Programming

It’s insidious. It lurks in damp, dark corners and often goes undetected until it is too late. The symptoms are obvious to those that have encountered it before but a lack of communication often allows it to fester for years right under the nose of upper management. It’s the status quo. Preview Text: If you take anything away from this...

DDoSaaS Miiiight Be a Little Sketchy Surprise! If you PayPal someone to conduct a DDoS attack, things might get a little shady. Brian Krebs investigates Ragebooter, and finds a one-man operation running out of Memphis, Tennessee, possibly with the authorities’ blessing. Preview Text: Today: The sketchy world of DDoSaaS, Apple's taxes,...

A few days ago I was going through a project's Maven dependencies, removing unused junk, checking jar file version numbers adding a little dependency management and generally tidying up (yes, I know that this isn't something we often get time to do, but even Maven dependencies can be a form of technical debt). After recompiling and running the unit tests I ran some end to end tests only to...

A new feature of Lucene 4 – pluggable codecs – allows for the modification of Lucene’s underlying storage engine. Working with codecs and examining their output yields fascinating insights into how exactly Lucene’s search works in its most fundamental form. Preview Text: A new feature of Lucene 4 – pluggable codecs – allows for the...

Files can be added, committed and removed from git repositories using one or more of the following commands: Adding a file named "testFile.xml" to the index. git add testFile.xml Testing to view differences between the index and HEAD git diff --cached produces something like the following: Preview Text: Files can be added, committed...

Anyone that has used DevKit to write a Mule extension and then wanted to add it to Studio, may have notice that the extension will appear under the Cloud Legacy Sponsored: unsponsored

I’m at the Much Ado About Agile conference this week, in beautiful Vancouver. During lunch one day, one of the conference participants started talking about premature optimization of code. Preview Text: I’m at the Much Ado About Agile conference this week, in beautiful Vancouver. During lunch one day, one of the conference participants started...

I attended the SATURN 2013 conference in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, which is an annual practitioner conference about software architecture, organised by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University. The conference is in its 9th year now, but it's not something that's been on my radar to be honest, partly because it's in the US and partly because I've not heard...

Several posts and articles, this week, starting with this nice Preview Text: Arthur Charpentier's regular data link roundup explores quantified consensus on anthropogenic global warming, compares SAS and R for business analysts, and much more. Plus: zombies (with R). Legacy Sponsored: ...

At the annual IOUC (International Oracle User Community) Summit, held January 14–16, 2013, at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, more than 100 top user group leaders from around the world gathered to share best practices, provide feedback, and receive updates from leading Oracle developers. Preview Text: Oracle Java...