storage
I've always been leery of RAID on the desktop. But on the server, RAID is a definite must: "RAID" is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives. The different schemes/architectures
xml
Everywhere I look, programmers and programming tools seem to have standardized on XML. Configuration files, build scripts, local data storage, code comments, project files, you name it -- if it's stored in a text file and needs to be retrieved and parsed, it's probably XML. I
backups
Jamie Zawinski's public service backup announcement starts off with a bang: Option 1: Learn not to care about your data. Don't save any old email, use a film camera, and only listen to physical CDs and not MP3s. If you have no possessions, you have nothing
storage
I recently upgraded my home system with one of the 750 gigabyte Seagate perpendicular drives [http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html] in order to consolidate a number of hard drives I had on my server. 750 gigabytes is a tremendous amount of storage space in
software development concepts
In The Fallacy of the Data Layer, Rocky Lhotka makes a case for something I’ve come to believe as absolute truth: It is commonly held as a truth that applications have a UI layer, a business layer and a data layer. In most of my presentations and writing I