…were business standard. They were good enough to run simple word processing and spreadsheet software. Software written for MS-DOS would run on any MS-DOS computer. A lock-in effect with a positive feedback loop set it: people wrote software for PCs because PC sold well and were widely distributed in the business world, and people bought in turn PCs because there were at lot of software available for them. Soon everybody in the business world was using PCs, and the old DEC empire started …
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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.2 for MySQL on May 17, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories .
This release fixes number of high-priority bugs since version 2.1 became GA. It's advised to upgrade your latest 2.1 version to 2.1.2. This release is the latest stable release in the 2.1 series.
Bugs Fixed:
Using Perl's DBD:: MySQL package for server communication …
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Software programs usually are not fault-tolerant systems at a basic level, there is no graceful degradation in machine language. On the lowest level in machine language or assembly the program works only if there is no error. A single error can be the system to a full stop. Either the computer program runs, which means you have to get every instruction right, or it hangs, throws an exception and stops completely. It is of course usually possible to figure the problem out, if you have enough time, …
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…Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories .
Percona XtraBackup enables backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backup. The new 2.1.1 GA version offers improved …
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I'm graduating soon with a Bachelor's in Software Engineering, however during the course of getting my degree I decided I do not want to be a programmer.
I minored in Business Management and really enjoyed that, particularly the management side of psychology and the basics of the processes involved with restructuring a business, but don't really want to throw away my programming degree either.
Is there a field for someone with a Software Engineering degree who wants …
The companies are also collaborating on creating cookbooks for the IBM Software portfolio, beginning with the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile. This cookbook will provide reusable content to allow the rapid provisioning and full application lifecycle management of WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile applications.
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The companies are also collaborating on creating cookbooks for the IBM Software portfolio, beginning with the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile. This cookbook will provide reusable content to allow the rapid provisioning and full application lifecycle management of WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile applications.
"Our collaboration with IBM is addressing a major transformation facing enterprises as they code their businesses to thrive in the digital economy," …
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Don't Make My Mistakes In Picking A Software Business
This is a wee bit more sophisticated than my bingo thingy. Why did I pick this problem? This is the slide in which I give bad advice. The way you should actually pick a problem, skip back to your notes from Amy Hoy's presentation. That's the way you should pick a problem. This is not the way you should pick a problem, but it's true, so I'll tell you it anyhow. You see this jacket that I wear in all of my presentations, …
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Software development is one of those fields that's classified as "professional", yet doesn't have strict educational requirements as other fields, such as medicine, engineering and law do. Some of the biggest names in software come without academic credentials: consider Jobs, Gates and Zuckerberg, as well as some lesser-known-among-laypeople ones including Anders Hejlberg (creator of Turbo Pascal, chief architect of Delphi and later C#), John Carmack …
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