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To understand why NoSQL is important to you as an app developer, let’s consider the use cases for some of these features: <ul> <li> Frequently-written, rarely read statistical data (for example, a web hit counter) should use an in-memory key/value store like <a href="http://code.

And just because of the simple fact that you are human, you find yourself heir to an inherent unsatisfactoriness in life which simply will not go away. You can suppress it from your awareness for a time.

Wow, Talk about false perceptions. This was one of the things that I had taken for granted for so long that it was very surprising for me to ready today that China is not the world's largest manufacturer.

Sometimes a you come across a tool that just makes you think why you never used it before, I ran across one such tool last month, it's called soapUI (http://www.

Recently I had to work on a Java based rule modeling tool that was built on Java/Eclipse. The tool was pushing both eclipse and the JVM to the limits in terms of memory and I was getting a lot of OutOfMemory exceptions and out of heap space errors, usually these can be fixed by increasing the default limits.

Tools don't matter I don't use vim or emacs, but for some reason whenever I used to read a vim or emacs article or blog post, I used to download, install and spend the rest of the day reading books, manuals and playing with the editors.

Recently I was reviewing some code written by a new programmer, this person had demonstrated good knowledge of his domain and was quite well regarded by everyone. However when I looked at his code I saw a familiar pattern that I had seen before which I like to call the “Enlightened Newbie Syndrome” (ENS).

The launch of Windows Azure has coincided with the launch of the entire cloud computing initiative from Microsoft which makes a lot of business sense but it also makes it hard to differntiate the individual parts of the initiative, here’s my understanding so far.

I downloaded the Windows Azure SDK today and was going through the quick starts from MSDN , the quickstarts mention that you need SQL Server Express 2005/2008 to run the samples, but I only had SQL Server 2008 developer edition installed.

Last week I saw a wrap up from cedric’s coding challenge on his blog, the problem looked simple enough, “write a counter function that counts from 1 to max but only returns numbers whose digits don’t repeat”.