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CouchDB creator distances self from Apache project
CouchDB creator distances self from Apache project: As Couchbase drops its packaged CouchDB NoSQL database offering, the creator of the original project says he and the company are focusing on the blended CouchDB/Membase server and moving away from CouchDB development
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Web servers: nginx overtakes IIS
Web servers: nginx overtakes IIS: Netcraft says, however, that the performance-optimised web server is still behind Microsoft when looking at the 900,000 most active web sites, while Apache continues to lead
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O’Reilly Media book: Make a Mind-Controlled Arduino Robot
Make a Mind-Controlled Arduino Robot: Build a robot that responds to electrical activity in your brain—it’s easy and fun. If you’re familiar with Arduino and have basic mechanical building skills, this book will show you how to construct a robot that plays sounds, blinks lights, and reacts to signals from an affordable electroencephalography (EEG) headband.…
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Microsoft Press book: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice
Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice: Drawing from 30+ years of field experience, with case studies spanning industry, government, and academia, this practical guide illuminates the change-management approaches that lead to successful software process improvement.
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book: SQL and Relational Theory – O’Reilly Media
SQL and Relational Theory: SQL is full of difficulties and traps for the unwary. You can avoid them if you understand relational theory, but only if you know how to put the theory into practice. In this insightful book, author C.J. Date explains relational theory in depth, and demonstrates through numerous examples and exercises how…
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the Tetragrammaton YHWH aka Yahweh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yahweh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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euphemism – Wiktionary
euphemism – Wiktionary The English Wiktionary article explains: (uncountable) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive or less vulgar than the word or phrase it replaces. (countable) (rhetoric) A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way. I have only known…
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“what the heck?” – Wiktionary
what the heck – Wiktionary I seriously hoped, this would be a much nicer phrase than WTF, but it’s not; its wiktionary article explains: (euphemistic) A “softer” way to say “what the hell?“. For someone with a vague religious background, replacing “what the heck” with the well-known WTF is like “driving out demons by the power of…
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Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia