As a single point of evidence, I give you Zabbix... It supports the use of all the major databases (Postgresql, DB2, Oracle, SQLite, etc.) as backends, yet MySQL is recommended as it performs the fastest.
http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/performance_tuning
From the linked document:
rebuild MySQL or PostgreSQL from sources to get maximum performance
2003 just called. They want their Gentoo Ricers back.
Problem with that analogy is that you die within days if you don't have water, while even the most hardcore torrent buff will survive without access to torrents.
I too am on BeThere (moved from BT) and I love the service. No data caps, no traffic shaping (none that I can detect anyway). The more people abandoning the BT and VirginMedia ships the better.
New markets mean new opportunities for everyone. For example, the App Store's revenue is in the billions and while Apple takes a 30% cut the rest of that goes to developers. That's a lot of money and opportunity for the indie developer.
On performance - frankly you are dreaming if you think wx and Qt run circles around iOS UI elements, which have all the rendering accelerated by the graphics hardware (since every view is really a plane in a 3D world!).
Qt renders its widgets using any available 3D hardware. wxWidgets uses native controls, so on the Mac there's nothing stopping you from using wxCocoa which should presumably be equally hardware accelerated as a native Cocoa app. The added benefit of these toolkits is that they're a lot more portable than Cocoa.
Malaysia has this thing called the Internal Security Act
Please note that the ISA (Internal Security Act) was enacted by the British during the post WW2 period for use against communist insurgents that were plaguing the country then. ISA was then extended due to activities by Indonesian saboteurs and the 1969 racial/political riots.
This wonderfully illustrates the famous Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." It also goes to show that laws are rarely repealed, only "embraced and extended".
I can't tell if you're being serious of facetious. Malaysia has this thing called the Internal Security Act, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Security_Act_(Malaysia). It has been used frequently to put down opposition, most notably during the 1980s as part of Operation Lalang.
Be assured that any "occupy" protests will be dealt with swiftly and severely.
I don't know what sort of company you work for, but I've never ever heard of anyone being demoted from Senior X to Junior X without changing jobs. The fact is, if your company switches tech to something you're not familiar with then it's time to learn something new while being paid! That makes the most sense in the short term (you keep your job) and it makes sense in the long term (you have new expertise that will make you more employable). It's a win-win as far as I'm concerned.
There is a graph on this page http://camerapricebuster.co.uk/prod1632.html which is for the Nikon D7000 which is manufactured in Thailand. It looks like the price jumped rather significantly.
I'm sorry but 2€ a month for unlimited bandwidth on a wired connection sounds incredibly unlikely. 2€ for unlimited bandwidth on a mobile connection.... that's just unbelievable. It may be that I'm living under a rock, and have grown used to how we get ripped off here in the UK but that just sounds totally unbelievable.
What country do you live in and can you provide a link to your ISP that provides such a great deal?
...but if you want something more modern/dynamic/something that replaces desktop POS/reporting systems/games good luck...
Funny you should say that.
I'm currently working on a replacement for my company's dashboard/reports front end that is flash based. The replacement is being developed in Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, pyodbc) and the output is HTML and Javascript. I'm using JQueryUI and jqReports to do my charting and user interface.
The new dashboards are rapidly approaching feature parity with the old dashboards, with the following added benefit:
1) It's a lot faster than Flash
2) It runs on iPads and iPhones. This is a MAJOR win at sales presentations. Never underestimate the "ZOMG iPAD!11!" factor.
Flash is definitely on its way out and should rightly be classed as legacy technology. You'd have to be barking mad to start a new project and target Flash.
Somewhere out there, Silvio Berlusconi is slapping himself for not coming up with that excuse.
"I tripped and fell, lost my trousers in the process and landed in bed with a beautiful naked girl."
> Don't purchase any of these ARM powered devices which run Windows 8.
Have you tried recently to buy a netbook which doesn't have some flavour of Windows installed?
