In the Star Trek Book of Management, there are two approaches to big data decision making: The Kirk way and the Spock way. Which type are you?

This is part 2 of the Laravel 4 tutorial on how to build a simple website with backend. This part will get into the core of the Laravel 4 back end and explain everything you need to build a back end side of the website.

Games have come a long way since when they cost $80 and came in cardboard boxes with terrible cover art. The mechanism of funding (Kickstarter), the development process (ranging from tiny one-person indie shops to global studios), the medium (disc to download to app to web), and their business models all have evolved rapidly over the past 3-4 years.

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Read about the different kinds of virtualization and how each one can affect network analysis.

Lightbox has always been one of the great method to display images without having to refresh a page. Nowadays, with the booming of responsive websites, lightboxes also have evolved to adapt nicely with the trendy responsive layout.

This week Yahoo has made a deal with Tumblr that Yahoo would acquire Tumblr with $1.1 billion. The reason why Yahoo wants to acquire Tumblr is still not so clear. It may be because they don't want to miss the chance again after they missed the chance to acquire Facebook. But anyway, let's take a tour to the office environment of Tumblr.

The basic function of a calculator is computing, which can be as simple as the four arithmetic operations and also as complex as the calculation for the next move in chess with Deep Blue. Among these, desktop data calculation tool for the business users to handle the occasional, complex, and business-related data computation. Such tools are named as the desktop BI software. For example, a stock analyst is required to recommend some stocks to the clients urgently. Among all calculations involved, the analyst needs to find shares from more than 20 daily trading stocks which had risen on 5 consecutive days in previous month.

The crazy kids at Fogbeam Labs break down the trend towards projects in NLP, Semantic Web, Big Data and related fields moving to the ASF, and posit that when we get a true "Star Trek Computer" it will probably be an ASF hosted project.

While "Performance Management" *sounds* straightforward, its true meaning needs to account for subtle shifts in technology that we're only beginning to understand. Consider, for example, the impact on your own career as virtualized and cloud-based servers run at higher and higher utilizations, that is, with less margin for error. Your only hope to keep up is more automation.

Programmers generally recognize that SQL can be optimized: experts often rewrite queries to take only a fraction of the time of their originals. It's not just *queries*, though: database writes deserve attention along with reads. Be on the lookout for ways to improve updates and inserts, along with retrievals.

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Here’s a fact I don’t think a lot of people know. Or rather they do know, but haven’t thought about:

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