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Your Favorite Programming Language Sucks
May I present for your consideration my handy "Your Favorite Programming Language Sucks" form. Do you know a heathen that insists on developing in Java? A hipster that can't stop ranting about Ruby? A...
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Don’t Panic! It’s only the Internet running out of Addresses
The various Internet management groups made it official this morning. We’re now out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet address blocks. The final five blocks of IPv4 addresses were given out...
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Importance of Designing Good URL Structure
Designing proper URL structure is often overlooked by web application developers. This article explains reasons why you should take some time thinking about your URLs.
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A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
It’s been a while since we’ve done something arbitrary, complicated, and confusing, so today I’m happy to announce that the name of the company has been changed, effective immediately, to Stack...
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Trinity is Microsoft Research’s Hypergraph Database
Microsoft Research has begun working on its own graph database, Trinity. It is a distributed hypergraph, which means that it can connect an unlimited number of nodes.
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Texas jury finds against Google in Linux patent case, determines damage award...
This patent infringement case has major implications for the IT industry in general and for Linux in particular The industry-wide importance of this case is underlined by the fact that Red Hat...
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Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption
Now that we have fully restored functionality to all affected services, we would like to share more details with our customers about the events that occurred with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud...
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Is ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN NOT NULL to NULL always expensive?
Introduction In the past week this topic came up in 3 different occasions and it seems there is lot of confusion around this topic. In this post I will try to delve into some details and a demo to show...
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The science of password selection
Revealing behavioral tendencies by user password selection e.g. frequency distribution on use of site name for a site-specific password, incidence of symbols used in passwords and more, accompanied by...
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Hot off the press: The Parallel Universe magazine - Issue 8 (.pdf)
The Parallel Universe magazine is a quarterly publication devoted to exploring inroads and innovations in the field of software development, from high-performance computing to threading serial...
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Smeed's Law for Programming
Smeed’s law is an empirical relationship that predicts the number of deaths in traffic accidents in a country, normalized to the number of vehicles in it. There are two astounding things about this...
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Hot off the press: The Parallel Universe magazine - Issue 8 (.pdf).
The Parallel Universe magazine is a quarterly publication devoted to exploring inroads and innovations in the field of software development, from high-performance computing to threading serial...
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Hot off the press: The Parallel Universe magazine - Issue 8 [PDF]
The Parallel Universe magazine is a quarterly publication devoted to exploring inroads and innovations in the field of software development, from high-performance computing to threading serial...
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10+ .htaccess snippets to optimize your website
Apache .htaccess file is at the heart of your web server and control how your website will react to different actions performed by your visitors. I’ve compiled 10+ awesome .htaccess snippets to...
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Writing an OAuth Provider in PHP
An article offering a step-by-step overview of writing an OAuth Provider in PHP. Through the article not only, examples are given, but the protocol is explained as well.
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