- Martin Fowler's Bliki: FeatureBranch
Martin Fowler on feature branching, problems, solutions, more problems, and alternatives. (programming agile continuous_integration version_control )
- Insect Arts Festival « Pestival 2009
Someone's spotted a very obvious gap in the market: "Celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect, Pestival 2009 runs from 3rd-6th September and is jam-packed with insect-inspired talks and debates, as well as comedy, music, walks, workshops, installations and experiments." (london insects festival )
- InfoQ: Project Coin Announces Final List of Small Language Changes
Language changes in Java 7, finally decided — there are seven of them. (java )
- Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
"At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867." This is how they do it… (storage hardware backup )
- Do Not Hire This Guy | FlowingData
The FlowingData blog exposes a plagiarising designer. "David Paterni, a "user experience designer" in Boston, chose the wrong people to rip off. If Paterni's work in data visualization looks familiar, it's because none of them are his, and all of them were featured on this blog." The comments show the depth of feeling. (design visualisation plagiarism )
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