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- Getting Started with DrupalYesterday
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Once upon a time, website programming was a fairly arduous proposition. You could spend months putting together the various back end processing pages in ASP or PHP or Perl, writing included files that, if you were thoughtful about it, may contain some reuse, but overall writing such code by hand almost invariably meant that the code was not only very targeted to one particular use but was an absolute nightmare to maintain.
- Why geeks don't like to run AVYesterday
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When you look at the average, non-technical user, they probably should be running AV, because it is pretty unobtrusive, it does catch some things (even if it's not many), and they don't have the same sense of what the real risks are as I do. But, many technical people are like me. We're only going to use security technology if it's easy to use and works pretty well, unless forced to do so by our bosses. That leaves many geeks more vulnerable than they expect. But I know plenty of people who didn't install AV even after an infection, because they thought the price was too high... they'd rather do a very occasional cleanup.
- New MySQL Query Analyzer for enterprise customersYesterday
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MySQL AB (now Sun's Database group) established a multi-pronged
business model long ago: support contracts, dual licensing, and
proprietary add-ons all play a role in making them one of the biggest
success stories in the area of open source business. Today their
MySQL Query Analyzer
adds another brick to that edifice.
The analyzer can do simple things such as tell you how long a recent
query took and how the optimizer handled it (the results of EXPLAIN
statements). But it can also give historical information such as how
the current runs of a query compare to earlier runs.
- Juval Lowy explains Service-OrientationNovember 18
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Juval Lowy's Programming WCF Services is considered to be the most definitive treatment of Microsoft's WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) available. In it, Juval provides both the guidance and insight needed to master the skills for building maintainable, extensible, and reusable WCF-based applications. Juval's talent as a teacher—that for tackling vast subjects and making them easy to learn—comes through especially well in this appendix from his book: An Introduction to Service-Orientation. These days, there's no avoiding the phrase "service-oriented," but few people can explain what it means and why it's so important. Juval gets to the heart of the matter in this excerpt.
- DIY Appliances on the Web?November 18
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Or, My Enterprise is Appliancized, Why Isn't Your Web? I wrote a couple of posts a while back that covered task-optimized hardware. This one was about a system that combined Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA's) with a commodity CPU platform to provide the sheer number crunching performance needed to break GSM encryption. This one looked at using task-appropriate efficient processors...