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By Bob GourleySign up for a fast-paced overview of the next big thing in Big Data, the Enterprise Data Hub. This webinar will be presented on Tuesday 12 Nov 2013. Here are more details: About this Webinar If you missed Strata + Hadoop World, you missed quite a bit. This year’s ev... Nov. 8, 2013 05:08 PM EST Reads: 244 |
In October of 2013 My colleague Victor Gamov and I ran a presentation “Intro to working with GIT and GitHub” for the Princeton Java Users Group. Then we’ve received a number of requests asking if a recording of this session was availabled. We didn’t record this ... Nov. 8, 2013 02:51 PM EST |
With the first widgets for opentaps 2 are some big changes: Not just a new look and feel or a new technical framework, but a whole new philosophy for building better software with open communities. This philosophy could be summed up as: Make opentaps Benefit the Maximum Number of Peo... Nov. 8, 2013 12:04 PM EST Reads: 115 |
One more efficient month with Jelastic! Let’s see what October 2013 brought to us in terms of the Java & PHP software stacks statistics. In this article, we’ll present the overall numbers, distribution by regions and the monthly/annual trends of the stacks popularity within the Jel... Nov. 7, 2013 08:55 AM EST Reads: 124 |
Below are 3 LiveLesson videos that starting today and this weekend (ends strike of midnight on Monday), that are being offering at 50% off the list price. If you have not had the opportunity to view any LiveLessons you are missing out. This is the perfect opportunity to check some of t... Nov. 1, 2013 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 405 |
 The vast majority of schema management today is handled through the generation, review, and execution of SQL scripts. These scripts can be tiny or huge; they can encapsulate the creation and relationships of several objects or they can describe a one-time alteration to a single object...Oct. 31, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 570 |
by Joseph Rickert The following is a brief report of all things R encountered in my not quite random, but nevertheless far from determined, walk through the O'Reilly Strata / Hadoop World Conference held this week in NYC. To start off, I had the pleasure of doing a 9:00 AM Monday morni... Oct. 31, 2013 07:46 AM EDT Reads: 235 |
 The data center industry is heading toward an inflection point that has significant impact on enterprises. It seems many aren't looking far enough ahead, but the timeline appears to be 12-18 months, which is not that far out! The issue is a typical supply chain issue of supply, demand ...Oct. 29, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,269 |
 Like most terms associated with any technology in the beginning of the hype cycle, programmability is being used and abused to mean a variety of different capabilities. It's important to understand what people mean when they say "programmability" because it ultimately impacts the ways ...Oct. 29, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 931 |
 It's not every day that you hear about a software project on public media, but NPR and other public outlets are covering the troubled rollout of the Healthcare.gov website nearly hourly. As a software professional, the problems I was hearing about are common in a large software projec...Oct. 28, 2013 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,158 |
 Let’s look at some best practices for using another powerful class: ThreadLocal from java.lang, which is also implemented using WeakReference.
As its name suggests, a single instance of ThreadLocal can store different values for each thread independently. Therefore, the value stored i...Aug. 31, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,243 |
By Bob GourleyWe produced this list as an aid to the enterprise CTO seeking information on the most capable mission-enabling infrastructure technologies. This is a companion piece to our list of the top analytical technologists on our Analyst One website. Our methodologies are at the b... Oct. 28, 2013 06:19 AM EDT Reads: 1,633 |
 A significant source of chatter around SDN began with a focus on the northbound interface (apparently now dubbed NBI, FWIW) at Layer 123 SDN & OpenWorld Congress 2013. A quick overview of the latest focus in SDN can be read in this SDN Central article, "ONF Will Tackle SDN’s Northbound...Oct. 26, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,055 |
 Learn how to set up Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for your node.js Application from GitHub to Heroku.
Oct. 25, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,041 |
 Learn how to set up Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for node.js apps from GitHub to Nodejitsu in less than 5 minutes.
We are proud to announce a new member in our Codeship deployments family: Nodejitsu!
Recently we experienced increasing interest in node.js deploymen...Oct. 25, 2013 03:07 PM EDT Reads: 738 |
By Bob GourleyOne of my favorite events of the year is Hadoop World. It is, as the name suggests, about Hadoop and the mission supporting applications a Hadoop-based framework can support. It is an event packed full of content on serious Hadoop related topics like Impala, Sentry, Cloud... Oct. 25, 2013 12:02 PM EDT Reads: 951 |
By Bob GourleyThe term “In-Memory Computing” is in growing use among federal technologists. The term refers to the ability to store and process data directly in the main Random Access Memory (RAM) of a computer vice storing the data off into slow devices like hard disks. By... Oct. 23, 2013 04:26 PM EDT Reads: 433 |
Finland's leading magazine publisher uses Intershop for consistency and efficiency across its comic and book club webshopsCost-effective solution enables new webshops to be launched in response to market demandsIntershop supports the Publisher's magazine subscription shop and customer ... Oct. 23, 2013 05:08 AM EDT Reads: 414 |
This book is exactly what the sub-title "A Practical Guide to Agile Requirements Discovery" says it is. The book is a very detailed breakdown of the steps that should be taken by Scrum teams that want to succeed.I have listed the chapters below to give you an overview of the topics the... Oct. 19, 2013 06:19 PM EDT Reads: 568 |
 If you have a slow test suite and you are asking yourself "how can I make my tests faster?" then you are asking the wrong question. Most chances are that you have bigger problems than just slow tests. The test slowness is merely the symptom; what you should really address is the cause....Oct. 19, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,153 |
By Bob GourleyIf you are going to be in DC 7 Nov and are a technologist that fields solutions into federal agencies here is a great opportunity to dive into the in-memory capabilities of Enterprise Ehcache. This two hour workshop is a great way to accelerate your own technical understa... Oct. 18, 2013 03:53 PM EDT Reads: 621 |
 The past few years have seen a dramatic improvement in the latency in network switches. Single ASIC based switches can all pretty much switch packets in less than a microsecond. Current 10GE switching silicon provides anywhere from 300 to 800 nanoseconds, specialized silicon shaves tha...Oct. 17, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,429 |
By Bob GourleyFederal Computer Weekly, Government Computing News and SoftwareAG have crafted an event I believe every enterprise technologist in government should be tracking. It is the 21 November 2013 Efficient IT Modernization Strategies Summit, which will be held at the Grand Hyatt... Oct. 17, 2013 03:02 PM EDT Reads: 422 |
DataStax Startup Programme lets startups deploy DataStax Enterprise (DSE) applications for free; gives small companies the tools they need to grow their business quicklyFree online training courses teach users how to develop and administer big data applications with Apache CassandraNew... Oct. 16, 2013 12:10 PM EDT Reads: 1,085 |
My top security stories of the week, as part of my work to curate the Dice Security Talent Community portal page: Big Data Detectives Why WordPress Updates Matter Bitdrop app beats NSA surveillance with anonymous encrypted file transfers Experts recommend … Continue reading ͛... Oct. 16, 2013 09:33 AM EDT Reads: 452 |
Wednesday 16 October, 2013
Foundation of next-generation Open Source Big Data Cloud computing platform runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently leverage data in multiple ways at supercomputing speed.
