Ben Kepes02/08/13
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Exciting times at Appsecute at the moment as the team begins to unveil its new vision for the company.
Tim Spann02/08/13
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We're not using BDD on any projects yet -- what are you using?
John Cook02/07/13
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As I’ve blogged about before, and mentioned again in my previous post, the great mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré put in two hours of work in the morning and two in the evening.
Jurgen Appelo02/07/13
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It is clear that the annual bonus system doesn't work. A tremendous amount of research says that it demotivates people, destroys collaboration, and causes dysfunctional behavior among managers and employees.
Giuseppe Vettigli02/07/13
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In Network Analysis the identification of important nodes is a common task. We have various centrality measures that we can use and in this post we will focus on the Betweenness Centrality.
Ralf Quebbemann02/07/13
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VirtualBox offers different networking modes. Sometimes it's a little bit confusing to understand what each mode is doing exactly and which mode you should choose.
Tomasz Nurkiewicz02/06/13
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For years I've been taught that breaking continuous integration build is something that should be avoided under all circumstances.
Rob Gordon02/06/13
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Poor Oddjob, I thought as I read Craig Flichel’s Feature Comparison of Java Job Schedulers featuring Obsidian, Quartz, Cron4j and Spring. Yet again it hasn’t made the grade, it’s been passed over for the scheduling team.
Kris Buytaert02/06/13
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During my Puppetcamp Gent talk last week, I explained how to get alerts based on trends from graphite. A number of people asked me how to do that.
Baruch Sadogursky02/06/13
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The Jenkins Artifactory plugin includes now environment variables interpolation during generic resolution (in addition to generic deployment interpolation), and some minor bug fixes.
Martin Hinshelwood02/06/13
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The TFS Automation Platform is dead, long live the TfPlugable! It has been a long time since I have talked about the TFS Automation Platform that I had almost forgotten about it myself.
Eric Minick02/05/13
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While general anesthesia is designed to make a surgery patient unconscious, we actually know very little about what consciousness actually is. One of the models of consciousness put forward by Giulio Tononi is that a conscious mind is an integrated mind.
Luis Atencio02/05/13
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In the rapid changing software world of today, companies and individuals have come up with many methods in order to minimize the time to market gap, i.e the time it takes for your idea to materialize in production.
Ralf Quebbemann02/05/13
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Most Linux desktops / window managers support it out of the box: Multiple virtual desktops. I really miss the feature on Windows 7.
Shelan Perera02/05/13
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This tutorial will show how you can automate the application Governance using WSO2 Governance Registry and Jenkins (for Build Automation).
Johannes Brodwall02/04/13
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When I learned math in elementary school, I would reach for my calculator. But my father stopped me: “You only get to use the calculator when you can do math without it.”
Mark Needham02/04/13
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Over the last 18 months or so I’ve worked on a variety of different projects in different organisations and seen some patterns around the way that automation was done which I thought would be interesting to document.
Brian Gracely02/04/13
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Brian talks with Doug Hairfield (@knucklesandwich, Manager of Systems Engineering and Continuous Integration @Bronto) about how he’s transformed the way they do continuous deployment and “manage hardware as code.”
Build A Cloud02/04/13
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Apache CloudStack 4.0 incubating was released a while ago now. The testing procedure used by the community to vote on the release candidate included using the new CloudStack sandbox DevCloud.
John Cook02/03/13
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I recently ran across a tip from Mark Hepburn that caught my eye. The content of the tip isn’t important here but rather his justification: "It sounds trivial, but it can really help keep you in the flow."
Eric Gregory02/03/13
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From Airbnb Tech Talks 2012, a guide to big mistakes and how to make them from former Facebook infrastructure engineer Aaron Priestley.
Eric Gregory02/02/13
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Confreaks has an excellent collection of 2012 Airbnb Tech Talks, including this great presentation from Erica Kwan on how mobile payment platform Square stays up and stable.
Vladimir Carrer02/01/13
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Yesterday I found an incredible post on creating a one line browser notepad by Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga. The idea is using your browser as a minimal, distractions-free text editor.
Douglas Rathbone02/01/13
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Many development teams turn on Nuget Package Restore to save from having to check packages into Source Control. It’s also quite popular with project teams with a Continuous Integration setup. I recommend against it.
