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Last Friday’s BBBT presentation by an ensemble cast from Rocket Software was interesting, in both good and bad meanings of that word. They have some very interesting products that address the business intelligence (BI) industry, but they also have some...

In early 1967 things were humming along better than ever. Shell Oil was a great place to work. Never again in my long career would I have as nice an office as I did when I first started working there. Carpeting, wooden desk, one office mate, carafe of...

Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding as the Hour...

The development version of PECL/mysqlnd_ms now has an very early version of distributed (2PC/XA) transaction support tailored for use with clusters of MySQL servers. XA transactions can span multiple servers in a cluster to ensure transaction guarantees...

The head of Alphabet’s innovation lab talks about its latest "moonshot" projects Astro Teller has an unusual way of starting a new project: He tries to kill it. Teller is the head of X, formerly Google X, the advanced technology lab of Alphabet. At...