The Cost of "Free"
"You never get anything for free." I remember my parents telling me this when I was a kid – and it's proven true time and time again.... more »
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Why doesn’t (JPA, JMA, JTA, EJB, JSF, CDI) work? JEE is “Too Complicated”
First, before reading this – you’re going to be upset with me. You’re going to disagree. I know — it’s OK. You may not even believe me,... more »
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The Ultimate Guide To Creating E-Commerce Websites With Magento (Part 2)
The 2nd part of th detailed Magento e-commerce usage guide.
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Cloud computing with Linux and Apache Hadoop
Many companies like IBM®, Google, VMWare, and Amazon have provided products and strategies for Cloud computing. This article shows you... more »
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Flexmojos Two Years Later
On March 18 2008 I checked in the first bits of code for Flexmojos. Two years later, here we are: Flexmojos now provides first-class... more »
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Daily Dose - IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees
IBM stopped its headcount of US employees, making it harder for policymakers to understand the labor market signals. Microsoft pulled... more »
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Novell Mono project bringing Silverlight to Apple iPhone
MonoDroid, which will enable deployment of .Net-based applications on Google Android phones, is in development at Novell, with a preview... more »
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OpenMQ, the Open source Message Queuing, for beginners and professionals (OpenMQ from A to Z)
Open MQ provides a broad range of functionalities in security, high availability, performance management and tuning, monitoring,... more »
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Installing and using Apache Cassandra With Java Part 1
The first part about installing and using the Apache Cassandra database on Windows / MacOS X / Linux and then communicating with it using... more »
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Cracking open five of the best open source easter eggs
A number of humorous yet undocumented features are hiding beneath the surface of some of the most popular open source software... more »
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Why Adobe is using HBase
Our team builds infrastructure services for many clients across Adobe. We have services ranging from commenting and tagging to structured... more »
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Hibernate 3.5 - JPA 2.0 New Features (part 1)
Since Hibernate 3.5.0 is about to release (currently CR-2) I'm starting to explore this version and the features available in the new JPA... more »
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GlassFish Modularity System - how to extend GlassFish CLI and Web Administration Console
GlassFish provides extension points for further extending the administration console, CLI, containers, and monitoring capabilities of... more »
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Glassfish v3 will never support clustering
Glassfish will be for productive and agile development. Weblogic is the availabillity and scalability solution. Therefore the v2 was... more »
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Microsoft Opens Up Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 Series - Microsoft News
In the latest Microsoft news, software giant announces Silverlight for multimedia Web development is now open source. Could the move spur... more »
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WANdisco to Play Key Role in TortoiseSVN Open Source Project
Stefan Küng, TortoiseSVN's Lead Developer to Head WANdisco's Efforts to Support The Number 1 Subversion Client. Stefan Küng, the lead... more »
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Wireless Digital Picture Frame Dashboard Project
When Panic, a Mac software development firm with a strong flair for visual design, showed their scratch built digital dashboard I felt an... more »
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Toward a NoSQL taxonomy
Curt Monash would be happy with 3 parts to the NoSQL taxonomy - with at least three parts to the taxonomy: 1) How data looks logically on... more »
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HelloWorld in Scalar
I’m going to be speaking at TSSJS 2010 this Wednesday but here’s a bit of preview of Scalar – Scala-based DSL on top of GridGain 3.0 runtime.
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VMware Hires Key NoSQL Developer
The VMware executive blog recently announced the hiring of Salvatore Sanfilippo, the key developer for Redis, a NoSQL database (Key... more »
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Breaking Weak CAPTCHA in… slightly more than 26 Lines of Groovy Code
A Groovy port of a python example on how to break weak captcha using tesseract-ocr.
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Open Source Android Applications for developers
As an Android apps developer, the best case study may be the open source android applications or samples. Below is my memo of open source... more »
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Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems
There are so many NoSQL systems these days that it's hard to get a quick overview of the major trade-offs involved when evaluating... more »
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Build your own dropbox (not for the faint-hearted)
Have you ever dreamed of unlimited dropbox storage and not pay for the service ? Fakr3 is showing you how to do so with Linux and... more »
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srchr: Crowdsourcing JavaScript wisdom
I've been working on a blog post about using classes and pub/sub for structuring jQuery applications, and I had in mind a pretty simple... more »
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