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Chris Spagnuolo05/17/13
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How to Cross the Chasm

If you haven't heard of him before, Geoff Moore writes and speaks about the technology adoption lifecycle and the marketing and business strategies for successfully navigating this lifecycle.

Tr Jordan05/17/13
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Monitoring Background Jobs in Ruby’s Resque

Let's look at how to get visibility into an important component of any complex system: the messaging queue. Specifically, let’s look at how to trace a job from Rails using Resque.

Hubert Klein Ikkink05/17/13
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Grails Goodness: Checking Results from Forward Action in Controller Unit Tests

In Grails we can write unit tests for controllers. We can check for example the results from a redirect() or render() method.

Dror Helper05/16/13
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I found myself thinking – what are steps I take when writing a new unit test? I’ve been writing them for so long and never noticed I’ve been following a “methodology” of sort. And so without further ado – here is the steps I take when writing a new unit test...

Christopher Taylor05/16/13
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Can IT Organizations Deliver Business Outcomes?

Most people within technology feel a healthy amount of concern about how they’ll navigate so many disruptive changes happening simultaneously. Each of what Gartner calls the Nexus of Forces, social, mobile, cloud, and information is highly disruptive on their own.

Paul Reed05/16/13
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The Ship Show: Does Your Entire Team Have to Git It?

Version control is becoming a ubiquitous part of the “DevOps movement,” and we talk through what level of understanding should be expected, what level of training should be provided, and whether those are different for different teams or different tools.

Jim Bird05/16/13
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Can Anything Stop the Bad Guys?

On average, web sites are getting more secure each year: the average web site had over 1,000 vulnerabilities in 2007, and only 56 in 2012. SQL injection, the most popular and most serious attack vector, is found in only 7% of their customer’s web sites.

Rob Sanders05/15/13
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PowerShell, Visual Studio and You

Recently I needed to write up a new Powershell script to automate some actions independently of our major release cycle. This took me down a road with two possible options.

Eric Gregory05/15/13
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DevOps and Productivity

This five minute Ignite talk argues that DevOps consistently beats out traditional IT ops strategies, taking a look at a 2013 survey.

Eric Gregory05/15/13
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Dev of the Week: Michael Sahota

This week we're talking to Michael Sahota, Certified Scrum Master, active member of the Agile community, and co-organizer of Agile Tour Toronto.

Peter Zaitsev05/15/13
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Is Synchronous Replication right for your app?

There’s a lot of different facts about Galera that come into play here, and it isn’t always obvious how they will affect your database workload.

Eric Gregory05/15/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (5/15)

Today: The Universal Bytecode, an old math problem solved, the sound of sorting (algorithms), and a solution for automating development environments. Plus: the long history of selfish generations.

Eric Gregory05/15/13
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Growing Pains with Chef

From OpsCode, a thirty-minute tale on the triumphs and hurdles Turner Broadcasting System's team encountered as it attempted to implement DevOps and deploy Chef.

John Cook05/14/13
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On Dogfooding

Dogfooding is a great idea, but it’s no substitute for usability testing. I get the impression that some products, if they’re tested at all, are tested by developers intimately familiar with how they’re intended to be used.

Hubert Klein Ikkink05/14/13
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Grails Goodness: Testing Views and Templates

Grails has great support for testing. We can unit test controllers, taglibs, services and much more. One of the things we can unit test are views and templates.