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I came across this issue a couple years ago. It was surprisingly not-so-obvious to the developer, a good developer, who was sorting out a very elusive bug in a large Java application.

The symptom was that a Map of objects sometimes returned null when queried. The developer ran the code in a debugger and could see that the object was put into the Map. Yet, when the map was asked to retrieve the object, it was not found (even though it could be seen by inspection in the debugger).

Other objects were successfully stored and retrieved from the same Map.

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Summa CEO Audrey Dunning will share insight to the future of Cloud Computing as a panelist along with representatives from Amazon, Salesforce.com and IBM at a TiE Pittsburgh event to be held at CMU on Wednesday, Jan 27. More information here: here and registration with TiE Pittsburgh here

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You might have noticed how hard it is to obtain your own health care history. Most medical records are written on paper. This is changing, but slowly. Even forward-looking doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies who are converting to electronic records have a hard time integrating with each other, since each IT system is largely independent of other systems. What you, the patient, would like to see is all of your history together in one place, regardless of who the provider was or where the care was given.

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Applications for mobile platform are increasingly becoming an important market sector for all kinds of service providers. With the growing popularity of the iPhone and Apple’s well designed SDK, there are plenty of iPhone development project offerings even in this slow economic scenario. At Summa, we recently had a great experience developing a sleek iPhone application with a large user base. The purpose of this blog is to put together conceptual information along with project experiences around the important aspects of Objective-C’s memory management that would be helpful as one begins to delve deep into iPhone development.

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I have worked on a few large Flex applications, and almost everything about the platform delights me — it is quick to prototype, powerful in creating rich UIs. But it often frustrates me how difficult it is to handle run-time errors. There are posts, discussions and threads around tackling this issue. I have put together some of those ideas into a solution that I like, and wanted to share it.

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