Category: Technology
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Has the transparent smartphone finally arrived?
Has the transparent smartphone finally arrived?: When will we see a transparent smartphone? It’s a question that’s been circulating for years, thanks to films like Minority Report and Iron Man 2, which sparked dreams of a diaphanous mobile future, and now, more than a decade later, it’s one that’s still without an answer. I would…
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Mobile App Security – Application Security’s “Where’s Waldo”
Mobile App Security – Application Security’s “Where’s Waldo”: Over the last several years, there has been a major evolution in how applications are being built with new underlying technologies, application architectures and data formats, but have application scanners evolved with them? These new technologies have grown at such a fast rate, we haven’t been able…
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NoSQL on MySQL 5.6: Stating the Obvious
NoSQL on MySQL: stating the obvious: Some of the NoSQL vendors seemed to have stirred up a mild controversy with their reactions to the launch of NoSQL access to InnoDB in MySQL 5.6 and their suggestions that NoSQL access is only a part of the NoSQL story. First they ignore you, then they laugh at…
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Banking Stack: The End of Mainframe Banking
Welcome to the stack: the end of mainframe banking: Many years ago, enterprise software was written to run on mainframe computers. […] The traditional banking business model mirrors the mainframe: a vertically integrated, all-in-one solution with all the resources and tools needed to deliver banking products and services in one big (black) box. In the…
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Writing A Little Language in PowerShell for Graphviz
Writing A Little Language in PowerShell for Graphviz: A key strength to PowerShell is the ability to compose things quickly and cheaply to see if the rabbit hole is worth exploring further. One such use is abstracting away the complexities/ceremonies of textual formats such as the dot language for Graphviz. I have to try that out!
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MySQL version history, and NoSQL
MySQL version history: I’ve created a graph about the MySQL version history. It’s mysql-graph-history on github. Please let me know if this is correct or if I’m forgetting some versions. And while we’re talking about MySQL, here’s Monty Widenius About NoSQL, Big Data, and Obvioulsy MySQL and MariaDB, and Mr myNoSQL is tearing into some…
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Lyatiss Comes Out of Stealth, Aims to Make Networks Easy to Manage
Lyatiss Comes Out of Stealth, Aims to Make Networks Easy to Manage: You hear a lot these days in networking circles about “software defined networks. Lyatiss isn’t French for IT’s holy grail, but maybe it should be: Lyatiss, a startup that came out of a French research consortium wants to create a new communication layer…
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Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?
Cloud databases, or database on the cloud?: NuoDB has today kicked off that debate with the launch of its Cloud Data Management System and 12 rules for a 21st century cloud database. NuoDB’s 12 rules appear pretty sound to me – in fact you could argue they are somewhat obvious. Monash has a less favorable…
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Google’s Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter
Google’s Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter: Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google. The way Page sees it, a 10 percent improvement means that you’re basically doing the same thing as everybody else.…
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