This week Cedric Beust, a Senior Android Software Engineer, and Erick Tseng, the Android Senior Product Manager, left Google to join LinkedIn and Facebook...
6 replies - 18696 views - 05/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The decade-old, open source 'database for objects' has managed to stay speedy and relevant in its old age. As it reaches version 8.0 with a developer release...
3 replies - 10267 views - 05/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
One of the big “Selling Points” of MySQL is support for Multiple
Storage engines, and from the glance view it is indeed great to provide
users with...
2 replies - 4164 views - 05/10/10 by Peter Zaitsev in News
Damien Katz, the creator of CouchDB and CEO of Couchio, is working with the Palm development team to implement further mobile syncing features with Apache...
1 replies - 12117 views - 05/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
PostgreSQL is widely considered to be the main open source competitor to MySQL. It's been five years since the release of PostgreSQL 8.0, but this week,...
0 replies - 15902 views - 05/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Mono Project lead Miguel de Icaza recently suggested that web developers could write much better applications if the Common Language Infrastructure (CLR), upon...
1 replies - 15450 views - 05/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Another thing I find interesting about MongoDB is its approach to
Durability, Data Consistency and Availability. It is very relaxed and
will not work for...
1 replies - 6469 views - 05/04/10 by Peter Zaitsev in News
I went to MongoSF
today – quite an event, and I hope to have a chance to write more
about it. This post is about one replication problem and how...
0 replies - 6708 views - 05/03/10 by Peter Zaitsev in News
Although some developers are worried about the long term future of MySQL under Oracle, some bloggers are voicing their excitement about the next release -...
0 replies - 6935 views - 04/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
When a hard drive crashes, you can lose all your data. Corrupt hard
drives happen out of the blue and for seemingly no good reason. If your
hard drive...
14 replies - 55779 views - 04/05/10 by Dan Wilson in News
The GAE team delivered the 1.3.2 SDK update last week, and with it came significant new datastore controls. The SDK allows GAE developers to use eventually...
0 replies - 6884 views - 03/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
At some point during the Oracle-Sun integration, Solaris 10 had a change in its usage terms which has caused some confusion on tech news sites and blogs. The...
5 replies - 20866 views - 03/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
After Facebook made the Cassandra project open source in 2008, the highly scalable, non-relational distributed database proved its mettle at other companies...
6 replies - 31630 views - 02/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Oracle has laid out its strategy for integrating Sun's resources - Human and Technological - into their own company infrastructure. The company plans to...
9 replies - 30399 views - 01/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Rackspace Gets MySQL DaaS
FathomDB, a MySQL-based Database-as-a-Service (DaaS), announced
recently that it would be teaming up with the Rackspace Cloud. ...
0 replies - 16363 views - 01/03/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
