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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • Long November: Google Left December Out Of Its Date Picker In Android Jelly Bean OS 4.2

    My Galaxy Nexus just got updated to Jelly Bean 4.2, and now this: December missing in date picker!

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  • What Programmers Want

    Following up on A Players – if you do happen to have some of them, here’s how to treat them: What Programmers Want. And why it’s all going to be better soon anyway: The end of management.

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  • On package management: Negating the downsides of bundling

    Ah the joys of packaging and distribution. And: isn’t (1) already part of Windows, at least since Windows 3.1? My proposal is to provide bundled applications but not statically linked, rather a directory containing the app and its dependencies, coupled with two things: (1) use of a linker and loader that prefer the bundled copy while…

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  • A Players

    A series of articles about A players in IT. I guess in Enterprise IT, we can be glad if we see B players at least from remote 😉 We all talk about recruiting “A Players,” but that’s not how the Valley actually works. Why Zuckerberg was Right. The Coming Collapse of Average.

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  • Why Apple and HTC settled their patent litigation

    Thoughtful commentary about why Apple and HTC settled their patent litigation: Sometimes it’s easier to just pay the money And: Both companies benefit from HTC’s ability to use Apple’s patented elements like slide-to-unlock, universal search, bounce scrolling, and scroll locking. HTC gets to make better products, and Apple allows one of Samsung’s only real challengers…

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  • Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption Kickstarter

    You bet I signed up for Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption by the Quest for Glory designers: turn-based role-playing, adventure puzzle game for PC that […] will fill a niche left by modern day shooters and action games via Quest for Glory developers bring back old school adventures with Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption.

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  • Rackspace versus Amazon

    There’s a place for different business strategies also in the cloud services space. Derrick Harris explains how Rackspace is positioning itself as all about Service and Open Ecosystem (no lock-in), whereas Amazon is all about Ultimate Scalability using a Proprietary Stack. Rackspace is busy building a Hadoop service, giving the company one more avenue to…

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  • TED: Smart failure for a fast-changing world

    The world is changing faster than we’re learning… therefore we have to accept (smart) failure as the new modus operandi, according to Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world.

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  • CPU, PSU, SPU – Oracle Critical Patch Update Terminology Update

    It’s never too late to change important terminology and confuse customers, that’s what Oracle must’ve been thinking… Security Patch Update (SPU) terminology is introduced in the October 2012 Critical Patch Update as the term for the quarterly security patch.  SPU patches are the same as previous CPU patches, just a new name.  For the database,…

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  • Platfora shows a whole new way to do business intelligence on big data

    Platfora sounds like the obvious BI and UI engine to power something like Claspin for those who don’t have the luxury of developing something like Claspin from scratch… Based on what I saw in a demonstration, Platfora’s HTML5 canvas rendering makes the process as visually rich as it is fast in terms of processing speed.…

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