
I live in Cape Town, South Africa. Apart from the great beaches, a
mountain in the middle of the city, good food, and good wine there is a great enthusiasm...
2 replies - 24555 views - 01/25/11 by Aslam Khan in Articles

A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today. New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and...
0 replies - 17998 views - 01/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Yes, let's kill productivity! Okay, not productivity but all attempts
to measure the productivity of software engineers. It is a flawed,
pointless, futile...
2 replies - 4050 views - 12/14/10 by Dan Pritchett in News

With their Apache-licensed DeltaCloud project and now with today's acquisition of a Cloud tech startup called Makara, RedHat is building a broad foundation for...
0 replies - 21475 views - 12/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

rPath, the service factory for on-demand IT, and CollabNet®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (Agile ALM) in the Cloud, today announced a...
0 replies - 3633 views - 11/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements

How many of you have heard of Conway's Law? Melvin Conway postulated in 1968 that:
...organizations which design systems ... are constrained to
produce...
1 replies - 4069 views - 11/29/10 by Dan Pritchett in News

The most maintainable codebase that I worked with grew at a rate of
about ~10 KLoC per month, every month. There wasn’t a large team there,
it ranged fro...
3 replies - 7798 views - 11/26/10 by Ayende Rahien in News

rPath extends its Linux release automation strength to Windows
applicationsDeploying .NET and other Windows Applications is complex,
time-consuming and...
0 replies - 4586 views - 11/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements

Developers are getting GWT (Google Web Toolkit) features that were originally planned for version 2.2 by downloading the 2.1 RC1 version, which was just...
0 replies - 23908 views - 10/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Check out "End
User 2.0: When Employees Have All The Answers" in InformationWeek.
This is about adoption of non-approved technology. Think...
0 replies - 2032 views - 09/17/10 by Steven Lott in News

Have you ever been on a team of aces – the best of the best – and failed? Have you ever been on a team that consisted of average people, found your...
0 replies - 7316 views - 08/12/10 by Amr Elssamadisy in Articles

Several months after the acquisition of GemStone, Spring has officially released a project integrating the company's technology. The first milestone of...
1 replies - 17884 views - 08/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The fourth JBoss Application Server 6.0 milestone was released this week. It is the first to include support for EJB 3.1 Timer Service and EJB 3.1...
1 replies - 14166 views - 07/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers. That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first...
0 replies - 15479 views - 07/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Download your free copy of our newest Refcard on Getting Started with NoSQL and Data Scalability now! This DZone Refcard demystifies NoSQL and data...
0 replies - 16593 views - 07/06/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements