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Eric Gregory04/24/13
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Being a Data Scientist at Tumblr and Kickstarter

Data scientists from Tumblr, Kickstarter, and other sites discuss leveraging big data in a startup situation, in this panel from DataGotham 2012.

Trevor Parsons04/24/13
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IP Address Resolving Now Optional

This is a neat feature. Whenever we see an IP address in your logs, we do automatic IP resolving so that you see immeadiately who is behind it.

Casey Watson04/24/13
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What We (Developers) Take For Granted

A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation over dinner with a few fellow local development community members. As it always does, the conversation eventually shifted to work and we began discussing the implications of “the cloud” and it’s gradual redefinition of how we look at provisioning compute capacity.

Eugen Paraschiv04/23/13
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Maven Deploy to Nexus

This article will show how to deploy the artifacts of a project to Nexus, with Maven.

Mark Needham04/23/13
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Puppet: Installing Oracle Java

In order to run the neo4j server on my Ubuntu 12.04 Vagrant VM I needed to install the Oracle/Sun JDK which proved to be more difficult than I’d expected.

Eric Minick04/23/13
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In Agile, Put Retrospective First

This morning I was speaking with some of our friends at VersionOne at the Mile High Agile Conference. We were discussing Agile practices and the phrase “Kanban-ish” came up.

Patrick Debois04/23/13
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What if Devops was Invented by Coca Cola?

Ever wondered what Devops would look like when it would be invented by Coca Cola? Enjoy my Ignite session from Devopsdays Paris 2013.

Chris Haddad04/22/13
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DevOps Ticket Reduction

A reduction in DevOps tickets not only drives IT efficiency, but also creates a cultural shift where teams look forward to rapidly achieving accomplishments. Business stakeholders operate in an agile environment where no change request is too small, and rapidly testing business ideas is the new normal.

Mark Needham04/22/13
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dpkg/apt-cache: Useful Commands

As I’ve mentioned in a couple of previous posts I’ve been playing around with creating a Vagrant VM that I can use for my neo4j hacking which has involved a lot of messing around with installing apt packages.

Ralf Quebbemann04/21/13
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VirtualBox - Let Host-Only Mode Access the Internet

In an earlier post I described networking modes in VirtualBox. Combining those modes you'll get some kind of swiss knife in realizing somehow exotic networking modes in your VMs.

Jessica Thornsby04/21/13
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Understanding SmartSVN’s Revision Graph

SmartSVN, the popular cross-platform client for Apache Subversion, provides all the tools you need to manage your SVN projects out of the box, including a comprehensive Revision Graph.

Harish Ganesan04/20/13
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Understanding the Amazon EBS IO Block Size and its Performance Impacts

Understand how IO Block sizes play a major role in Performance of an Amazon EBS

Marton Sigmond04/20/13
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Why Using OSGi Pays Out

A very short summary of what OSGi provides, and why using it pays out.

Adam Warski04/20/13
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Per-Commit E-mail GitHub Notifications

One thing that I miss in GitHub is the ability to get e-mail notifications on each push/commit. There is an option to set an e-mail notification address in the repository settings, but you can only specify a single, global address, and only the administrator can do it.