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When I started writing this blog post, I had titled it “Tips for Designing Databases” and I planned to talk about various database design techniques. However, as I did more and more research, it dawned on me that one of the most crucial, and most overlooked, components of database development, is the selection of data types (Read More)
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This is just a quick start for a brainstorming of what we all hate in todays CMS (I am including portal/community software here as well and I guess most also applies to web shops) software out there. I have written a very small CMS application myself ages ago so I do not have experience in what its really like writing and m (Read More)
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Last week, I received an email from someone who told me how the Suhosin patch had created problems for their team, and suggested that I write about it here. I thought this was a great idea, for a number of reasons. Particularly, Suhosin is one of those PHP patches that alters the way PHP operates in a fundamental fashion, y (Read More)
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Even as a relatively small company, we’re drawing huge benefits from virtualization.Even small companies can draw huge benefits from virtualization.As I write this, about 50% of all our web-based systems are deployed on a completely virtualized environment. Even as a pretty small company, we’re drawing huge practical benefi (Read More)
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Thanks to the recent recurrence of a vulnerability I wrote about a few years ago and a gentle prod from Simon, I decided it would be good to write about the dangers of cross-domain Ajax with Flash again.If you read about this story on TechCrunch, note that the "write up explaining all the details" is about an unrelated vuln (Read More)
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Last week I wrote about some optimizations you can apply to your code that will improve the performance of your site significantly. I also mentioned that regularly an article pops up talking about ways to shave time off your scripts, and I talked about how these articles mostly are bunk. Like this one.The article I linked a (Read More)
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Video hilarity: Windows 7 launched on a MacBook Pro on NBC's The Today Show — Oh, dear. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was on The Today Show (international viewers: The Today Show is a morning news and entertainment program that airs on NBC, a big TV network here) to unveil Windows 7. (Read More)
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Sanjay, my colleague is an avid programmer and excel enthusiast. In his spare time he wrote a small VBA macro to solve Sudoku. Sudoku is a very famous number based puzzle with a 9×9 grid of cells. Each of the 9 rows, columns and 3×3 blocks should be filled in such a way that they have all the numbers from 1 to 9. Sudoku is (Read More)
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The US JusticeDepartment and the US SEC filedinsider trading complaints against the billionaire Raj Rajaratnam,his Galleon hedge fund and several other friends and associates a fewdays ago. All the interesting stuff (for example, the transcripts oftelephone conversations) are in the criminal complaints filed by theJustice D (Read More)
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::Planet PostgreSQL::
In the previous installment of this series (in which we’re migrating this blog from WordPress to Django and PostgreSQL), we installed Apache, Python 2.6, psycopg and mod_wsgi on the server.A note about the pace: I’m taking this very slowly, spelling out each and every setp. I realize that those of you with more Centos exper (Read More)
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