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Mitch Pronschinske11/30/11
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Windows Phone Seeing Better Ad Revenue than iOS and Android

I commonly hear the argument: "Android phones are more popular (greater market share), but iPhone users actually buy stuff."  Well, where does that leave Windows Phone.  I don't know about app sales and e-commerce, but Smaato, a mobile ad...

Mitch Pronschinske11/30/11
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WP7 Simulator for Android and iOS: An Interesting Tactic

What if you could demo the Metro UI from Windows Phone 7 on your Android or iPhone?  No we're not talking about a sophisticated hack or jailbreak, we're talking about something that the average Joe could use.Well that demo is here today, and it works through...

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...

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 Pronschinske11/28/11
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Basic Mistakes in Database Testing

There is a huge number of books about TDD. Those books usually concentrate on using test for units of work. Units of work are understood in many different ways, usually it means a class. So the books say: write a lot of tests, make code in such a way the...

Mitch Pronschinske11/26/11
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Dev+Ops+Org - How we are including (almost) everyone

Abstract John Clapham and Paul Swartout: The presentation will give an insight into how the whole of Nokia Entertainment has embraced DevOps: The Journey: Start-up mentality to Corporate and back again A short history on how Nokia Entertainment came to be...

Mitch Pronschinske11/25/11
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Everything I learned about CI , I learned from System Administration

Abstract Julian Simpson: Before I donned my secret identity as The Build Doctor, I was a average Solaris administrator (okay, I spent too much time playing with log analysis and too little doing storage, but them's the breaks). After discovering the joys...

Mitch Pronschinske11/24/11
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A Case Study in Operations and Development Integration at Spotify

Abstract Mattias Jansson, Noa Resare: We have lots of material to draw from talking about how we work with integration between operations and software development. This talk will be around a narrative about how we have grown as a company and how our...

Mitch Pronschinske11/23/11
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DevOps is not an absolute. It's a range

Abstract by Mitchell Hashimoto: Many still consider and talk about DevOps as an absolute thing: developers and operations are the same thing. Of course, this is not the case. DevOps is a range, where on the far left we have old-style ops (very exclusive)...

Mitch Pronschinske11/22/11
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Hiring and embedding new team members at Hyves

The leaders at Hyves stumbled into DevOps by accident five years ago, when nobody (including them) was aware that it was actually a cultural movement. They've been practicing with trial and error on how to go about this DevOps thing ever since... How do...

Mitch Pronschinske11/22/11
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Windows Phone 7 XNA Game Tutorial Ep 2 - Drawing & Physics Pt. 1

In this second tutorial video about how to create a Windows Phone 7 game, I start the basics of our game MangoLander - the example project we are using to...

Mitch Pronschinske11/21/11
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DevOps State of the Union

John "Botchagalupe" Willis knows how to give a lively and humorous presentation.  He starts this one off saying it's going to be all about PUPPET VS CHEF!  And then he says 'oh, wrong slides'.  And he continues to give a great talk (video and...