It's still possible to buy netbooks without Windows pre-installed. Heck, it's possible to buy ARM based netbooks. I bought one two months ago from these guys (http://www.genesi-usa.com/).
I'll make an exception for comments to explain why a given piece of code is not actually batshit insane but required to work with a third-party library you have to use.
I would go so far as saying that documentation of non-public APIs (i.e. stuff that is only used by the same team) is worthless as it rapidly gets out of date, and it takes an insane amount of effort to keep it up to date and correct.
Keeping the documentation up to date requires additional effort and time, which means less time for writing code and unit tests. This much is self-evident as is the result: each piece of work takes longer to deliver.
Ensuring the documentation is correct and up-to-date is impossible. There are loads of tools that will help you improve the quality of your code. Static analysis tools, unit tests and code coverage tools, and the good old QA department to name a few. No such tools exist to ensure the quality of your documentation. Additionally, as documentation does not get executed as part of the build/unit-tests/QA tests there is no way of ensuring that the documentation isn't flat out wrong (nevermind ensuring that the documentation is "correct").
On most projects, sensible class/method/variable names help reduce the need for documentation. Properly written, comprehensive unit test coverage all but eliminates the need for documentation. Want to know how to invoke a particular piece of code? Look at the unit tests. Want to know what this option does? Look at the unit tests. Want to know the behaviour of a piece of code given a certain parameter? Look at the unit tests. Want to know all possible values for a parameter? Look at the unit tests.
The only time you ever want to have comments is to explain what a piece of non-trivial, non-intuitive piece of code does.
TLDR version, properly unit tested code rarely ever requires accompanying documentation. The fact that the author of the article FAILS to mention unit tests just shows that he's spent far too little time writing code and far too much time writing stupid fluff pieces like this for PHBs.
The development APIs are totally different on WP7. I could use Win32 API calls, MFC and WTL on WinCE/WinMob. I *have* to use Silverlight and.NET on WP7. While the kernel might be based on Windows CE, to imply that WP7 is just a continuation of Windows Mobile is wrong.
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The default Amazon EC2 linux instance exposes only SSH and logs you in as a user with sudo privileges.
If your instance has a significant amount of idle time, you're likely better off with an on-demand instance and powering it off when it's not in use.
As a single point of evidence, I give you Zabbix... It supports the use of all the major databases (Postgresql, DB2, Oracle, SQLite, etc.) as backends, yet MySQL is recommended as it performs the fastest. http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/performance_tuning
From the linked document:
rebuild MySQL or PostgreSQL from sources to get maximum performance
2003 just called. They want their Gentoo Ricers back.
Problem with that analogy is that you die within days if you don't have water, while even the most hardcore torrent buff will survive without access to torrents.
I too am on BeThere (moved from BT) and I love the service. No data caps, no traffic shaping (none that I can detect anyway). The more people abandoning the BT and VirginMedia ships the better.
Have Google released the source code to their search engine?
Thought not.
New markets mean new opportunities for everyone. For example, the App Store's revenue is in the billions and while Apple takes a 30% cut the rest of that goes to developers. That's a lot of money and opportunity for the indie developer.
Most (all?) virus scanners will also detect trojans.
On performance - frankly you are dreaming if you think wx and Qt run circles around iOS UI elements, which have all the rendering accelerated by the graphics hardware (since every view is really a plane in a 3D world!).
Qt renders its widgets using any available 3D hardware. wxWidgets uses native controls, so on the Mac there's nothing stopping you from using wxCocoa which should presumably be equally hardware accelerated as a native Cocoa app. The added benefit of these toolkits is that they're a lot more portable than Cocoa.
Malaysia has this thing called the Internal Security Act
Please note that the ISA (Internal Security Act) was enacted by the British during the post WW2 period for use against communist insurgents that were plaguing the country then. ISA was then extended due to activities by Indonesian saboteurs and the 1969 racial/political riots.
This wonderfully illustrates the famous Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." It also goes to show that laws are rarely repealed, only "embraced and extended".
Be assured that any "occupy" protests will be dealt with swiftly and severely.
