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Yuriy Lopotun05/22/13
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How to Stand Out at Work: 10 Tips for Programmers (Part 2)

This is the second part of the article in which I’m sharing a list of simple tips that, in my opinion, can help programmers succeed at their current workplace.

Eric Gregory05/22/13
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Dev of the Week: Mahdi Yusuf

This week we're talking to Mahdi Yusuf, developer at Source Metrics, active member of the Python community, and creator of Neckbeard Republic.

Nick Johnson05/22/13
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Algorithm of the Week: Damn Cool Cardinality Estimation

Suppose you have a very large dataset - far too large to hold in memory - with duplicate entries. You want to know how many duplicate entries, but your data isn't sorted, and it's big enough that sorting and counting is impractical. How do you estimate how many unique entries the dataset contains?

Rafał Kuć05/22/13
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Solr 4.2: Index Structure Reading API

With the release of Solr 4.2 we’ve got the possibility to use the HTTP protocol to get information about Solr index structure. Let's look at the new API by example.

Mikio Braun05/22/13
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A Visit to the Valley

It’s one thing to know abstractly that the Silicon Valley is home to most computer related companies, and to drive down Highway 101 and see another well known company every 30 seconds or so.

Mike Cottmeyer05/22/13
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Getting Teams to Deliver Predictably

As recently as this week, I’ve been involved in conversations with customers about how we can help make their teams deliver more predictably. How can they meet commitments on all levels of the organization, including project, program, and portfolio?

Christopher Taylor05/22/13
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Escape Process’ Death Valley, or How to Tell a Cat From a Washing Machine

More and more leading edge thinkers are starting to focus on this dichotomy of approaches – organic vs mechanical. Each rightly has it’s place in any practitioner’s toolkit.

Eric Gregory05/21/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 21)

Today: The sketchy world of DDoSaaS, Apple's taxes, bringing the power of NumPy to HPC, why Googlers aren't using Glass at I/O, and some truly clever 3D-printed garden contraptions.

Romain Manni-bucau05/21/13
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Arquillian Testing Guide

Review First the progression of the book is globally: A presentation of Arquillian What was done before Arquillian and why it answers to needs of today Arquillian and...

Eric Gregory05/20/13
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DevOps with Puppet Enterprise

This two-minute overview explains how Puppet Enterprise can support DevOps practice.

Gary Sieling05/20/13
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Building a full-text index of git commits using lunr.js and Github APIs

Github has a nice API for inspecting repositories – it lets you read gists, issues, commit history, files and so on. Git repository data lends itself to demonstrating the power of combining full text and faceted search...

Mark Needham05/20/13
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Unix: Working with parts of large files

I usually use Vim and the ‘:set number’ when I want to refer to line numbers in a file but Chris showed me that we can achieve the same thing with e.g. ‘less -N data/log/neo4j.0.0.log’.

Eric Minick05/19/13
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Software Supply Chains and DevOps

During our induction into the IBM family, one of our new colleagues told an anecdote about a firm that outsourced its mobile application development. Managing the relationship of outsourced work with what is being developed in house is a challenge similar to what manufacturers face with their supply chains.

George London05/18/13
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Postgres Fuzzy Search Using Trigrams (+/- Django)

We need a way to match queries to entities in our Postgres database. At first, this might seem like a simple problem with a simple solution, especially if you’re using the ORM; just jam the user input into an ORM filter and retrieve every matching string. But there’s a problem.

Christopher Taylor05/18/13
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The CIO is Driving IT Toward a Cliff

Respected institutions like the Harvard Business Review, the Economist and others are publishing studies that show that the average CEO is unhappy with the status quo of their own technology shops.