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Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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Remote Site Editing and Local Syncing with WebMatrix 2

Check out the best new features of WebMatrix 2 Beta. URL: http://css.dzone.com/articles/staying-date-remote-site?mz=30309-phpwindows Large Thumbnail: ...

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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How HuffPost Increased Engagement by 14%

HuffPost created an immersive, app-like web experience with new Pinned Site features URL: http://css.dzone.com/articles/case-study-huffington-post?mz=46483-html5 Large...

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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Puppet Labs Gets $8.5M to Achieve DevOps Dominance

Today Puppet Labs revealed that it has received $8.5 million from Google Ventures, VMware, and Cisco—three companies that are dominating various facets of the tech industry. With the unprecedented injection of $8.5M in Series C funding, Puppet Labs now...

Mitch Pronschinske11/27/11
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Scaling SQL and NoSQL Databases in the Cloud

Scaling an application in the cloud often hits the most common bottleneck – the database tier. Not only is database performance the number one cause of poor application performance, but also the issue is magnified in cloud environments where I/O and...

Mitch Pronschinske11/18/11
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Simplification is Key in the Cloud

IBM recently released its second-quarter earnings report, citing impressive gains (Q2 revenues rose 12 percent to $26.7B). While the hardware side of IBM’s business is undoubtedly important, it’s the company’s ability to pivot to emerging market...

Mitch Pronschinske11/17/11
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Stick a MongoDB on that OpenShift Cloud

Now that the latest release of OpenShift Flex has a much simpler method for running a NoSQL server, we're going to look at a tutorial by Mark Atwood that takes you through the simplified process of setting up MongoDB on OpenShift Flex.OpenShift Flex is a...

Mitch Pronschinske11/17/11
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ScrumWorks Pro Now Available as a Cloud Instance

Want to see what a full-fledged agile-oriented project managment tool is like? Well, ScrumWorks Pro now requires virtually no upfront cost (in time or money) to run immediately on a cloud instance. That's because CollabNet just released the tool suite as...

Mitch Pronschinske11/17/11
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Community NuGet Packages Hasten Windows Phone + Azure App Development

Wade Wegner, the lead technical evangelist for Windows Azure, has been working with the community on some sweet NuGet packages for both Windows Phone and Windows Azure, and when they're used in tandem to develop, for example, an Azure push notifications...

Mitch Pronschinske11/17/11
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Amazon Reveals Cluster Compute Instance Type

A new CC2 instance was unveiled by Amazon Web Services this week. In addition to their previously released Cluster GPU instances, AWS will begin selling another type under their Cluster Compute category called Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (CC2 for...

Mitch Pronschinske11/16/11
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Java PaaS OpenShift Gets Hudson/Jenkins Environments

A new release of RedHat's Java PaaS, OpenShift, just became available this week with a bunch of worthwhile new features. The most prominent new feature is built-in workflow support for Hudson or Jenkins. This will give cloud-based developers access to a...

Mitch Pronschinske11/15/11
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NoSQL Zone - The Sequel to SQL

Isn't it about time you had a place where you could go to get fresh news and articles focused solely on NoSQL technology everyday?Other sites may cover just one facet, or write one post every 3 weeks, but DZone's new NoSQL Zone has its hand on the pulse of...

Mitch Pronschinske11/15/11
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ESX Plugin for Chef's Knife Tool

A major need has been filled in the last few weeks with the release of an unofficial, community-built VMware ESX(i) plugin for Opscode Knife. Knife in an open source command-line tool that comes with Chef and is used to access its server API and...

Mitch Pronschinske11/14/11
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WAR Deployment for JVM Lanugages on CloudBees

CloudBees thinks of itself as a Cargo project for Java PaaS. It has one way in which you can deploy Java web applications - WAR files. There's a quick list on their blog for how to deploy WARs for each JVM language on CloudBees:For Groovy/Grails there is...

Mitch Pronschinske11/13/11
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Discovering Facebook Systems and Practices - Operating At Scale

With over 750 million active users worldwide, half of whom log in daily, Facebook is now the #1 most popular website. The infrastructure that powers...

Mitch Pronschinske11/13/11
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Enabling Elastic Virtual DataCenters in vCloud Director - a Simple Configuration

Elastic Virtual Data Centers are a pretty useful feature in vCloud, and Dave Hill recently wrote a quick how-to for users who want to get up and running without reading a lot of documentation. Apparently he couldn't find this simple configuration anywhere: