Last week’s Facebook announcement was not much of a surprise. Everyone knew Zuck & Co. were out to invade Android, offering big, blue and white thumbs to stamp on every aspect of a user’s mobile experience. Sure, Chatheads are neat, and coverflow looks pretty. But Facebook Home, in and of itself, isn’t that big of …
In our houses, cars, and factories, we’re surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Now they are beginning to talk to one another. Soon we’ll be able to choreograph them to respond to our needs, solve our problems, even save our lives via In the Programmable …
psql -U postfix -h localhost -l -t | awk ‘/^ [a-zA-Z]+/ { print $1; }’ | grep -v ‘^\(template0\)’ | while read DBNAME do … done #! /bin/sh # Keep n days worth of backups GENERATIONS=180 BACKUP_DIR=”/var/backups/generational/pgsql”; BACKUP_CURRENT=”/var/backups/pgsql”; DATE=`date +’%Y%m%d’` HOSTNAME=`hostname` DBUSER=”postgres” # load defaults, over-riding script supplied values [ -f /etc/default/pgbackup ] && . …
This tutorial describes the usage of EGit; an Eclipse plug-in to use the distributed version control system Git. This tutorial is based on Eclipse 4.2 (Juno). via Git version control with Eclipse (EGit) – Tutorial.
A lot of people hate on MongoDB. In my opinion they’re misguided – the main reason so many people think like this is a lack of understanding. Everyone should be able to benefit from MongoDB’s power and simplicity, and so as a follow up to David’s article I have outlined some common and not-so-common things …
The SQL Relay distribution does not provide a native JBCD driver, but by using the ODBC-to-JDBC bridge provided by most Java distributions, applications which use JDBC on Unix or Linux may access databases through SQL Relay via the ODBC driver. Note that the ODBC driver lacks some features, hasn’t been thoroughly tested and is not …
generator (optional) – The name of the generator to use. Can be increment, identity, sequence, hilo, seqhilo, uuid, guid, native, assigned, select, foreign or sequence-identity. See Hibernate reference documentation for more information. via The Grails Framework 2.0.4.
With SQL Relay, you can speed up and enhance the scalability of database-driven web-based applications, access databases from unsupported platforms, throttle database access, distribute access to clustered or replicated databases, route queries and migrate applications from one database to another. via firstworks: SQL Relay – sqlrelay persistent database connection pool pooling proxy load balance balancing …
As more and more logic ends up being executed in the browser, JavaScript front-end codebases grow larger and more difficult to maintain. As a way to solve this issue developers have been turning to MVC frameworks which promise increased productivity and maintainable code. As part of the new community-driven research initiative, InfoQ is examining the …
Netflix, the popular movie streaming site, deploys a hundred times per day, without the use of Chef or Puppet, without a quality assurance department and without release engineers. To do this, Netflix built an advanced in-house PaaS (Platform as a Service) that allows each team to deploy their own part of the infrastructure whenever they want, …