Software Development
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It’s not NoSQL versus RDBMS, it’s ACID + foreign keys versus eventual consistency
The Background Coming from a diverse background and having dealt with a number of distributed systems, I routinely find myself…
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Functional Reactive Programming and JavaScript
Functional reactive programming (FRP) is an emerging programming paradigm that has recently gained popularity in the web world. That popularity…
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Test Attribute #9 – Deterministic
I keep hammering on trust and how it’s crucial that we trust our tests. If a test is deterministic, it…
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Webinar : Enabling a More Natural Future For Your Application User Interfaces
Intel launches this year again the developer challenge around perceptual computing, in which developers from around the world can participate…
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Try optimising the memory consumption first
Overview You would think that if you wanted your application to go faster you would start with the CPU profiling.…
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Books That Have Most Influenced My Software Development Career
I have read numerous books on software development and have learned valuable things from most of them, but a small…
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Strategies to migrate from an DAO library
In this post I will discuss several strategies to handle the following situation: You’re working on a legacy project that uses a…
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SQL Tip of the Day: Be Wary of SELECT COUNT(*)
Recently, I’ve encountered this sort of query all over the place at a customer site: …
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Are You Using SQL PIVOT Yet? You Should!
Every once in a while, we run into these rare SQL issues where we’d like to do something that seems…
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