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Peter Zaitsev05/24/13
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Experiences with the McAfee MySQL Audit Plugin

I recently had to do some customer work involving the McAfee MySQL Audit Plugin and would like to share my experience in this post.

Gerard Davison05/24/13
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Persistent breakpoints every java developer should have

When a developer is working in Java there are a few failure cases you always want to know about even if you were trying to debug something else. Here is a list of the persistent breakpoints that should be enabled in every IDE. (IMHO of course)

Greg Duncan05/24/13
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SQL Server Database Project SqlBuildTask failing after installing SSMS 2012 SP1? Here's how to fix it (Update your SSDT)

I just ran into this and Michael's post saved me hours of "what the heck" and hair pulling, so I wanted to highlight it and give him a huge shout-out. Also I wanted to cache it here because I know I'm going to need this again...

Tim Spann05/23/13
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Vert.x + Yoke (Polyglot Answer to Node.js + Express) + WebSockets on many clouds

Here's a curated list of the latest interesting links for Vert.x, Yoke (the polyglot answer to Node.js), and WebSockets.

Peter Zaitsev05/23/13
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MySQL and the SSB – Part 2 – MyISAM vs InnoDB low concurrency

In my previous blog post I compared MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.6.10, both with default settings using only the InnoDB storage engine. In my testing I discovered that innodb_old_blocks_time had an effect on performance of the benchmark.

Manik Surtani05/23/13
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Storing arrays in Infinispan 5.3 without wrapper objects!

As we head towards the latter part of Infinispan 5.3 series, we're doing a series of blog posts where we provide more detailed information of some of the key features in this release.

Dan Dyer05/23/13
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Google Skynet

"Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it." - Eric Schmidt. This was two and a half years ago. Today Google is so far over the creepy line it can’t even see the line any more.

Cristian Chiovari05/22/13
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Understanding the concept behind ThreadLocal

I was aware of thread local but never had the occasion to really use it until recently. So I started digging a little bit on the subject because I needed an easy way of propagating some user information via the different layers of my web application.

Peter Zaitsev05/22/13
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Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations – Part 1

Global Transactions Identifiers are one of the new features regarding replication in MySQL 5.6. They open up a lot of opportunities to make the life of DBAs much easier when having to maintain servers under a specific replication topology.

Erik Ejlskov Jensen05/22/13
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SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #15 : flush data to disk immediately

Under normal operation, SQL Server Compact keeps all pending disk writes in memory, and flushes them to disk at least every 10 seconds. But you may want to flush to disk immediately under certain circumstances, and this weeks code snippet demonstrates how to do just that.

Leigh Shevchik05/22/13
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DrupalCon 2013: Introducing Drupal Hooks and Views Metrics

The Drupal ecosystem is bursting at the seams with modules. The ease of extending Drupal means it can be non-intuitive for developers to write well-performing modules.

Peter Zaitsev05/21/13
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Webinar: SQL Query Patterns, Optimized

Using MySQL 5.6 Performance Schema to Troubleshoot Typical Workload BottlenecksNext Friday, May 31 at 10 a.m. Pacific, I’ll present Percona’s next webinar, “SQL Query Patterns, Optimized.”

Roger Hughes05/21/13
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Spring and the java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: NULL Exception

A few days ago I was going through a project's Maven dependencies. After recompiling and running the unit tests I ran some end to end tests only to find that the whole thing fell apart... Big time.

Sasha Goldshtein05/21/13
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Traversing the GC Heap with ClrMd

ClrMd is a newly released diagnostic library that wraps the CLR’s undocumented data access interfaces (a.k.a. “DAC”) in a friendly managed API.

Eric D. Schabell05/21/13
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Red Hat JBoss Middleware is faster than an 855 foot Sky Jump

I would like to introduce you to our new Red Hat JBoss Rock Star. His name is Radical Rich and he will stop short of nothing to bring the message home to you how awesome and fast the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) is.

Sasha Goldshtein05/20/13
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Obtaining Reliable Thread Call Stacks of 64-bit Processes

Let's take a look at an example where we're interested in obtaining parameter values from the stack. In this case, we have a UI thread that called the WaitForMultipleObjects API, and we're interested in the first two parameters passed to WaitForMultipleObjects: the number of synchronization objects for which the thread is waiting, and the array of handles to these objects.

Allen Coin05/20/13
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Video: The Road to Node.js v1.0

This is from the "Road to Node.js v1.0" event where Isaac Schlueter and Bert Belder talked about what's coming in Node.js v1.0. Here Isaac dives into the state of Node, what will be improved in v1.0 and some of the philosophy guiding Node.js development.

Rob Williams05/20/13
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Later Safari, for Now

My uses for Google are few to none these days, but sadly, I just can‘t put up with Safari‘s horribly rapacious misuse of resources any longer, so I‘ve started using Chrome.

Allen Coin05/20/13
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Theseus: A new type of JavaScript debugger for Node.js and Chrome

Theseus , an extension of the Brackets code editor, is a debugger for JavaScript, Chrome, and both simultaneously.

Leigh Shevchik05/19/13
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Getting Ready for DjangoCon Europe!

Believe it or not, PyCon 2013 was two (short) months ago. And those of us on the New Relic Python agent team have been very busy creating new coolness to share with the Python and Django communities at the upcoming DjangoCon Europe!

Leigh Shevchik05/18/13
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Why I Became a Mentor

Last October, I signed up to mentor high school girls in how to develop, pitch and market a mobile application. Technovation Challenge is an awesome program designed to encourage girls to consider careers in technology by developing confidence and teamwork in a supportive environment.

Trevor Parsons05/18/13
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April NodeJs MeetUp in Dublin – from a newbie’s perspective.

As usual there was a good turn out at the monthly Node.js Dublin event in Engine Yard recently. Although some of the Logentries team have been working with Node.js for some time I have to admit I am a bit of a newbie…

Andrey Prikaznov05/18/13
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Pane for drawing in pseudo 3D

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a pane for drawing that is spinning on its axis (on an html5 canvas object).

Peter Zaitsev05/17/13
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Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 1

Over the past few weeks I have been looking at a preview release of Virident’s vCache software, which is a kernel module and set of utilities designed to provide functionality similar to that of FlashCache.

Mikko Ohtamaa05/17/13
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Putting breakpoints to HTML templates in Python

Python offers many different template engines for web application development to turn your view logic to HTML code on the server and then send the resulting HTML code to a web browser.