Links for December 22nd

December 23, 2011

The Lives They Lived – Dennis Ritchie, b. 1941 – In a sense, Ritchie has enabled us to all become programmers. And this alone should give us the power to create our own digital future. Hello, new world. InfoQ: Code2Cloud: Automating The Whole Software Dev/Deploy Cycle – Ryan Slobojan presents Code2Cloud used to automatically set [...]

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Links for December 10th through December 15th

December 16, 2011

Chrome 15 puts IE8 in rear-view mirror, takes No. 1 spot – Google's Chrome 15 has jumped into the number one spot, replacing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) as the world's most popular browser edition. The 10 Most Important Open Source Projects of 2011 | Linux.com – It turns out that 2011 was a banner [...]

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Links for November 9th through November 13th

November 13, 2011

The End of Borders and the Future of Books – Businessweek – An inside look at the real reasons for the once-beloved chain's demise New features and improvements in Hibernate 4.0 – New features and improvements in Hibernate 4.0 Hibernate Core Migration Guide : 4.0 – Get ready for Hibernate 4.0 with this Hibernate core [...]

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Links for November 4th through November 6th

November 6, 2011

The Netflix Tech Blog: Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS – Over a million writes per second – Netflix is using Cassandra on AWS as a key infrastructure component of its globally distributed streaming product. Cassandra scales linearly far beyond our current capacity requirements, and very rapid deployment automation makes it easy to manage. In particular, [...]

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Links for July 25th through July 29th

July 29, 2011

When Patents Attack! | This American Life – We take you inside this war, and tell the fascinating story of how an idea enshrined in the US constitution to promote progress and innovation, is now being used to do the opposite InfoQ: Kanban System Design – Karl Scotland on Kanban as a way of creating [...]

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Links for May 26th through May 29th

May 29, 2011

danwebb.net – It’s About The Hashbangs – Hashbangs(#!) URL syntax is destructive to the web. The implementation is inappropriate, even as a temporary measure or as a downgrade experience. Videos Posted by Facebook Engineering: Push: Tech Talk- May 26, 2011 [HQ] – In this tech talk, Chuck Rossi will dig into the tools and processes [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for April 2nd through April 3rd

April 3, 2011

As Big Data Takes Off, the Hadoop Wars Begin: Cloud Computing News « – It turns out "big data" isn’t just a buzzword, but a legitimate concern for companies across the board. The action is centered around Hadoop, the flagship technology for storing and processing large amounts of unstructured data. SharePoint: Is It Worth Using [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 30th through April 2nd

April 2, 2011

Google mobile search gets redesigned results for stocks – When you search for your favorite stock ticker symbol on your smartphone, you'll be presented with a result page that can be seen to the left in the image above. It displays an interactive graph on a 'card', and you can switch the amount of time [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 26th through March 29th

March 29, 2011

IntelliJ IDEA Static Analysis: Custom Rules with Structural Search & Replace | JetBrains TV – This screencast demonstrates IDEA's static code analysis features and how to write your own rule using Structural Search & Replace. I'll give you a quick overview of IDEA inspections, show you how to use Structural Search, and then demonstate creating [...]

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Daily del.icio.us for March 17th through March 19th

March 19, 2011

PyCon 2011: How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped – PyCon US Videos – 2009, 2010, 2011 – blip.tv – This talk will give an overview of the first two years of Dropbox, the team formation, our early guiding principles and philosophies, what worked for us and what we learned while building the company [...]

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