Articles by Dice Staff

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  How to Approach Authentication on Rails

  Ruby on Rails went open source in late 2004, and open to commit changes in 2005. Since then, some solutions appeared to solve common problems like authentication, a common requirement in Web appl…
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  Siemens Wind Turbine Is Almost Too Big to be Believed

  Siemens has released a series of images to show off its new B75 wind turbine rotor blades, and you really need to see them if you want to believe how big is big, at least when it comes to wind tu…
• Braintree Hiring 150 Engineering, IT Staff in Chicago

  Internet payment gateway Braintree plans to triple its staff in the next couple of years, which translates into about 150 jobs for engineers and others. Its new downtown Chicago headquarters can…
• Google, Apple Plan Data Center Expansions

  Google’s expansion in its data-center operations includes some new infrastructure in Europe. Google acknowledged spending $177 million (150 million Euro) to double the capacity of a data center i…
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  3 Cool Beginner Linux Distros

  If you're looking for that perfect beginner version of Linux, look no further. The three distributions outlined here are intuitive, mature and functional. Use your favorite disk creator software…
• Big Data Makes Things Better

  Big Data is everywhere. As Bit.ly's chief scientist Hilary Mason likes to say: “Big Data usually refers to a dataset that is too big to fit into your available memory, or too big to store on your…
• The Rise of the Programmable Data Center

  Almost every process associated with the data center these days is either a manual one, or else reliant on some sort of undocumented script that doesn’t scale particularly well. That drives up th…
• Six Outsourcing Stories to Challenge Your Opinion

  Our story about Harley-Davidson's decision to outsource a number of IT jobs to Infosys has generated quite a discussion, as evidenced by the comments people have added to it. The story represents…
• Lenovo, EMC Pair Servers, Storage

  Lenovo and EMC announced a partnership Aug. 2 that will include a server technology development program and a joint venture based on EMC's Iomega business. The two companies characterized the par…
• How Bad Is Your Password?

  Every cloud has a silver lining, and every password breach offers an opportunity to see how good (or bad) our passwords really are. Over the past several months, there have been a number of major…