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Mitch Pronschinske12/19/11
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Fixing the Flying Plane: A Production DevOps Team

At Scholastic, Inc., the Web Hosting Department practices DevOps in action, leveraging both their development abilities and their sysadmin skills to...

Mitch Pronschinske12/17/11
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Architecting for the Cloud: AWS Cloud Formation and Puppet

The cloud reinforces some old concepts of building highly scalable architectures and introduces some new concepts that entirely change the way applications...

Mitch Pronschinske12/15/11
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Super Helpful Visualizations for Infrastructure as Code (DevOps)

Today DevOps-coiner Patrick Dubois tweeted: "wow - @guttertec visualized my ideas so much better".  The link in that tweet was to a slideshare stack posted by Alex Quack which I will now share with you so that you too can go "wow - very...

Mitch Pronschinske12/13/11
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New Resources for Running Solr on an Azure Cloud

I just found a great new project on GitHub that's going to help a lot of Solr and Lucene projects deploy to a cloud infrastructure today.  It's a showcase on how to configure and host Solr and Lucene on Windows Azure:

Mitch Pronschinske12/10/11
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MPNS module for Node.js - Windows Phone Push Notifications

Push notifications (toasts, live tiles, etc.) for the cloud are a big feature if you can have it in your app.  If you're familiar with this powerful little technology called Node.js you'll be happy to know that Windows Phone Lead Developer Jeff Wilcox has...

Mitch Pronschinske12/07/11
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Neo4j Labs: Heroku, Neo4j and Google Spreadsheet in 10min. Flat.

Hi all, Last Friday, we were all labbing again - the best day of the week. I didn't have much time so I decided to try to produce a screencast that would measure the time required to go from nothing to flash using some of our tools.

Mitch Pronschinske12/07/11
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MongoDB On Windows Azure

A new preview release of the MongoDB controller for Azure is available. This release includes support for replica sets, and over the coming months, we’ll be adding support for MongoDB’s sharding facilities. We’ll also be working to more tightly...

Mitch Pronschinske12/07/11
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Strategies for Web App Notifications on the Desktop

URL:  http://css.dzone.com/articles/users-keep-coming-back-desktop Large Thumbnail:  notifications pinned.png

Mitch Pronschinske12/04/11
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HA Puppetmaster At (Mt) Media Temple

Sharif Nassar: In this talk I will cover the design and setup of a high availability puppetmaster setup both for redundancy and scaling.See our HA puppetmaster...

Mitch Pronschinske12/03/11
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DevOps & IBM

The practices and technologies of DevOps have begun to spread into what I'd call "the mainstream," which is fantastic: DevOps has a lot to offer ...

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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Sysadmin Pay Type Survey Results

I promised an update with the information that I received from my survey of pay types, and here it is.This post was originally authored by Matt Simmons, the Standalone Sysadmin Over the past several days, I received 567 responses from people, both in the...

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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Making a VS Achievements App for Windows Phone

URL:  http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/visual-studio-achievements Large Thumbnail:  achivements.jpg

Mitch Pronschinske11/29/11
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WP Mango Series pt. 26: Background File Transfer

URL:  http://mobile.dzone.com/articles/days-mango-day-26-background?mz=27249-windowsphone7 Large Thumbnail:  mango.jpg

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...