Mommy!? Why can’t I be on Facebook? If I had a dollar for every time I heard that coming out of my 9 year olds mouth… I know a million good reasons why she shouldn’t be on Facebook, only about a hundred or so of them am I willing to share with her in any [...] http://www.heavenofdreams.com/archives/3574

Apache has an option called "AllowOverride" which allows you to override some Apache settings via a .htaccess file you can place in a directory. I'll show you why that's a very bad idea.

A panel of successful entrepreneurs are continuing to answer your questions on setting up and running small companies. Their latest answers are below.

xcache, for some reason, doesn’t validate the credentials for fastcgi module. We found a little post on google in which some user mentioned the hack to get rid of the Xcache authentication. So we wanted to share that with you guys as well.

The Cloudcast discusses the issues and debunks the myths of virtual desktops. Particularly, they consider some of the security / risk-mitigations that surround virtual desktops, as well as the changing landscape of security in delivering an "end user computing" experience in businesses coping with non-Windows devices.

Continuing the long tradition of running on almost any machine known to man, NetBSD 5.1.2 was released today!

The folks on the ADO.NET team have finally released their Code First Migrations work as part of EF 4.3. But what exactly sets apart this release from the previous one: 4.2?

Enabling SAML2 SSO for web apps deployed on Tomcat with WSO2 Identity Server IdP

First part of an example that uses Jersey and GAE to make a RESTFul Web Service

Java EE6 focused on developer productivity and includes numerous enhancements that are true game-changers. See what's new. In this session Pete and Dan will walk you through the key improvements, including those to EJB, Servlets, easy archive creation, Bean Validation (based on Hibernate Validator), JPA 2.0 criteria queries (thank you Hibernate) and the standardization of dependency injection (JSR 299 CDI). Through the use of a publicly available sample application, Pete and Dan will show you exactly how you can use these new features and hope to have a major impact on your daily life as an enterprise developer. [ * ] slides - http://portal.sliderocket.com/jboss/ee6-programming-webinar-jun-2011

Learn how and when to use the contexts and dependency injection model in Java EE 6. Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 brought dependency injection (DI) with Convention over Configuration to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0. Java EE 6 introduces the flexible and powerful @Inject dependency injection model (JSR-330 and JSR-299) in addition to the already existing @EJB annotation. So when should you use what?

Everything you need to get started using Heroku

The new number two Web server in the world, open-source NGINX, is now offering commercial support.

Comparing 10 major points for Jelastic and Heroku. Author is a Jelastic employee.

With the explosion of Hadoop and big data usage, many people are currently looking for approaches to convert their existing implementations into MapReduce. Unfortunately, with the notable exception of "Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce" and "Mahout in Action" there are very few publications dedicated to the designing of MapReduce implementations. In his new article, "MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases" Ilya Katsov provides a systematic overview of problems that can be solved using a MapReduce framework.