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Heterogeneous Computing Is Here, Now

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Steve Francia05/15/12
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Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP

The first of a series of post that introduce MongoDB and PHP; this one focuses mainly on the installation of MongoDB.

Swizec Teller05/15/12
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My Brain Can’t Handle OOP Anymore

In object-oriented programming everything gets muddled together. Functions are bundled with data, everything is codependent and there’s no telling what a function might do when you call it.

Giorgio Sironi05/14/12
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PHP 5.4 by examples

Aren't you already tired of listing PHP 5.4 features to colleagues and having to demonstrate them?

Mark O'neill05/10/12
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Pure vs Practical REST

This is a useful table found by Mark O'neill that you may find yourself going back to often, comparing pure REST (such as HATEOAS) with the "practical" REST so often found in the field:

Stoimen Popov05/09/12
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Algorithm of the Week: Determine if a Number is Prime

Stoimen Popov is back with another episode in his Algorithm of the Week series, and this week he tackles prime numbers. Stoimen begins with a very basic (brute force) approach, and then refines his algorithm to be far more effective, though it still works best for smaller numbers.

Patrick Debois05/08/12
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Monitoring Over 10K URLs in Nagios

The first in a news series of blog posts by DevOps godfather, Patrick DuBois, will look at the integration and options within Nagios with reference to his infrastructure at Atlassian, where they must monitor about 10,000 websites.

Giorgio Sironi05/07/12
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What is global state?

Globale state: it's everywhere, but its mutability is the real danger.

Joe Miller05/04/12
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Parallel Provisioning For Speeding up Vagrant

Joe Miller needed a simple mechanism to build native packages on the relevant platforms, ie: .deb's on debian and .rpm on redhat/centos. He ended up using a combination of Vagrant and some homegrown tools such as Bunchr.

Mitch Pronschinske05/04/12
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Video Walkthrough: Connecting Solr and Acquia Drupal Search

Continuing where the last screencast left off, this third tutorial shows how to install the Acquia Connector (Acquia is an enterprise Drupal SaaS), and then...

Mitch Pronschinske05/03/12
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Video Walkthrough: Faceted Search with Solr on Drupal 7

Picking up where part 1 left off, this screencast continues Nick Veenhof's screencast tutorial about setting up Solr on Drupal and running various features. ...

Geoffrey Papilion05/03/12
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Redunancy Planning - A Guide to What's Right for You

The general best practice is to add an additional element for each service tier, also know as N+1 redundancy. This approach is straight forward, but many people would actually be surprised by how often these schemes fail.

Brian Kelly05/02/12
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5 Signs You Should Hire a Programmer on the Spot

When a programmer nails the interview and test the hiring manager is still inclined to say "we'll be in touch" but that's just not always the best idea...

Mitch Pronschinske05/02/12
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Video Walkthrough: Installing Solr on Drupal 7

In this video you will see exactly how to install the Solr-Drupal module and start a Solr server. This video deals with installation on Drupal 7. The next...

Mark O'neill05/01/12
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Pro Tip: Find Out How Long a Web Service Call Takes

Here are some additional ways you can measure the time a Gateway takes to call a Web Service and the duration of running a Web Service filter.

Josh Adell04/26/12
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Decode JSON in Bash with PHP

I recently found myself needing to make cUrl calls from the command-line to an endpoint which returned JSON responses. Rather than parsing through the JSON as a string, or downloading some third party tool to format it for me, I created this handy Bash alias that decodes JSON from the command-line using PHP.