Barbie– the monstrously popular doll of the 20th century! As a child I owned a cabinet-full of them, but I could never really fall in love with her and I actually preferred to play with my animal toys. Barbie was too… plastic, she didn’t have enough detail or value. She’s preteen “corporate,” she’s ...
For a change, today’s article has nothing to do with performance. Instead, I’m going to tackle a simple task that I find myself doing all the time while working with Flash UIs: displaying icons. It sounds boring and, well, it really aught to be. However, I’m constantly asked by UI designers to popul ...
Agile als Mega-Trend Agile Methode wie Scrum sind ein Mega-Trend und mittlerweile in der IT-Industrie weit verbreitet. Sie fhren in vielen Fällen zu erstaunlich guten Ergebnissen: Mittels Fokussierung und den anderen Werten in Scrum können Verbesserungen in der Produktivität und Qualität erreicht we ...
I had a few hours to spare a couple of days ago and decided to check InnoDB Plugin 1.0’s support for data compression. In a project I work on from time to time, there is a table which contains three blobs which contains text data. To store the data efficiently I was using the COMPRESS() function in ...
Vernon Technology Solutions is a company with many available services: Computer Rental/Leasing Hard Disk Crushing /Data Destruction Video Conferencing / videoCloud Asset Recovery and Recycling and much more. After some review it was decided that this blog is jumping too quickly from topic to topic a ...
This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out! [While I've done my best to cover the various options for HD video chips and the trends in the market, I also wanted to take a deeper dive and explain how we analyze such a chip. In this case, the TI DM6467, which we ...
I’ve been working on a new feature that requires analysis of each individual’s entire energy-use history. In other words, I have a process that will touch every single bit of data in our database. This should be a rare thing, so if it takes a while, it’s not that big of a deal. My initial implementa ...
Service Oriented Architectures [SOA] play a pivotal role in today’s Enterprise Systems. Service orientation requires loose coupling of services with the underlying technologies. There is a lot Web Oriented Architectures gain by taking the SOA approach, especially with regard to aspects like scaling ...
I am not saying that this is a disaster because Shadow is still getting about a 15% damage increase in 3.3 but it still stings. Quote from Blizzard staff Priest Shadow Word: Pain and Haste in Patch 3.3 We removed Shadow Word: Pain from scaling with haste because we thought Shadow dps was too high wi ...
Dux Franchise The shift is difficult when you have to establish your brand identity from scratch to attract customers. But in a different scenario, if you can ride on a recognized brand name, then you have already crossed half the journey towards starting your own business. A Franchise is a very att ...
