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.

Sam Lee05/17/13
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Puppet vs CFEngine

A comparison of the configuration management tools Puppet and CFEngine.

Jeremy Hess05/17/13
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Typemock CEO: Software Development Without Unit Testing is Reckless

“Any software programmer that does not do unit testing is a reckless coder,” declared Lopian. “Unit testing is an essential part of any software development process. It allows you to deliver working code, with fewer bugs, faster."

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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How to Write a Unit Test

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...