Old-fashioned relational databases don't cut it for analtics, says one vendor. read more ...

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Are we ready for a civilization that's based on pervasive computing and increasingly complex "systems of systems," all dependent up...

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Yes, No, No ... Pilot fish gets an opportunity for a week of training, room and board paid for by the training company. All he needs is money...

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What happened to American engineering over the last 20 years?  It used to be such a great profession.  It used to be a secure profession wh...

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I'm SO TIRED of new windows that are missing their menus or toolbars that I just want to scream. (Oh wait, I just did.) Can we make it illega...

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Grady Booch, an IBM fellow and inventor of UML, is using his position to preach the gospel of moral responsibility to software developers. Du...

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That's the new, CxO-level mantra at Forrester Research Inc. What's it mean? Forrester gurus say that "design for people, build for change" means this: Designing for peo...

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I wrote a post about multi-factor authentication back in August of last year.  And the single comment that I got about the post was from a...

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I wrote a post about multi-factor authentication back in August of last year.  And the single comment that I got about the post was from a...

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I haven't stopped reading about and play with with RoR after my Hands on with Ruby on Rails story, and I continue to uncover things that make Rails even more attractive as a time-s...

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