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The State of Open-Source Monitoring

Wanted to share this great presentation from Jason Dixon of GitHub... Take a look at the history of open source monitoring tools, an attempt at fixing our...

1 replies - 2344 views - 11/01/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Are Tweets More Accurate Than Science Papers?

John Myles White brings up an interesting question on Twitter:Ioannidis thinks most published biological research findings are false. Do you think...

0 replies - 1038 views - 11/01/12 by John Cook in Articles

What Does it Take to Support Solaris?

Java is a cross platform runtime. You write your code on a platform of your choice, test it on a different platform and then push it into...

0 replies - 605 views - 11/01/12 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

Anecdote Driven Development & Science in Software Development

Throughout my work with clients, I have taken on different roles from project to project - I've sat on both sides of the table: I have been in the...

0 replies - 1022 views - 10/31/12 by Wille Faler in Articles

How We're Using Story Points

A couple of weeks ago Joshua Kerievsky wrote a post describing how he and his teams don’t use story points anymore because of the problems they’d had...

0 replies - 995 views - 10/31/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

How to Solve Unfamiliar Problems

Most of us spend most of our time solving problems in a domain we’re familiar with. I code and writing code is similar across desktops, web, iOS, etc....

1 replies - 1821 views - 10/28/12 by David Pollak in Articles

Carmack on Static Analysis and Functional Purity

In the absence of anything worthwhile of my own to write here at the moment, I thought I’d instead highlight a couple of interesting blog posts...

0 replies - 1387 views - 10/25/12 by Dan Dyer in Articles

Installing And Running Hubot - A Bot for Automation and Fun!

In this post we are going to learn how to install hubot and make it work over XMPP protocol (using an openfire server).  We'll also see how it can...

0 replies - 4180 views - 10/24/12 by Alex Soto in Articles

Maven Tips

I am a bit of a Maven fanboy. Actually I am more of a - use anything available to make your task easier, smoother and more efficient - person....

0 replies - 3485 views - 10/23/12 by Partha Bhattacharjee in Articles

Combining Continuous Delivery Practices with Maven and Jenkins

Earlier this October, I was given the privilege of speaking at JavaOne regarding the fusion of contemporary Continuous Delivery processes and practices...

0 replies - 3360 views - 10/21/12 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Hot Deploy Still Hell

Whoever coined the phrase Open Sores should get some kind of award, if not one from the Nobel committee, maybe a plaque from the Friar‘s Club. Funny and...

0 replies - 2832 views - 10/17/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

Toward a Test Model

Software is still mostly stuck in the simulation stage. The original Agile book, Kent Beck‘s Extreme Programming was...

0 replies - 892 views - 10/14/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

Code Inventory and Tracking Releases

You know by now that Code Inventory is something of an obsession with me. Like it or not, most of us, whether developers or sysadmins, work in a service...

0 replies - 3683 views - 10/14/12 by Daniel Ackerson in Articles

Cage Match! Sencha Touch vs. jQuery Mobile

Have you gotten the mandate from the higher-ups to write a cross-platform mobile app and you just don't have time to learn the skills for building native...

8 replies - 9953 views - 10/12/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Using Hudson/Jenkins to Diagnose that Intermittent Failure

I have been working on one of those intermittent bugs that just won't reproduce on my machine; but will reproduce intermittently on other machines while...

0 replies - 2644 views - 10/11/12 by Gerard Davison in Articles