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android-developers.blogspot — [This post is by Ibrahim Elbouchikhi, Product Manager on the Google Play team. —Dirk Dougherty] We launched In-app Billing on Google Play a year ago to give developers more ways to sell and engage users over the lifetime of their apps. Since the launch, In-app Billing has been extremely successful in...

agiletips.blogspot — On the past 7 months I have been working with a SW delivery team on a way that is conceptually different than many of the teams I have worked before.The main difference:Instead of forming a team to deliver a feature, a performing team works on a feature after another.Let’s take...

tokutek —     Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks include ingesting data while maintaining indexes; changing schemas without downtime; and supporting connections, replication, and backup. For some scaling problems (connections and replication),...

karlssonondatabases.blogspot — Yes, things certainly changes all the time for us IT folks. New classes of hardware, new cool pieces of software and cool gadgets. Stuff that usually gets better and better, and if not, at least they are on the move. Constantly.2012 years new potatoes. (c) GodIf it isn't Ivy Bridge...

thedailywtf — There are certain baselines that telecom companies care about. If, for example, your company is responsible for a set of network devices at the local airport, detecting and correcting failures quickly was very important. Miguel was the IT support for the team ulitmately accountable for those devices. His first major...

martinfowler — Retread of post orginally made on 14 Nov 2008 Let's imagine a pretty world of SOA-happiness where the computing needs of an enterprise are split into many small applications that provide services to each other to allow effective collaboration. One fine morning a consumer service needs some information...

johndcook — Here are the first three changes I make to a new computer. Remap Caps Lock to be a control key. Delete all icons from the desktop. Mute the sound. Related posts: Why and how to remap Caps Lock (Windows, Linux, and Mac) Deleting the Windows recycle bin icon

karlssonondatabases.blogspot — Whoa, it was a long time since I posted here! But I have been very busy with non-MySQL related issues lately, so that is an explanation I guess.This week I decided to try a few MySQL things anyway, the plan was to compare MongoDB with MySQL Cluster as a key-value...

blog.mclaughlinsoftware — A question came up today about how to stripe a MySQL view, and this post shows you how. Along with the question, there was a complaint about why you can’t use session variables in a view definition. It’s important to note two things: there’s a workaround and there’s an outstanding...

mysqlperformanceblog — I’m pleased to announce a variety of prize winners associated with the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012. The following people won prizes in the pre-conference registration promotion: Kindle Fire Winners: Tatiana B., Etsy, United States Tom H., Cloudtree, United States Loren A., HearSayCorp, United States High Performance MySQL 3rd Edition Book Winners: Marcus O.,...

channel9.msdn — Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip...

googledevelopers.blogspot — Jake Antonio By Antonio Fuentes and Jake Moshenko, Google Developer Team Last March we introduced the Google APIs Explorer, an interactive tool that enables you to try out a Google API in minutes and explore its supported methods. When we launched it, the APIs Explorer supported over a half dozen APIs. ...

community.thoughtworks — Blog Entry by Suzie PrinceFinding stories in your backlog, locating a bug that was logged last week and rediscovering the acceptance criteria on an older story all require a good search capability. The need to find specific cards more easily and consistently in a Mingle project, especially with a large...

encosia — When it comes to extracting data from an HTML document on the server-side, Node.js is a fantastic option. Not so much because of any particular feature of Node itself, but because running JavaScript on the server also means that you can run jQuery on the server. Then, many of the...

channel9.msdn — With the introduction of Metro style apps for C++ developers, Microsoft now brings the XAML UI platform to native code!  I will take you through a lap around creating a Metro style app in XAML and C++.  I'll introduce the fundamentals of the XAML platform in WinRT and how C++...

blogs.msdn — A customer liaison asked, "My customer is looking for information on the GUID generation algorithm. They need to select N items randomly from a pool of M (jury selection), and their proposed algorithm is to assign each item a GUID, then sort the items by GUID and take the first N." (I've seen similar questions regarding using GUIDs for things...

thedailywtf — "This is a small peek into the production database of one of our client's systems," writes Walter. "I wish I could say that this was an unused table, an isolated occurrence... or even that I had some other job prospects. But sadly, none of those are the case." mysql>...

johndcook — One of the problems in X and the City, a book I mentioned the other day, is deciding whether you’ll get wetter by walking or running in the rain. The author takes several factors into account and models the total amount of water a person absorbs as T = Iwd(ct cos θ...

blogs.oracle — On Wednesday May 16th, we ran a webinar to provide an overview of all of the new replication features and enhancements that are previewed in the MySQL 5.6 Development Release – including Global Transaction IDs, auto-failover and self-healing, multi-threaded, crash-safe slaves and more. Collectively, these new capabilities enable MySQL users to scale for...

markhneedham — On the project I’ve been working on we had a requirement to sort a collection of rows by 4 different criteria such that if two items matched for the first criteria we should consider the second criteria and so on. If we wrote that code in Haskell it would read a...

blogs.msdn — Ed Hintz discusses two interesting cases in which an ASP.NET MVC AntiForgeryToken - which provides security against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks - may be missing or invalid.

mysqlperformanceblog — Every time I have a conversation on SSD, someone mentions btrfs filesystem. And usually it is colored as a solution that will solve all our problems, improve overall performance and SSD in particular, and it is a saviour. Of course it caught my curiosity and I decided to perform a...

aws.typepad — You can now view and modify the contents of your DynamoDB tables from within the AWS Management Console. With the addition of this new feature, you can learn by doing -- trying out a number of DynamoDB features without even writing any code. You can create a table, add some...

dbasquare — Recently I had to turn a few EC2 instances into MySQL database servers. The third time I had to do it, I grabbed the list of steps from my previous sessions and just replayed it. Later I thought maybe polishing the information a little bit and publishing the step-by-step walkthrough...