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Apache has an option called "AllowOverride" which allows you to override some Apache settings via a .htaccess file you can place in a directory. I'll show you why that's a very bad idea.

John T. Chambers, chief executive of Cisco Systems, made one of his classic bombastic predictions Wednesday, claiming that the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment is poised to dominate the construction of cloud computing systems.

A panel of successful entrepreneurs are continuing to answer your questions on setting up and running small companies. Their latest answers are below.

Android tablet project (SDK 3.1+) lessons learned.

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Attila Szegedi talks about performance tuning Java and Scala programs at Twitter: how to approach GC problems, the importance of asynchronous I/O, when to use MySQL/Cassandra/Redis, and much more.