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  When neither a column store nor a row store is the answer A few days ago I found myself giving database advice to a friend with a new startup. His problem is a pretty common one: he has a very large corpus of data, over which he will run compute-intensive proprietary algorithms. Both the data and the computation... Posted Apr 11 2008, 03:34 PM by Nothing To See Here Feeds Filed under: implementation, few days, new technology, databases, queries, prototype, query component, proprietary algorithms, transaction processing, map, bigtable, advice to a friend

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  Mort means productivity Recently, a number of folks in the Java space have taken to openly ridiculing Microsoft's use of the "Mort" persona, latching on to the idea that Mort is somehow equivalent to "Visual Basic programmer", which is itself somehow... Posted Mar 15 2008, 08:57 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: programmers, microsoft, implementation, productivity, java space, einstein, damn thing, visual basic programmer, usability, problem domain, efficient solution, working solutions, elvis, long lasting solutions, pragmatic programmer, summarization, wizards

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  CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA! In November 2007 I called these three CAPTCHA implementations "unbreakable" : Google (unbreakable) Hotmail (unbreakable) Yahoo (unbreakable) 2008 is shaping up to be a very bad year indeed for CAPTCHAs: Jan 17: InformationWeek reports Yahoo... Posted Mar 04 2008, 11:59 PM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: algorithms, google, implementation, yahoo, yahoo mail, speed bumps, evil one, websense, spam, internet users, captcha, success rate, informationweek, spammers, protection technology, captchas, breaks my heart, email service, deluge

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  More language features revisited Since we're examining various aspects of the canonical O-O language (the three principals being C++, Java and C#/VB.NET), let's take in a review of another recent post, this time on the use of "new" in said languages. All of us have... Posted Feb 22 2008, 01:49 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: languages, implementation, vb, podcast, foo, software development, canonical, logic, amp nbsp, prior art, public constructor, scott bain, principals, joshua bloch, curious c, ties, abstract class, concrete class, emergent design

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  Let the JDK Hacking Begin... OpenJDK, the open-source JDK 7 release (and no, I don't know if there's any practical difference between the two) has officially opened for business with the promotion of the "real, live" Mercurial repositories . These are the real deal... Posted Dec 15 2007, 02:35 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: implementation, source code, open source, bugs, svn, new features, window of opportunity, diffs, real deal, modules system, core classes, sun employees, client server, repositories, tiny window, java libraries