Social Sentiment Plugin Analyzes Twitter, Facebook in Real Time

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Have you ever wanted to analyze the sentiment of your Twitter or Facebook content without having to employe some clunky, expensive application or widget? Look no further than ViralHeat’s new plugin for Chrome.

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Pentaho tutorial

Working on the Entando/Pentaho integration I found this  etl-tools tutorials pages with a  lot of  real-life examples

InfoQ: Test automation and Continuous Delivery

InfoQ: Test automation and Continuous Delivery:
Software testing and verification needs a careful and diligent process of impersonating an end user, trying various usages and input scenarios, comparing and asserting expected behaviors. Directly, the words "careful and diligent" invoke the idea of letting a computer program do the job. Automating certain programmable aspects of your test suite thus can help software delivery massively...

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Observer pattern

The essence of the Observer Pattern is to "Define a one-to-many dependency between objects so that when one object changes state, all its dependents are notified and updated automatically." GoF. Observer pattern is a subset of publish/subscribe pattern which allows a number of observer objects to see an event.

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How REST replaced SOAP on the Web: What it means to you

Its been slowly creeping up on us, creating exciting new possibilities for our applications; APIs are changing the face of the Web. Since 2005 Programmable Web have been tracking SOAP and REST APIs available to the public.  In 2005 they tracked 105 APIs, the prominent ones being from Amazon, Google, SalesForce and eBay... 
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