In our development work we strive to use tools which increase our efficiency and the ease of code maintenance. This was one of the reasons for adding Ruby plus the Rails framework to our toolkit last year. Since then we … >>>
When developing an OpenSocial gadget, we may need to communicate with a background application from our api. The platform provides great methods for this, making the whole process feel like developing a well-supported AJAX-intensive web application. Due to the flexibility … >>>
The mission is storing extremely large quantities of data – 30G records in our case. The sunny side is, data tend to be separable along certain principles. In such cases, sharding – also known as horizontal partitioning – may be … >>>
Sun’s request to give a presentation about MySQL at a BI conference came as a surprise at first. If only because the use of MySQL is not particularly widespread in BI and DW. A quick check with the coordinator by … >>>
"Leaping Frog The ugly little spring action froggy, made of lousy plastic, used to be the ultimate lowbrow toy. Still we managed to have a hell of a good time with it. It was a consumable item as it reliably fell to pieces pretty soon. Had a specimen fail to fall apart, we took it apart ourselves. 'Cos we needed the spring for something else."
Source: Borsa.hu© 2011 Virgo Systems Kft.