Robert X. Cringely (the pseudonym not the registered trademark) writes in his weekly column, “Patently Absurd: Patent Reform Legislation in Congress Amounts to Little More Than a “Get Out of Jail Free” Card for Microsoft.”
Late last month, shortly before the U.S. Congress shut down for its summer recess, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Intellectual Property [...]
Chris Date has an interview over on the O’Reilly site that’s well worth the time to read. A favorite quote, one of many:
To a first approximation, “object/relational” just means the domains over which relations are defined can be of arbitrary complexity. As a consequence, we can have attributes of relations–or columns of tables, if you [...]
I took the MySQL Core Certification exam yesterday, and passed. It was a tough exam, a bit too picky about edge cases, I think, but I passed. The NDA pretty much forbids me saying more about the exam. Fair enough. The exam is only valid if the Q&A aren’t published, otherwise, the value of the [...]
