Using Cucumber can make your Ruby on Rails development projects understandable to the business folks. That's what this Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tool is all about.
States are passing more and more data security laws, the US Senate and the House have bills meandering through Congress, securing personal information and encrypting that data is no longer optional.
<b>Tech Source:</b> "9. People of Lava Want to Put a Big Android in Your Living Room Android is not just for smartphones anymore -- in fact, a Swedish company has just unveiled the first Android-based TV."
<b>Linux.com:</b> "A few weeks ago we looked at some of the GNU utilities that you can use to work with files, check MD5/SHA1 sums and check your disk usage. This time around I want to cover some of the utilities that you'll use for working with text files."
<b>Handle With Linux:</b> "Watch this: a Linux powered baby dinosaur, with a arm processor heart. The robot runs Live OS. An embedded, linux based operating system which features a custom programming language, giving the possibility to interact with the robot on the programming level"
<b>Stop:</b> "The project to deliver One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) for educational purpose in developing countries is doing great in Paraguay. According to developer Bernie Innocenti, this success comes from a way to manage the development of the Sugar educational software that other countries (or any other similar projects, see for example the Teachermate or the italian JumpPC) could and should imitate."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "...it turns out that Canonical may actually deploy Btrfs this year. Not only to provide an installation option within the installer for Btrfs, but to make it the default file-system."
<b>FOSS Patents:</b> "But no matter how defensive the DPL may be at first sight, it could pave the way for a whole new business model: that of the Fair Troll (which I'll explain in this post)."
<b>Tech Broiler:</b> "It was simply a matter of time before Linux became my primary operating system. My most recent malware incident was the final straw that sent me into welcoming and safe haven of Ubuntu"
<b>LinuxLinks: </b>"To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 high quality Linux application launchers. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone who wants to improve their productivity."
Use this handy tip to determine the size of your SQL Server tables, which can be very useful for estimating the size and growth of a database over time.
The Java collections framework contains classes you use to maintain collections of other objects. These collection classes have different performance and ordering properties. See how the HashMap and HashSet Classes allow objects to be added to a collection, removed from a collection, or found in roughly constant time. Discover how to use these classes and what to do to achieve good performance from them.
Use this handy tip to determine the size of your SQL Server tables, which can be very useful for estimating the size and growth of a database over time.
With so many notions about what cloud computing even is, it's hard to cut through the hype. Charlie Schluting defines some terms and considers the arguments.
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "At last year's event participants received Android phones with a free month of service, fueling speculation that this year's attendees may receive some goodies as well."
<b>CIO:</b> "A new open source project, dubbed Opendedup, has appeared with the goal of creating a deduplication-based file system for Linux called SDFS."
Increasingly, enterprises are making data center management choices that lead to a environmentally friendly company. Here are some recent green IT developments.