I don't know what sort of company you work for, but I've never ever heard of anyone being demoted from Senior X to Junior X without changing jobs. The fact is, if your company switches tech to something you're not familiar with then it's time to learn something new while being paid! That makes the most sense in the short term (you keep your job) and it makes sense in the long term (you have new expertise that will make you more employable). It's a win-win as far as I'm concerned.
There is a graph on this page http://camerapricebuster.co.uk/prod1632.html which is for the Nikon D7000 which is manufactured in Thailand. It looks like the price jumped rather significantly.
Try Singapore. It's a fairly modern southeast asian country that's got a high demand for skilled people.
I'm using JQueryUI and jqReports to do my charting and user interface.
It's actually JQueryUI and jqPlot. I thought I'd correct that for posterity.
What country do you live in and can you provide a link to your ISP that provides such a great deal?
...but if you want something more modern/dynamic/something that replaces desktop POS/ reporting systems /games good luck ...
Funny you should say that.
I'm currently working on a replacement for my company's dashboard/reports front end that is flash based. The replacement is being developed in Python (Flask, SQLAlchemy, pyodbc) and the output is HTML and Javascript. I'm using JQueryUI and jqReports to do my charting and user interface.
The new dashboards are rapidly approaching feature parity with the old dashboards, with the following added benefit:
Flash is definitely on its way out and should rightly be classed as legacy technology. You'd have to be barking mad to start a new project and target Flash.
He says he tripped and fell into a lifeboat
Somewhere out there, Silvio Berlusconi is slapping himself for not coming up with that excuse. "I tripped and fell, lost my trousers in the process and landed in bed with a beautiful naked girl."
You have to admit, bears was funnier.
The opposite could be the case, someone might be using goto not knowing it's considered bad and learn that it is from this achievement.
You'd have to be living under a rock to *not* know that GOTOs are considered bad.
> Don't purchase any of these ARM powered devices which run Windows 8.
Have you tried recently to buy a netbook which doesn't have some flavour of Windows installed?
It's still possible to buy netbooks without Windows pre-installed. Heck, it's possible to buy ARM based netbooks. I bought one two months ago from these guys (http://www.genesi-usa.com/).
So your solution is to drive retailers out of business in order to strike at manufacturers? Talk about collateral damage...
I'll make an exception for comments to explain why a given piece of code is not actually batshit insane but required to work with a third-party library you have to use.
Keeping the documentation up to date requires additional effort and time, which means less time for writing code and unit tests. This much is self-evident as is the result: each piece of work takes longer to deliver.
Ensuring the documentation is correct and up-to-date is impossible. There are loads of tools that will help you improve the quality of your code. Static analysis tools, unit tests and code coverage tools, and the good old QA department to name a few. No such tools exist to ensure the quality of your documentation. Additionally, as documentation does not get executed as part of the build/unit-tests/QA tests there is no way of ensuring that the documentation isn't flat out wrong (nevermind ensuring that the documentation is "correct").
On most projects, sensible class/method/variable names help reduce the need for documentation. Properly written, comprehensive unit test coverage all but eliminates the need for documentation. Want to know how to invoke a particular piece of code? Look at the unit tests. Want to know what this option does? Look at the unit tests. Want to know the behaviour of a piece of code given a certain parameter? Look at the unit tests. Want to know all possible values for a parameter? Look at the unit tests.
The only time you ever want to have comments is to explain what a piece of non-trivial, non-intuitive piece of code does.
TLDR version, properly unit tested code rarely ever requires accompanying documentation. The fact that the author of the article FAILS to mention unit tests just shows that he's spent far too little time writing code and far too much time writing stupid fluff pieces like this for PHBs.
The development APIs are totally different on WP7. I could use Win32 API calls, MFC and WTL on WinCE/WinMob. I *have* to use Silverlight and .NET on WP7. While the kernel might be based on Windows CE, to imply that WP7 is just a continuation of Windows Mobile is wrong.