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Lucene Refcard

Apache Lucene is a cross-platform, high-performance, full-text search engine library. When used in conjunction with Apache Solr, it becomes a world-class search platform.

Cloud Computing with Windows Azure

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DZone's Top 5 Agile Articles of 2011

This week, DZone has gathered together its top articles in every major topical area. These Agile articles were chosen by popularity and quality of...

0 replies - 1687 views - 01/05/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Mobile Collaboration Room Under $250 with Wii Remote

0 replies - 388 views - 01/27/12 by Caleb Jenkins in Articles

Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2

Example 2: Using a Project Manager with Kanban, Silo’d Teams This is a product development organization with developers in Italy, testers in India, more...

0 replies - 76 views - 01/27/12 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1

I’ve been working with geographically distributed and dispersed teams for the past couple of years. Some of them on quite large programs, some of them...

0 replies - 73 views - 01/27/12 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Cool Visualization of Etsy's Chef Repo 2010-2011

Etsy used Gource, a software version control visualization tool to map Chef Repo. Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root...

0 replies - 1825 views - 01/26/12 by Christopher Smith in Videos

When are servers not servers?

In his Dr Dobb’s overview, Andrew Binstock talks about the prevalence of low-cost, low-powers and suggest in the title of the piece that they have begun...

0 replies - 794 views - 01/26/12 by Ted Neward in Articles

Graphite, JMXTrans, Ganglia, Logster, Collectd, say what?

Given that @patrickdebois is working on improving data collection I thought it would be a good idea to describe the setup I currently have hacked...

0 replies - 1631 views - 01/26/12 by Kris Buytaert in Articles

Unit testing when Value Objects get in the way

Tests developed during TDD can be classified into several levels, depending on the size of the object graph they need to work with. End-to-end tests span the...

0 replies - 2569 views - 01/26/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Developer Machine Automation: Dependencies

As I mentioned in a post last week we’ve been automating the setup of our developer machines with puppet over the last week and one thing that we’ve...

0 replies - 2648 views - 01/25/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Practical PHP Refactoring: Form Template Method

Duplication is not always expressed as an identical block of code: often it is subtler to discover, because it exists at an higher level of...

1 replies - 1377 views - 01/25/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Focused Retrospectives: things to watch for

A few weeks ago a slide deck from an Esther Derby presentation on retrospectives was doing the rounds on twitter and one thing that I found interesting in...

0 replies - 730 views - 01/25/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

Agile Before There Was Agile: Egoless Programming and Step-by-Step

Two key ideas underlying modern Agile development practices. First, that work can be done more effectively by Whole Teams in which people work together...

0 replies - 2226 views - 01/24/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Managing Schedule Flaws using Agile Methods

Software projects rarely come in both on time and on budget, leading to dissatisfied end users. DeMarco and Lister, authors of “Waltzing with Bears: Managing...

0 replies - 498 views - 01/24/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles