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Not much in terms of the open source community, but Oracle forums have some good support for this. Plus, the documentation that comes with the product is pretty decent, and a lot o…

Have you looked at Oracle Coherence? It's pretty light weight and has clustering features as well.

Here's a thought - why not make the speaker selection process double blind, like medical trials. Whoever is reviewing submissions, should not have access to the authors' info. Thou…

We go the VM route as well. We have a base VM with all the applications and development tools installed, and clone it for each new developer that we on-board. We have an internal H…

I'd take the iFixit recommendation with a sack of salt. Their business model relies on being able to sell components and tools that can open up laptops. With the new Retina MBP, th…

I've been using an OCZ Vertex 2 for a couple of years and it works like a charm ... I got it from Newegg, but if you have a Microcenter, they may price match ...

Some how this is weird to me... isn't replication keeping a copy of your files somewhere else? And isn't that the very definition of "backup" ??

It depends on what your contract says... I work for a firm that clearly states that whatever you do, if it involves their equipment, resources, or time, or knowledge gained while w…

One big distinguishing factor between success and failure can be - who does the requirements? Allowing the same company who is going to code, to get the requirements part done is a…

In some cases, especially if you have a good plan, you can get a very decent product out of the project, but changing requirements (especially with today's agile environments), are…

As someone who managed off-shore projects, I think this model can be made to work only if the coding part is offshore. The design part would have to be done on-shore in a majority …

Personally, I've learned a lot by attending user groups and conferences. There is no substitute for hands-on learning but interacting with people who have the skills that you're lo…

http://textmate2.com ?

I've been using the TripleFi 10vi from Ultimate Ears ( http://is.gd/cpZjf ) and they're superb... currently they're priced around $200 but Amazon seems to have deals where they hal…