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Saturday, 16th April 2011

Cloud Computing

Cloud Poll: How Disruptive Is Cloud Foundry to the Platform Market?

VMware surprised a lot of people this past week with the unveiling of Cloud Foundry. Shrouded in secrecy, the announcement left competitors a bit flat footed as they soaked in the news. It's a significant development. Cloud Foundry has the potential to disrupt the platform market. Why? If nothing else, the price is right. You can download the…

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5 Free E-Books and Tutorials for Learning PHP

As high performance languages and frameworks like Node.js and Scala become more popular, is it even worth learning a seemingly old school language like PHP? Considering the persistent demand for PHP developers, and the fact that the language is in use as sites like Facebook and Wikipedia, I'd say so. ChartBoost recently posted an article called…

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You Got NoSQL in MySQL: Memcached Plugin in MySQL Technology Preview

Oracle released a technology preview this week a new version of MySQL that adds support for a Memcached plugin daemon for accessing InnoDB, MySQL's default storage engine. It's available from MySQL Labs. The plugin daemon is only available for Linux at this time. Memcached stores key-value queries in memory to achieve NoSQL performance…

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How to Keep Company Data Safe on Employees' Personal Devices

Once upon a time, the only computers people used at work were those paid for, owned and managed by the company and its IT department. One wouldn't even think of lugging in their home PC to use in the office. Why would they? Even as laptops came into prominence, the few employees that both owned laptops and needed to use them for work purposes…

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Build Your Own Fire Hose API with STREST - a New Protocol for Real-Time Data Streaming

STREST is a new open source protocol and server from Wiredset, the company behind the real-time social media analytics service Trendrr. STREST is HTTP-compatible and is designed for real-time data streaming. Wiredset has released the protocol spec, a server implementation and drivers in Java, Python and JavaScript. Wiredset created the protocol…

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