Forest Hill, MD –16 October 2013... Oct. 15, 2013 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,203 |
Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) specification includes remote client and local client views. In some cases, your Java application may need to have session and entity beans with local home and component interfaces and in other cases with remote ones. Let’s clarify which interface to c... Oct. 15, 2013 10:26 AM EDT Reads: 224 |
Instant API Management with Intel and Amazon
Did you know you can get started with Intel Expressway API Manager on AWS Marketplace today with only a few clicks? You can have instant API Management and enhanced EC2 security for applications and services exposed from public or hybrid clo... Oct. 11, 2013 04:10 PM EDT Reads: 1,847 |
 Developers need to be able to run tests quickly or they will stop running them.
Slow test suites are often partially caused by slow startup times. Once you've eliminated this problem, you might want to take a look at individual tests.
Note that test suites stress your code in a tot...Oct. 11, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,037 |
 I don't read nearly as much as I should. On plane rides I tend to grab a Vince Flynn, James Patterson or David Baldacci, they are usually enough to entertain me on the way there and back. One of the more interesting books I have read in recent years that does not include murderers, spi...Oct. 11, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,019 |
#SDN #OpenFlow John G (that's what we call him here on the inside) answers some burning questions about F5 and SDN before jetting off to SDN & OpenFlow World Congress.... We get a lot of questions about not just F5 and what we're doing with SDN these days, but also about Lin... Oct. 11, 2013 08:58 AM EDT Reads: 839 |
It’s time to update you with the latest data on the cloud software stacks’ distribution for September 2013. You’ll see the overall percentages for databases, Java and PHP application servers, Java and PHP versions, statistical data by regions and the last year’s trends. Dat... Oct. 10, 2013 08:01 AM EDT Reads: 329 |
 SaaS product management professionals should always remember that there are four P’s in marketing, one being product. Unfortunately, software companies have a bad habit of thinking about product in isolation from the rest of the marketing mix. This is a particularly costly mistake in S...Oct. 9, 2013 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,588 |
When I started to learn the soon-to-be-released programming language Dart, it was a love from first sight. I like Java, and Dart is like Java, but a little better. I’m planning to write a series of blogs about Dart, but I couldn’t resist writing about the missing protected ... Oct. 8, 2013 08:12 AM EDT Reads: 255 |
Although this book is written for the Java programmer, I would recommend reading it to any .NET or iOS developer as well. It is a must read for the Java developer, but is also a valuable read for developers of other languages because the guidelines are often built around a programmer's... Oct. 6, 2013 07:26 PM EDT Reads: 510 |
Many developers use Memcached for their projects, but only a few of them know exactly how this caching solution works. Let’s dive into the world of Memcached to learn more about its memory allocation and how to prevent fragmented memory for your Java and PHP applications. Memcach... Oct. 4, 2013 10:08 AM EDT Reads: 305 |
Infrastructure management vendor INETCO has launched INETCO Netstream for Splunk, which aims to solve one of the emerging problems of cloud computing.
The Canadian vendor created the app so that transactional data could be fed into Splunk’s data analytics platform. By capturing ... Oct. 2, 2013 01:23 PM EDT Reads: 489 |
Silanis’ cloud-based e-signature solution, e-SignLive, is built using a REST-based API, which has long enabled our customers to add e-signature capabilities to their homegrown or third-party systems. To help make integration with e-SignLive even easier, we decided to introduce Software... Oct. 2, 2013 12:28 PM EDT Reads: 788 |
 The Washington Post recently ran an article by Andrea Peterson on RIM (now BlackBerry), with a chart they called "The decline of blackberry in one chart". But more than the story of BlackBerry this chart rang home for me the enormous dynamics of a relative new industry.
As their chart...Oct. 2, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,620 |
Two visionary Kaazing engineers, David Witherspoon and Prashant Khanal, gave an exciting presentation at JavaOne this year: JMS, WebSocket, and the Internet of Things — Controlling Physical Devices on the Real Time Web. David and Prashant led the audience through the … Continue r... Oct. 1, 2013 12:31 PM EDT Reads: 901 |
