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Introduction to Hadoop: Real-World Hadoop Clusters and Applications
The Hadoop ecosystem relies on composability — the ability to use output from one tool as input to the next — to efficiently process data at scale, from simple projects, to processing streams of real-time data, to building data warehouses.
Hadoop: Writing and Running Your First Project
MapReduce on small datasets can be run easily and without much coding or fiddling — provided you know what to do. Here's how.
Acquiring Big Data Using Apache Flume
Data analysis is only half the battle; getting the data into a Hadoop cluster is the first step in any Big Data deployment. Apache Flume uses an elegant design to make data loading easy and efficient.
Hadoop Tutorial Series
Why I Use Perl...and Will Continue to Do So
Despite Perl's steady decline in usage, its users continue their romance with the language's features.
Open Source News
Building Apps With CDK In Cloudera Apache Hadoop
Cloudera Developer Kit includes APIs, tools, and documentation
New Age Developer Collaboration Tools From Workshare
Open API to workflow tool with file sharing and sync features
Indirect Dependencies Are Killing Open Source Licenses
A total of 91% of software projects contain indirect open source dependencies
Sharpened Forking Inside Git
Atlassian Stash 2.4 encourages and facilitates forking for open source coders using Git
Mozilla and Otoy Announce ORBX.js JavaScript Library
HTML5 library enables native Windows apps to run in any browser
Nuxeo Synchronization Client For Content Management Apps
Open source client-based on RESTful APIs for build custom content sharing applications
Open Source Usage Up As Controls and Processes Fail
Sonatype Open Source Development Survey suggests failings at developmental management level
World's First 'Language-Aware' Source Code Merge Tool
Codice's Semantic Merge is a programming three-way merge tool with semantic support
Xen And The Art Of Hypervisor Maintenance
Citrix and community collaborators usher in new era for Open Source Xen
LiveCode Free Drag-and-Drop Programming For Anyone
RunRev LiveCode 6.0 released to open source
Events of Interest
May 28-31. Boston, MA. AnDevCon Android Developer Conference
May 28-30. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference
June 4-5, Santa Clara, CA. JAXConf 2013 (free)
June 10-14. New York, NY. QCon
June 12. Chicago, IL. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference: for Developers, by Developers
June 13-14. Santa Clara, CA. Gradle Summit 2013
June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference
June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 26-27. San Francisco, CA. Build 2013
July 22-26. Portland, OR. O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013
July 29-31, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. JVM Language Summit
August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)
September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013
October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
Videos of Past Events
March 2013. GPU Technology Conference
September 2012. Strangeloop
September 2012. Intel Developer Forum
August 2012. VMWorld
July 2012. Java Language Summit
June 2012. Google I/O 2012
May 2012. Atlassian Summit
May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference
March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
Best of the Web
First C Compiler Now on Github
The earliest known C compiler by the legendary Dennis Ritchie has been published on the repository.
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
Building Bare Metal ARM Systems with GNU
All you need to know to get up and running... and programming on ARM
Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev
Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.
How to Select a PaaS Partner
Eventually, the vast majority of Web applications will run on a platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, vendor's infrastructure. To help sort out the options, we sent out a matrix with more than 70 decision points to a variety of PaaS providers.
