Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

db4o - A Q&A with Refcard Co-Author Eric Falsken

In coordination with the recently published db4o Refcard, DZone had the opportunity to chat with its co-author, Eric Falsken, a technical evangelist on the...

5 replies - 2418 views - 05/14/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...

3 replies - 18950 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Oracle's Effect on Java

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...

20 replies - 21504 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

MySQL and PHP - State of Union by Hans Zaunere

Later on today, at CommunityOne East, New York PHP User Group Community Managing Member, Hans Zaunere, will be giving a session entitled MySQL and PHP - State...

0 replies - 3291 views - 03/18/09 by James Sugrue in Uncategorized

SQL Server Advisor: my blog

Expertise, advice, tool fro performance and all things interesting accumulated over the years to optimize Microsoft SQL Server and to make it -close to- zero /...

1 replies - 1676 views - 03/14/09 by SQLServerAdvisor in Tips and Tricks

Introduction to JOODAMP Framework for Bulk data processing

This article gives a brief introduction about JOODAMP (Java Pooled Data Multi Processor https://joodamp.dev.java.net ) framework which started from scratch....

6 replies - 5368 views - 02/20/09 by pradeep in Articles

Refcardz Topics: What Should We Cover? (Vote Now)

DZone needs your help!  We have a lot of Refcard topics on our plate and want to know how to prioritize the topic...

40 replies - 24641 views - 02/16/09 by WeiLing in Uncategorized

A Better MySQL Replication Heartbeat

If you’ve used MySQL replication you’ve probably discovered that slave machines can lag behind the master. Replication can also break completely, requiring...

4 replies - 6274 views - 02/05/09 by Derek Young in Articles

Open Source : How Do You Stay Up To Date?

I Love the concepts and beliefs behind Open Source. I use Open Source libraries, applications etc. all the time. One of the things I have always found a...

18 replies - 11182 views - 01/10/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

When To Use Hardware Upgrade Instead Of Software Optimization

One typical question which frequently pops up is whenever it is better to use hardware upgrade or optimize software more. I already wrote about it, for example...

1 replies - 2318 views - 12/08/08 by PeterZaitsev in News

Computing 95 Percentile In MySQL

When doing performance analyzes you often would want to see 95 percentile, 99 percentile and similar values. The "average" is the evil of performance...

0 replies - 2899 views - 12/03/08 by PeterZaitsev in News

Making Your MySQL Tables More Effecient By Using Correct Fieldtypes

One of the biggest mistakes of today's fledgling MySQL programmers is their field type definitions, also known as data type or column type. Many are too quick...

1 replies - 5269 views - 12/02/08 by Mike Bernat in News

SQL Server Scheduled Backups with NAnt

When installing and using production web applications, backup is always a must. I have written about SQL Server Backup before and this post would expend on...

0 replies - 3250 views - 11/07/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News

Polyglot Persistence

In late 2006 Neal Ford wrote about Polyglot Programming and predicted the wave of language choice we are now seeing in the industry to use the right language...

3 replies - 3693 views - 10/23/08 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

A Simple Clustered Task Distribution System

This article will introduce the basic concepts of JGroups and then implement a task distribution system (on top of JGroups), where tasks can be placed into the...

4 replies - 19358 views - 10/06/08 by Bela Ban in Articles