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Bill Armstrong10/14/12
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Weekly Poll: In a World without Java. . .

Java is the bread and butter of many programmers on DZone. We don't think that a bakery strike would lead to mass starvation, though. We'd find something else to eat. The question for this week is, if the bakeries were all gone, what would you eat?

Anoop Madhusudanan10/13/12
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The Problem with Being Passionate about Technologies

I believe in being a passionate developer, and I appreciate having passionate people on my team and around me. The real problem is being subjective about something just because you are passionate about the same.

Sara Chipps10/11/12
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This is Why We Need More Women in Technology

Many people I meet ask me a variant of this question: "I understand we want more women in technology, but why?" The reason is threefold.

Corey Goldberg10/11/12
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Multi-Mechanize: An Open-Source Framework for Performance and Load Testing

I put together a slide-deck to help introduce Multi-Mechanize. I wanted something a little friendlier and easier to digest than "go read the project wiki."

Eric Genesky10/11/12
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Have You Checked out the DZone Tech Library?

If you haven't had a chance (or didn't know about it), take a stroll over to DZone's tech library.

Michael Dubakov10/10/12
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Learning How to Learn

I’d like to talk about three aspects of knowledge: span, depth, and connections between the disciplines.

Prabath Siriwardena10/10/12
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What OAuth Lacks: Resource Owner Initiated OAuth Delegation

I'll be going on vacation for two weeks - now I want to delegate some of my access rights to Peter only for that time. Conceptually OAuth fits nicely here. But - this is a use case which is initiated by the Resource Owner - which is not addressed in the OAuth specification.

Oliver Hookins10/10/12
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Cool, interesting, useful, unique and innovative Shell Prompts

I’m sharing my tmux PS1 prompt variable with you. It’s not the most advanced, doesn’t use all of the bells and whistles and I’m still not entirely sure the information it presents is essential but it’s a work in progress. I’d love for you to share your own in the comments in the hope of spreading know-how and ideas!

Partha Bhattacharjee10/10/12
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The Benefits of Cynicism in Coding

A healthy amount of cynicism goes a long way in designing a resilient system.

Justin Bozonier10/09/12
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Coding Quickie: Classification Tree Learning

Have you ever seen a large table of data and thought, "Somebody just vomited numbers on my monitor?" Classification trees can help you make sense of the data.

Dave Fecak10/09/12
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Things Great Engineers (almost) Never Say

If you find yourself using any of these lines on a regular basis, give some thought to why. Quoting one of these lines in a job interview could be a serious mistake.

John Cook10/09/12
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The Anti-JavaScript: Perl 6

JavaScript was designed in 10 days, but maybe that's a good thing considering a language that has been in the works for 12 years, Perl6, is constantly ridiculed.

Michael Dubakov10/09/12
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Traditional Offices Kill Creativity

Office space is something many companies don’t get. Sure, you should have a wide table, a comfortable chair and a fast workstation. But that is not the goal of the modern office.

Stoimen Popov10/09/12
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Algorithm of the Week: Shortest Path in a Graph

Since with graphs we can represent real-life problems it’s almost clear why we would need an efficient algorithm that calculates the shortest path between two vertices.

Roger Hughes10/08/12
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Apple Mac Time Machine Runs Very Slowly

Over the past few months Time Machine has become slower and slower and I realized that I had to do something about this when it took 9 hours to back up 104MB of 6.5GB.