Monthly Archives: May 2012

Password Handling

I thought this article on Best Buy PC setup was amusing. Here’s a company that’s trying to provide a service. They’re offering to set up most of your new machine for you. To make sure that things work right away for you, … Continue reading

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Moving from NoSQL to an RDBMS

I saw this link about a company that moved (Goodbye, CouchDB) from a NoSQL database (CouchDB) to a relational one (MySQL) because of some problems they experienced. Sauce Labs provides testing services in the cloud for developers using the Selenium … Continue reading

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Hustle

As long as we have people with this attitude, we are going places: “If you hustle – all out, fully hustle – and you succeed, then you gain the satisfaction of a job well done. If you hustle and fail, … Continue reading

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What is Big Data?

This industry is full of some very smart people. We tend to get some very strong opinions, and some rather snarky comments at times about the way the technologies that we use are presented. Karen Lopez (@datachick | blog) recently made headlines with … Continue reading

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