Performance means something new in a rationalized cloud architecture
While "Performance Management" *sounds* straightforward, its true meaning needs to account for subtle shifts in technology that... more »
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Dell ditches public cloud service for partner scheme
Own-brand OpenStack hosting to be replaced by partnership with smaller companies - all managed by Enstratius.
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Java Spotlight Episode 133: Sivakumar Thyagarajan on JSR 332: Java EE 7 Connectors @jcp
Interview with Sivakumar Thyagarajan on JSR 332: Java EE Connectors in Java EE 7.
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Thymeleaf now has its own view-layer testing library
The thymeleaf project has just released a specialized testing library. This library will allow developers to test not only the view layer... more »
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Cloudera Gets More Cloudy: Partners and Certifies CDH4 on vSphere
Today, we are excited to welcome Cloudera officially to the VMware family. VMware and Cloudera have entered into a partnership agreement... more »
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Agile methodology
Waterfall model follows application development in phases with checkpoint and deliverable documents in each checkpoint. It advocates... more »
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How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or otherwise) on Windows Azure (command line)
A buddy of mine was thinking to move some of his Linux-based website to Azure. If you're running a Web Site that this node.js, ASP,... more »
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Pair Programming Benefits: Part 2 - The Rest
When last we spoke, I discussed some of the pleasant discoveries that I had in my initial pair programming outings. In this post,... more »
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What Big Data Can Learn from Barbie
Many well-publicized big-data stories are like Barbie dolls. They’re great sources of inspiration, but you can’t realistically model your... more »
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C++ exceptions under the hood
Our latest personality function knows whether it can handle an exception or not (assuming there is only one catch statement per try block... more »
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FoundationDB Fault Tolerance Demo Video (& blog post)
This is a blog post by NoSQL database company FoundationDB which shows a live demo cluster running the database software and a test... more »
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Is Fragmentation Of Standards Opening Us Up For Further Exploits?
Can the lack of standardization be part of the cause of so many vulnerabilities we see in tech? When two rules don't exactly fit... more »
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Through the Golden Years of Microsoft
A picture speaks a thousand words, a fact I truly agree. While browsing through the internet, I came across a very interesting... more »
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Daniel Cook on 8 Laws of Productivity
Daniel Cook has a great PDF on the 8 Laws of Productivity. The subtitle is “8 Productivity Experiments You Don’t Need to Repeat.”... more »
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Pre-beta Windows 8.1 WinRT Developer APIs
Windows 8.1 images contain WinMD files describing their embedded Windows 8.1 developers APIs. It’s possible to get to Win8.1’s WinMD... more »
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Coming to Angular from something else.
There’s a recent blog entry on the ArtLogic.com site about learning Angular. One aspect of it resonates with me: “Quit jQuery for a... more »
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Expect for DevOps
Sysads and programmers have widely used Expect for twenty years. Most of them misunderstand its essence and role, though: like WD-40 or... more »
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Context Matters: Premature Optimization or Habits From Long Ago?
I’m at the Much Ado About Agile conference this week, in beautiful Vancouver. During lunch one day, one of the conference participants... more »
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AngularJS Abstractions: Filters
Filters in AngularJS can form a pipeline to format and adapt model data inside a view. The built-in filters for AngularJS are date... more »
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Create a Weather App with Forecast – API Integration
In the first article of this series, we laid the foundation of the project by setting up the project and creating the application’s... more »
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A fast lock-free queue for C++
Sharing data between threads in annoying. Really annoying. If you do it wrong, the data is likely to become corrupted. Even more... more »
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Open Source Products used in Pinterest
Pinterest is a tool for collecting and organizing things you love. It is a social networking site where users could pin images and write... more »
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The Linux Firewall
There are several firewall applications for Linux, but what you may not realize is that, at the heart of all these programs is a single... more »
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How Strategy Pattern help in reducing code duplication, avoid type casting and make design Better
Lets take a look on How Strategy Pattern help in reducing code duplication, avoid type casting and make design Better.
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How to use Enterprise Java Beans 3.x based application with Websphere 8.5 application server
In this article, we will learn about the process of creating EJB 3.x based application and deploying on Websphere 8.5 application server.