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Trisha Gee05/24/13
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Be an Ambassador for Programming

You know how I keep banging on about attracting different types of people into programming? You know how we say we need to get them young?

Steven Willmott05/23/13
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Panoptix APIs: Helping to Create Better Building Efficiency Applications

The Panoptix software is all about increasing options for delivering better building efficiency. The Panoptix platform is open and offers APIs so their partners can offer their efficiency applications that take advantage of Panoptix data.

Mark O'neill05/23/13
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Identity is the New Perimeter

It was Bill Gates who said that security should be based on "policy, not topology". It's a phrase which always stuck with me. Rather than basing security on where something is, you use a policy which is independent of the network.

David Pollak05/23/13
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Project Plugh: Open Source Log Analysis

I'm building an open source log manage/analysis tool that will offer folks what Splunk offers folks, except it's open.

Steven Willmott05/23/13
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API Economics: Create More Value than you Capture

When building an API, you want to create a lot of value for your users obviously, but you should also not try to capture all of that value. You should create more than enough.

Sam Lee05/23/13
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What if Enterprise IT Built Race Cars?

How a race car would turn out if it were developed by the equivalent of an Enterprise IT department (without DevOps).

Eric Gregory05/23/13
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Building Human Fault-Tolerant Systems

In this really excellent talk from Strata 2013, Twitter's Nathan Marz walks through the challenges and serious rewards of building systems that are resilient even in the face of human error...

Mitch Pronschinske05/22/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 23)

It's time to make Java debugging suck less, and it's also time to start pronouncing "GIF" "jif". Plus, some crucial employability tips and the real difference between "web" and "enterprise" developers.

Col Wilson05/22/13
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Python _imaging Cannot Open Shared Object File

I'm using a 64 bit Linux, and I was having a lot of trouble getting Calibre to convert books into the Kindle-loving mobi format...

Steven Lott05/22/13
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Legacy Code Preservation: Some Patterns

With modern languages and tools, legacy code conversion is quite simple. The impediments are simply managerial in nature. No one wants to have a carefully maintained piece of software declared a liability and discarded. Everyone wants to think of it as an asset that will be carefully preserved.

Jurgen Appelo05/22/13
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What Makes a Great Conference?

I’ve been asking around on email and on the social networks what makes a conference memorable, special, or amazing. This topic has my special interest, not only because I attend between 20-25 conferences per year, but also because I’m trying to help make the DARE 2013 a great experience.

Yuriy Lopotun05/22/13
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How to Stand Out at Work: 10 Tips for Programmers (Part 2)

This is the second part of the article in which I’m sharing a list of simple tips that, in my opinion, can help programmers succeed at their current workplace.

Eric Gregory05/22/13
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Dev of the Week: Mahdi Yusuf

This week we're talking to Mahdi Yusuf, developer at Source Metrics, active member of the Python community, and creator of Neckbeard Republic.

Nick Johnson05/22/13
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Algorithm of the Week: Damn Cool Cardinality Estimation

Suppose you have a very large dataset - far too large to hold in memory - with duplicate entries. You want to know how many duplicate entries, but your data isn't sorted, and it's big enough that sorting and counting is impractical. How do you estimate how many unique entries the dataset contains?

Rafał Kuć05/22/13
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Solr 4.2: Index Structure Reading API

With the release of Solr 4.2 we’ve got the possibility to use the HTTP protocol to get information about Solr index structure. Let's look at the new API by example.