pronschinske05/22/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 23)

It's time to make Java debugging suck less, and it's also time to start pronouncing "GIF" "jif". Plus, some crucial employability tips and the real difference between "web" and "enterprise" developers.

Mitch Pronschinske05/18/13
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ZeroMQ in Grizzly

From the OpenStack summit comes a lightning talk presentation on an implementation within the OpenStack IaaS software using the ZeroMQ message broker and Grizzly, the NIO Event simplifying framework.

Mitch Pronschinske05/17/13
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A Look at How ZeroMQ Became a Leading Message-Passing Library

Pieter Hintjens, a maintainer of ZeroMQ: The Definitive Guide, discusses the patterns, the code, and the community behind this message-passing library.

Mitch Pronschinske05/17/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 17)

New JavaScript and CSS tools are on their way, along with a managed NoSQL DB from Google. Plus Jekyll 1.0 and a super-jumping robot.

Mitch Pronschinske05/14/13
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Things Made Easy: One Click CMS Integration with Solr & Drupal

If you have a new web project or and existing Drupal site, the combination of Drupal and Apache Solr is both powerful and easy to set up thanks to the existing integration code. The module allows for substantial customization with the administrative UI.

Mitch Pronschinske05/13/13
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A Completely Thread-Safe ZeroMQ Socket Interface for Scala

scala-zeromq facilitates communication using the ZeroMQ messaging library. ZeroMQ is a message-oriented socket communication library that support several high-level messaging patterns, including request-reply, publish-subscribe and push-pull. This is good since the current Akka extension for ZMQ has issues.

Mitch Pronschinske05/13/13
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My Mom Told me That Git Doesn't Scale

Did you have a good Mother's Day? This GitHub developer's mom is certainly interesting... Since day one, we've faced an unique engineering problem: making terabytes of Git data always available, either directly or through our website.

Mitch Pronschinske05/13/13
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OpenStack Integration Case Study on a Hybrid Cloud

How do you design and deploy a hybrid cloud application service using Openstack, VMware Vcenter and HP Public Cloud Service? How do you automatically scale your multi-tier application to respond to peak demand?