MapReduce Questions and Answers Part 1
With all the hype and buzz surrounding NoSQL, I decided to have a look at it. I quickly found that there is not one NoSQL I could learn.
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7 Application Deployment Best Practices
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I’ve given it some thought and I think there are still a handful of best practices for application deployments which can pretty much... more »
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GUI for Cassandra: Make Things a Little Easier
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Here's how to get started using Cassandra CLI, as well as how to set up a nice UI to make using Cassandra easier for administrators.
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Hadoop MapReducers in .NET - Making C# and VB First Class Citizens in Hadoop
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Hadoop was written in Java. So it makes sense that Java will always be Hadoop's best friend. Hadoop streaming is great tool that allows... more »
ORM Haters Just Don't Get It
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I’ve seen tons of articles and comments (especially comments) that tell us how bad, crappy and wrong is the concept of ORM... more »
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I was wrong: W8 & WP8 to have a shared core
Back in December I gave some fairly well reasonsed arguments about why I thought that the next version of Windows Phone 8 would not be... more »
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Typology: Award-Winning Neo4j Smartphone Text Predictor
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Typology is a project supervised by Rene Pickhardt; it recently won a couple awards at the German federal competition of young scientists.
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Looking at Windows 8 Metro App Internals? The Path Has Changed In The Consumer Preview.
Justin Angel put together a blog post on reverse engineering Windows 8 applications and he described the locations of the APPX packages... more »
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Why Quit? Because They Have Bigger Monitors
Good engineers are attracted to places with a strong engineering culture. But how can you see what the culture is really like from the... more »
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Staffing the Cloud with Skilled Employees
As more and more IT services get shifted to the cloud, the demand for talent becomes an increasingly important issue.
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JavaFX 2 GameTutorial Part 3
This is part 3 of a six part series related to a JavaFX 2.x Game Tutorial. In this tutorial I will be discussing about input. Part 3 demo... more »
.NET Framework 4.5 Gets Built-In ZIP Support
One of the missing feature of .NET framework was a support for Zip file manipulation such as reading the zip archive, adding files,... more »
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Prototypal Inheritance & Strategies for Debugging Tough Problems
Prototypal inheritance gives you the ability to change the behavior of objects at runtime, and it can be incredibly powerful in building... more »
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HTML5: Remotely vibrate a phone with morse code using web sockets and the vibrate API
A couple of days ago I ran into the W3C Vibration API, which reached "Candidate Recommendation" status last week (8th of May). This API... more »
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Azure Real World
This is a guest-post written by Ken Muse, Vice President of Technology at ecoInsight. He has written an amazingly in-depth post about... more »
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2-legged OAuth with OAuth 1.0 and 2.0
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OAuth 1.0 emerged from the large social providers like Facebook, Yahoo!, AOL, and Google. Each had developed its own alternative to the... more »
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Search is Not Enough: Using Solr for Analytics
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We've got our first video recording out of Lucene Revolution 2012. This year was even bigger than the previous two, with even more focus... more »
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Understanding How OSGI Bundles Get Resolved: Part I
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I’d like to review how OSGI bundles get resolved and use Apache Karaf to demonstrate. Karaf is a full-featured OSGI container based on... more »
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CSS3 PIE - CSS3 Decorations For IE 6-9
PIE stands for Progressive Internet Explorer. It is an IE attached behavior which, when applied to an element, allows IE to recognize and... more »
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Business Analytics with CouchDB and NoFlo
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The Software Development Metrics That Matter
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How can we get better, or know that we need to get better, or know if we are getting better, if we can’t or don’t measure something? How... more »
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Easily parallelize jobs using web workers and a threadpool with HTML5
I've been experimenting with web workers and the various browser implementations. Most of the articles I've seen show an example where a... more »
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Adventures in Unhandled Exception Handling for XNA/Silverlight
One thing that can tick off your users / players is that inevitable time through a series of random events a crash occurs, it’s unhandled... more »
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What are the Options for Managing Message State in Windows Azure?
This post describes the various modes to store session values in ASP.NET: In-Proc, State Server, SQL Server, and Custom.
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py_static_check: Statically check your Python code for errors
I have released py_static_check, an useful tool that can statically check your Python code for common errors. Statically implies that the... more »
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