Articles tagged with Distributed

Cutting I.T. Costs – And We Do That How? - Phurnace Software - With already limited staff and expectations on IT going up - how do you continue to cut costs? Automate.
InfoQ: Presentation: Reaching Hyper-Productivity with Outsourced Development Teams - "In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, CTO of Xebia, present an actual case of reaching hyper-productivity with a large distributed team using XP and Scrum."
The Evolution of Ideas and the Role of the SAP Ecosystem - SAP submits proposal to join Apache Software Foundation to increase its innovation beyond its own community.
Ned Batchelder: Deleting code - "There's plenty of information out there about how to write code. Here's some advice on how to delete code. "

Fraser Speirs – A Subversion User Looks at Git - "Git’s rethink of the entire content management problem enables some powerful new capabilities."
How To Do What You Love Without Selling Your Soul | Zen Habits - "What I’ve come to realize, is by focusing on providing value to others, most of the marketing aspect takes care of itself. "
svk, we're done; hello git-svn. | boodebr.org - "OK, I give up. I tried my best to work things out with svk, but it wasn't meant to be. I could have saved myself a lot of pain had I listened to other's experiences, but I wanted to give svk a fair shot. Having done that, I'm happy to say I'm a git-svn user now."
What's new with Apache Solr - "Taking advantage of Solr 1.3's new features and improvements"
Author Michael Crichton Has 'Died Unexpectedly' - "Prolific novelist and "ER" creator Michael Crichton has passed away. He was 66."

Phalanger - The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework - Home - Title says it all.
DVCS Why and How - Very good write-up explaining DVCS technology and why it is valuable.
Intro to Distributed Version Control (Illustrated) | BetterExplained - "Traditional version control helps you backup, track and synchronize files. Distributed version control makes it easy to share changes. Done right, you can get the best of both worlds: simple merging and centralized releases."

Zend Studio for Eclipse - No file extension as PHP - Good example of the use of Twitter for technical support of a product. Way to go Zend!
Balsamiq Studios, makers of plugins for Web Office applications | Balsamiq - "Create software mockups in minutes, iterate over them with your team, then embed them in your specs!"
Ontic Oren » Living the ultimate online agile workflow - "Over at my job, we’re just two weeks away from our first release! I thought this would be a great time to look back a little at our tools and process."
Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Multi-tasking vs. Flow - "It’s an ongoing battle of epic proportions taking place in every office of every company in the world – completing tasks efficiently by multi-tasking or effectively by staying “in-the-flow.”"
Distributed source control options - Stack Overflow - Stack Overflow.com has a conversation on Distributed Version Control Tools that I found interesting.
Optimize Your Web Connection - Wired How-To Wiki - "Your broadband connection screams compared with the dial-up days of yore, but it could be faster. These days, your internet connection can't be fast enough. That is why we're here — to show you the way to a faster internet connection by tweaking the hardware and software you're using. "

Kirix Strata: Software for Business Analysts - "Kirix Strata is a specialty browser for working with data and the web. Strata gives you the ability to connect to the vast resources on the web as well as your local data, and provides a rich environment for interacting with layers of information on many levels. "
Hadoop Map/Reduce Tutorial - "This document comprehensively describes all user-facing facets of the Hadoop Map/Reduce framework and serves as a tutorial. "
Database People Hating on MapReduce | High Scalability - "ypical Programmer tackles the technical issues in Relational Database Experts Jump The MapReduce Shark. The culture clash is still what fascinates me."

The LEMON Parser Generator - "The Lemon program is an LALR(1) parser generator. It takes a context free grammar and converts it into a subroutine that will parse a file using that grammar."
Git merging by example - An article giving a real life example of a git merge.
Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists [LWN.net] - Linus Torvalds answers questions on Git to a member of the KDE team. Very interesting read.
Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder - ZDNet.co.uk - "I don't think a 'perfect' process exists," wrote Torvalds. "Of course, some people will be alienated, and there's no doubt that the process could probably be improved."

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