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What Would You Like to See on Your DZone Profile?

You know you’re awesome, but does everyone else? Sure, you’ve probably posted some useful links and maybe even written some most excellent articles, but...

0 replies - 3604 views - 07/19/12 by Kelly Reiser in Articles

The Growing Role of Developers in Tomorrow's Cloudy World

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator...

0 replies - 4041 views - 07/19/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

8 Useful Assumptions About Cloud Security

The following article was originally written by Ming Lee over at the blog, A Cloudy Place. In this article I’m going to highlight eight common-sense...

0 replies - 3316 views - 07/18/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles

Confessions of a Meego Fanboy

Much has been written about the emerging Post-PC era, about the new possibilities it brings, and the limitations it imposes on developer creativity. For...

0 replies - 4486 views - 07/16/12 by Henri Bergius in Articles

Hadoop: My Experience with Cloudera and MapR

A few months back we started to endeavor on a new Hadoop cluster @ medialets We have been live with Hadoop in production since April 2010 and we are still...

0 replies - 7989 views - 07/11/12 by Joe Stein in Articles

In Search of Cloud Architecture

Does Platform as a Service (PaaS) exhibit a distinct architecture model?  What specific architectural components are required? After reviewing architecture...

0 replies - 1826 views - 07/11/12 by Chris Haddad in Articles

On Cloudy Models: Azure Web Sites vs. Cloud Apps

We have several new ways for you to run your applications in the cloud, and developers want a little guidance on how to pick which options. I hope...

0 replies - 3009 views - 07/08/12 by Brian Pince in Articles

My Thoughts on Google Compute Engine

Ben Kepes reflects on his recent experience at GoogleIO, where Google announced the limited release of its IaaS, Google Compute Engine. At GoogleIO today,...

0 replies - 3663 views - 07/06/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Current Challenges of Moving Apps to the Cloud, and How to Anticpate Them

In my last post, I discussed some of the key considerations when moving an application to the cloud. To provide a better understanding, I’m using a...

0 replies - 2885 views - 07/05/12 by Wely Lau in Articles

Frontend is a Separate Application

Despite my experience with working on desktop applications, I've been avoiding any frontend (here meaning JavaScript/html) for years. It wasn't because I...

1 replies - 3413 views - 07/05/12 by Andrzej Krzywda in Articles

How PaaS Brings Freedom to Developers

The Cloudcast (.net) #44 - Bringing Freedom to Developers thru PaaS (27:34) Date: June 25, 2012 By:...

0 replies - 1254 views - 07/04/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

Conversion Optimization with Social Marketing / Media Analytics

Brooks Brothers is investing in tools & testing to improve the online experience – and ↑sales. In a test involving one product category page:...

0 replies - 3438 views - 06/29/12 by Ravi Kalakota in Articles

7 Tutorials on Big Data in the Cloud

My Big Data in the Cloud article for Visual Studio Magazine’s July 2012 issue asserts “Microsoft has cooked up a feast of value-added big data cloud...

3 replies - 6658 views - 06/29/12 by Roger Jennings in Articles

PHP Standards Working Group

I know this topic has been written about a lot. But I think it's so important that I wanted to continue to echo it out and continue promoting it....

0 replies - 906 views - 06/29/12 by Luis Atencio in Articles

Is Copy and Paste Programming Really a Problem?

Copy and Paste Programming – taking a copy of existing code in your project and repurposing it – violates coding best practices like Don’t Repeat...

4 replies - 11365 views - 06/28/12 by Jim Bird in Articles