There are different levels of expected performance for software applications. The cockpit display of a commercial airplane or that software that powers high-frequency trading machines can not afford a single hiccup; hundreds of lives or millions of dollars are at… Continue reading →

The IT world more or less has traditionally run on Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres, and many more relational databases that we are omitting for the sake of space. The relational database model is certainly not going to go away… Continue reading →

There are many people who look at Facebook as being a frivolity and even go as far as to call it a waste of time. We can also vouch for the existence of the uber-rare Facebook holdouts – never once… Continue reading →

Unlike the lightweight, super-abstract, interpreted, often browser-oriented languages that are taking over programmer message boards and job reqs these days, C++ has never one made anything approaching the promise of “write once, run anywhere.” Aside from the obvious trait… Continue reading →

The major open-source content management systems – Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla – have lowered the barrier to entry in web development in a way that can make pretty much anyone a “web administrator” with only about a half-hour worth of… Continue reading →