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Business in the 21st century: Stay tuned for brave new world
Comment As Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle point out in their white paper Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On: "As is so often the case, the future isn't clearest in the pronouncements of big companies but in the clever... [11 Aug 2009]
Photos: The top tech Twitterers
Photo There's also plenty of tech entrepreneurs and evangelists, including chairman of Virgin Group Richard Branson, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Tim O'Reilly and Jimmy Wales, founder of... [23 Mar 2009]
Prime Indian Securities Trading Site Moves to Web 2.0, Achieves Lead Generation Boost
White Paper However, to accomplish this, a Web site revamp incorporating real-time content sharing and exciting collaboration services based on Web 2.0 - a term popularized by IT media guru Tim O'Reilly - was needed. [11 Jan 2008]
Linux in a Windows World: Using NT Domains for Linux Authentication
White Paper If the existing network uses an NT domain or an Active Directory domain, the user may want to tap into the existing domain controller for Linux authentication. For instance, he or she might want a Linux POP server to use the existing... [24 Oct 2007]
Web Site Measurement Hacks: Best Practices for Web Measurement
White Paper Web measurement is not a silver bullet; in fact, outside the realm of law enforcement and werewolf hunting, there are no silver bullets. In order to be successful with the web measurement program, the user has to treat it like any other... [24 Oct 2007]
Unicode Explained: Character Sets and Encodings
White Paper The world runs on a wide variety of character sets. This paper describes the many encodings for these sets and lists the characters in them. The paper also describes how conversions between the encodings can be performed, either with the... [24 Oct 2007]
MySQL in a Nutshell: Date and Time Functions
White Paper The ability to record dates and times in a MySQL database is a very common requirement. This paper presents the date and time functions for MySQL. Date and time data comprises only numeric strings, so it can be stored in a regular... [24 Oct 2007]
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell: Configuring and Building
White Paper The kernel configuration is kept in a file called .config in the top directory of the kernel source tree. If one has just expanded the kernel source code, there will be no .config file, so it needs to be created. [24 Oct 2007]
Web Site Cookbook: Page Design and Navigation
White Paper Color, layout, and navigation are what usually come to mind when one thinks about web design. With the web server set up and the site-building plan ready to go, the user is surely ready to turn the attention to more artistic pursuits. [24 Oct 2007]
MySQL Stored Procedure Programming: Error Handling
White Paper The perfect programmer, living in a perfect world, would always write programs that anticipate every possible circumstance. Those programs would either always work correctly, or fail "Gracefully" by providing comprehensive diagnostic... [24 Oct 2007]
Understanding MySQL Internals: Client/Server Communication
White Paper This paper discusses the details of the client/server communication in MySQL. The goal is to give the user the ability to look at a binary dump of the client/ server communication and be able to understand what happened. [24 Oct 2007]
Understanding Linux Network Internals: Frame Reception
White Paper This paper discusses about frame reception, where the hardware uses an interrupt to signal the CPU about the availability of the frame. The IRQ number causes the right handler to be invoked. The handler is typically a function within the... [24 Oct 2007]
Introduction
White Paper They make great desktop replacements and are often used as "Media center" PCs. For many computer enthusiasts, the phrase small form factor brings to mind cube-shaped systems about the same size as a stack of books. [24 Oct 2007]
UML 2 in a Nutshell: Use Case Diagrams
White Paper Use cases are a way to capture system functionality and requirements in UML. Use case diagrams consist of named pieces of functionality (use cases), the persons or things invoking the functionality (actors), and possibly the elements... [24 Oct 2007]
Network Security Hacks: Firewalling
White Paper When designing a network, it's often desirable to define policies governing how and where certain vital network services can be accessed. The firewall is a key technology that is instrumental in enforcing these policies and can allow... [24 Oct 2007]
