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Lessons from Moneyball: don't get left behind

I recently read and watched “Moneyball”, and enjoyed both greatly. It’s a great story in and of itself, but I also found it to be an interesting parallel to the state of the “web software” industry today. Moneyball starts in the week before the 2002 baseball draft, with a set of meetings that pit Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane against his team of scouts. The scouts’ primary mechanism of evaluating players was visual – did the guy look, walk,…

Stuart Herbert's Blog: PHPUnit Plugin For Sublime Text 2

Stuart Herbert has officially released a plugin for the popular text editor Sublime Text 2 to integrate PHPUnit support directly into the editing environment. Sublime Text 2 is a new cross-platform text editor that I've recently switched to. It's still in public beta, but already offers better performance (and battery life!) and a better look (fonts that render properly!) than Java-based IDEs such as Netbeans. One thing it didn't have was support for PHPUnit, so I've made a plugin. It's available…

Future Insights Live – Early Birds Extended!

Building XtraDB on Windows

As you may or may not know, Windows is not yet a supported platform for XtraDB. I thought I’d try to build it, and see what happens: Download XtraDB 5.5 Source cd C:\xtradb-5.5 mkdir bld cd bld cmake .. VS08: File -> Open -> Solution -> C:\xtradb-5.5\bld\MySQL.sln Build Ended With: ========== Build: 70 succeeded, 17 failed, 2 up-to-date, 10 skipped ========== The first failure had to do with innobase: 18>Generating Code... 18>Build log was saved at "file://c:\..\innobase.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"…

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A XAML-Only Font ComboBox

A XAML-Only Font ComboBox

Manage business logic in Access forms

Avoid event spaghetti code when business logic becomes complex

JQueryUI smartAutocomplete

This widget extends the functionalities of jQueryUI Autocomplete widget by adding infinite scrolling when loading data from a remote source.

Runtime Configuration of Where Condition LINQ for Objects

Allow runtime alteration of where conditions for LINQ for Objects queries in response to user input.

New England’s Victory (for Big Data)

While it might not have been New England’s weekend on the Big Gridiron, it was certainly New England’s day for Big Data at the New England Database Summit on Friday at MIT. The summit was well attended, with 350 registrants and keynotes from prominent MySQL users such as Mark Callaghan. The coverage was quite broad, with presentations running the gamut from grad students (complete with bodyguards and intimidating academic advisors) to established companies such as StreamBase. The sponsor list…