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Sasha Goldshtein06/27/11
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SELA Developer Days 2011 - .NET Debugging

As I wrote about a month ago, this week is a very busy one for us – we’re hosting the SELA Developer Days conference at SELA’s headquarters. The conference registration was truly overwhelming – there are close to 600 participants scheduled to attend...

Rafał Kuć06/27/11
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Solr filters: KeepWordFilter

This time I decided to look at one of the unusual filters available in the standard distribution of Solr. The first one in my hands is a filter called KeepWordFilter.

Martin Hinshelwood06/24/11
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Configuring a PowerShell Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform

We have a customer who really, really want to ship source code from Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Perforce. Why you might ask… Well for many companies they can’t just migrate, they either need some sort of safety net, or have an external requirement...

Brian Swan06/24/11
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SQL Server JumpIn! Camp Wrap Up

As I arrived yesterday for day 4 (the last day) of the SQL Server JumpIn! Camp, one participant said to me,“I’m starting to feel worn down.” I think that was the general sentiment of everyone that was there…and with good reason.

Ayende Rahien06/24/11
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Raccoon Blog and RavenDB–One month later

One of the fun parts about RavenDB is that it will self optimize itself for you depending on how you are using your data. With this blog, I decided when going live with RavenDB that I would not follow the best practices of ensuring static indexes for...

Nicholas Dunn06/23/11
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Arduino Cookbook - A Review

Background I have always been interested in technology, which is why I became a computer programmer. I’ve been tinkering with different programming languages for most of my life, but have...

Gil Fink06/22/11
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Making a Reverse Geocoding to Find an Address

I had a request from a colleague of mine to help him with a geocoding problem. The colleague needed to find an address by a given latitude and longitude which were supplied by a smartphone consumer. The example in this post will show you how you can use...

Giorgio Sironi06/21/11
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Monitoring on Unix from scratch

Linux, and in general many Unix-like systems, bundle lots of useful command line tools for monitoring the resources of a machine for performance's sake, with tracked parameters such as occupied memory, CPU utilization, or disk requests.This list of commands,...

Patrick Debois06/20/11
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Installable Vagrant Boxes

We distribute vagrantbox to people demo-ing our project. It is a hassle to install the whole setup for non-IT people The following is a proof of concept to make a self installing vagrant machine. To create the box you need: jruby installed To run the box:

Gunnar Peipman06/15/11
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MiniProfiler: Lightweight profiler for ASP.NET web applications

I found very cool small profiler that can also be used on production sites to quickly detect bottle necks in web application code. The profiler is called MiniProfiler and in this posting I will introduce you how to use it in your code.

Giorgio Sironi06/14/11
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Parallelism for dummies

If you have not lived under a rock, you have probably heard that the clock frequencies of our CPUs haven't increased in years, and they probably won't in the next ones. This speed barrier, imposed by the limits to miniaturization, is the driving force behind...

Sagar H Ganatra06/08/11
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Server Monitoring in CF 9.0.1 - Multi Server monitor changes

Multi server monitor enables you to monitor multiple ColdFusion instances and at any point one can check the load on the added instance. If your remote server is running on the jetty (please refer to my previous post here) i.e. when the remote machine...

Patrick Debois06/07/11
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Puppet Homebrew Package Provider

I've become a big fan of homebrew package system on Macosx. I moved away from macports because it allows me to easily change the way packages are compiled: sometimes I need experimental versions of software or versions that are not in macports yet.

Patrick Debois06/03/11
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Vagrant Testing, Testing, One Two

Now that we have Vagrant up and running with our favorite Config Management, let's see how we can integrate testing into our workflow. Given our awesome project from my 'Using Vagrant as a Team' post we have the following components:

Alex Tkachman05/31/11
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Groovy++ in action: Gretty/GridGain/REST/Websockets

This article can be seen both as tutorial on Gretty web server and yet another demonstration how powerful and expressive can be Groovy++.

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