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Bruce Johnson · Principal Consultant, ObjectSharp · Software Development
I’ve spent some time over the last couple of weeks pondering an unusual SQL tuning problem. The situation is as follows: The following statements are executed against a SQL 2000 database that contains >1M records in the act_item table. They are run using Query Analyzer and the Duration and Reads come from SQL Profiler
Filed at 6:16am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · content co creation / content co-creation / Knowledge Management / new media / old media
The early 21st century is breakout time for people who have spent their lives straightjacketed by information technology. Yes, kids use Bebo and MySpace but the rest of us who endured the previous generation of management by IT tools are looking for a bit of biography feel-good too. The story begins with copier repair man....
Filed at 8:41am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · channels and content / content / content co creation / content co-creation / Knowledge Management
Here are a few sites that I think point the way forward. That is to a visually rich world where a cooperative enterprise grows out of the web. We saw some of it yesterday in Shopwiki and we know the same spirit exists in TripAdvisor.There’s also Hotelchatter, Jaunted and more impressively Yellow Arrow.These are...
Filed at 9:17am
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · it security
I've long been hostile to certifications -- I've met too many bad security professionals with certifications and know many excellent security professionals without certifications. But, I've come to believe that, while certifications aren't perfect, they're a decent way for a security professional to learn some of the things he's going to know, and a potential employer to assess whether a job candidate has the security expertise he's going to need to know.
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Kingsley Idehen · Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software · gdata / rdf / rss / semanticweb / Software Development / sparql / web2.0 / web20 / webservices
Goggle vs Semantic Web : " Google exec challenges Berners-Lee 'At the end of the keynote, however, things took a different turn. Google Director of Search and AAAI Fellow Peter Norvig was the first to the microphone during the Q&A session, and he took the opportunity to raise a few points. 'What I get a lot is: 'Why are you against the Semantic Web?' I am not against the Semantic Web. But from Google's point of view, there are a few things you need to overcome, incompetence being the first,' Norvig said. Norvig clarified that it was not Berners-Lee or his group that he was referring to as incompetent, but the general user.' Related: Google Base -- summing up ."
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David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
I was recently interviewed by Vance McCarthy of Integration Developer News, where he asked me a number of questions about what Progress and Sonic have been doing with new advancements in ESB technolog
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David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
There's quite a lively discussion heating up over on InfoQ on the subject of ESB's--Concensus on the definition of an ESB, and ESB use cases are two of the forum topics that are going on over there at
Filed at 6:15pm
Joel Spolsky · CEO, Fog Creek Software · Software Development
Yesterday, the net sum of what I managed to accomplish consisted, approximately, of creating one new email address. Sure, there were extenuating factors: it was the first email address on the fogcreek.de domain, the German registry doesn't understand that the order of your domain's name servers should not make any difference, it was a Bad Hayfever Day, and lots of people interrupt me all day long. And the combination of Postfix + Cyrus + ActiveDirectory authentication over LDAP is a little bit too much for my rapidly shrinking brain to handle.
Filed at 6:19pm
Dave Carter · CTO & VP Strategy, iUpload · Data Management
Some interesting data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project in a report called Bloggers A portrait of the internet's new storytellers .
Filed at 6:54pm
Joel Spolsky · CEO, Fog Creek Software · Software Development
Here at Fog Creek Software we recently finished a big expansion of our office space. If you'd like to check it out, meet the Fog Creek team and this year's crop of bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed summer interns, please come to our open house, next Thursday, July 27th, at 5:00 pm. There will be snacks and wine.
Filed at 8:28pm