The Free-to-Play Gaming Evolution | allenc
Games have come a long way since when they cost $80 and came in cardboard boxes with terrible cover art. The mechanism of funding... more »
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What Types of Virtualization Are Most Vulnerable to Network Blind Spots
Read about the different kinds of virtualization and how each one can affect network analysis.
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Performance matters when writing, too: more SQL tips
Programmers generally recognize that SQL can be optimized: experts often rewrite queries to take only a fraction of the time of their... more »
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It’s Not Just Women We Need; It’s a Variety of People
I have tried to contribute to the agile community, chairing the Agile 2009 conference, speaking at user groups, writing for a number of... more »
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10 Powerful Responsive Lightboxes
Lightbox has always been one of the great method to display images without having to refresh a page. Nowadays, with the booming of... more »
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The Kirk and Spock Approaches to Big Data
In the Star Trek Book of Management, there are two approaches to big data decision making: The Kirk way and the Spock way. Which type are you?
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Cloudy with a Chance of Integration: The Great iPaaS Gold Rush is On
The iPaaS rush is on and every cloud has a golden lining, but without clearly including a Cloud-based ESB in that strategy you might just... more »
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Personal Transformation is the Heart of Organizational Transformation
In the classic personal growth book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey states that private victory precedes public... 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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Agile methodology
Waterfall model follows application development in phases with checkpoint and deliverable documents in each checkpoint. It advocates... more »
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10 great free monospaced fonts for programming
A good choice of font for your coding activites can make a huge difference and improve your productivity, so take a look at the fonts in... more »
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Freedom, responsibility, and testing: Lessons for DevOps
Testing has a body of theory that helps its manageability and scalability. Many of the principles deserve to be borrowed into DevOps
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5 Trends That Will Drive The Future of Technology
Trends get a bad rap, mostly because they are often equated with fashions. Talk about trends and people immediately start imagining... more »
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ACID v BASE
A few thoughts on ACID, transactions, CAP, and BASE. The impact of NoSQL and the requirements of ACID and transactions, the emergence of... more »
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What Makes a Great Conference?
I’ve been asking around on email and on the social networks what makes a conference memorable, special, or amazing. This topic has my... more »
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11 Things to Remember About People in Middle Management Roles
It’s easy to be critical of managers. A few things to remember. Point 0 - Most people in management roles want to do a good job, but may... more »
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"Say Goodbye to Anonymity"
As CBS showed, Intel is already selling software to recognize the rough demographic of an individual in order to deliver more a targeted... more »
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Teaching programming, we have a huge problem
I’ve been a professional programmer now for over a decade, and during this time I’ve met a LOT of excellent programmers. Most of them are... more »
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Does Service Virtualization’s “Shift Left” Burden Developers?
Service virtualization undeniably benefits the development process, but it can be both a blessing & a curse for developers. Learn how... more »
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The Toxic Defense of the Status Quo
If you take anything away from this cautionary tale it is to constantly be on the look out for those that adhere to the status quo. It... more »
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mysql-async and postgresql-async 0.2.2 for Scala released
A newer version of the postgresql-async project has been released and now it also includes MySQL support with the mysql-async project.... more »
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Yahoo Goes Big and Buys Tumblr
Yahoo’s board has approved a billion-dollar-plus layout to buy Tumblr.
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The Stand Up Desk Rises to the Occasion
Joel Cochran experiments with a few standing desk strategies and settles on a desk that moves up and down. You should check out the pics.... more »
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These Moments are Precious
The moments when excitement builds throughout the whole team at the delight of discovery and creativity are precious. These moments feel... more »
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