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So your fridge starts to break down and it warns you beforehand so you can have it fixed before all your food is spoiled. Instead you decide to order a new fridge and because they can predict someone your neighborhood is likely going to buy 'this' fridge, you'll have it installed 30 minutes after you clicked the "buy" button.
Yeah, nobody would ever want this... 
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Hewlett-Packard reportedly held talks with relative newcomers Apple and Google in recent months to create a new type of "Enterprise Siri" system that would allow its corporate customers to search their document and data troves using their voice. Hopefully it will come with an industrial strength profanity filter, it's going to need it
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Even now some people think I'm a bit weird - I can imagine what they will think of me if I start talking to my computer to find some documentation...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Hopefully powered by Roger's Profanisaurus[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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With Azure Automation, a new capability in Microsoft Azure, Dev/Ops and IT professionals are able to create and run runbooks to automate repetitive and complex tasks on their Azure resources. Batch files...in THE CLOUD!
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UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. Helping solve the shortage of database choices for {some period of time I'm too lazy to look up}
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Helping solve the
... problem of what to do with that 8GB of RAM.
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You know, these sort of things wouldn't even come into existence if it weren't for open source. Who in their right mind would actually buy this? But no, because of open source, we can now freely acquire such drivel, and there are people actually proud to produce such drivel and market it under the "we're cool because it's open source" banner. 
[edit]Wow, I just looked at the forum[^] The bug reports are nightmarish. [/edit]
Marc
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Man I am totally with you on that!
That said the open source competition is a good push towards innovation too! 
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Oh yeah. MUMPS, ehm OpenM, is a great programming platform which includes a highly modern hierarchical database. Its usabilty, scalability, maintenance-friendliness etc. have been proved during decades by health care providers, authorities, and other modern enterprises. 
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I came across this nearly a month ago as I was looking for a database to store session information in a web server I've been developing. I happened to be googling SQLite when UnQLite came up in the search results so I decided I would take a look at it. It has a pretty good key/value api and a built-in scripting language based on SpiderMonkey (Mozilla JavaScript) which allows you to store documents as JSON objects. There are some weaknesses with the document store but most of those you can get around. I've already done a proof of concept integration with my web server and I am looking at other uses for it.
m.bergman
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
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Microsoft has postponed the implementation of Java blocking within Internet Explorer (IE), saying it will now give customers a little less than another month to deal with the unexpected change. This is why we can't have nice things
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W00t! More popups to ignore. I love 'em.
Thank you, Microsoft. You are the greatest of all the most terrible cyrptozoologic creatures -- Sasquatch, Godzilla, Werewolf all rolled up into one -- and and I don't use your browser daily.
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IE = Isolating Everyone?
IE = Ignorant Evolution?
IE = I Evade?
IE = Innovative Errors?
Just a thought.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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IE = How to please everyone! (Hint: you can't!)
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To develop great webpages, you need coding expertise, as well as the right tools to find and debug issues that inevitably crop up. This update provides substantial improvements to the F12 developer tools, including both features and bug fixes for the F12 UI, console, DOM explorer, Debugger, Emulation tool, UI Responsiveness, and Memory profiling tools. A color picker! My life is complete
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ORMs, like everything in this world, have a time and a place. Figure out where it makes sense to use them and use something else when ORMs don’t make sense. The latest volley in the ORM battle lands right in the middle
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Yawn. Years ago I looked at ORM's and thought, geez, this is absurd, and simply skipped the whole thing by writing my own automated SQL generator. Amazingly, the rest of the world seems not to have realized that to do this, you don't need a freaking class for every single table/view in your database, and you certainly don't need to a class to simply query some data, ship it to the UI with some presentation translation, and then persist the changes back to the DB. Argh. I get so frustrated with the archaic "state of the art" of programming.
Marc
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I cannot believe it!! A balanced answer to the ORM wars.
Yes, ORMs are not the panacea that you didn't think they were. 
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newton.saber wrote: are not the panacea
Indeed, just as the plague is not really the best solution to over-population.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: over-population
That is the perfect example, because ORMs basically solve a problem that no one really had.
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newton.saber wrote: no one really had
To be fair, I suspect that some newbies with no database experience may have had that problem, but the better solution is to teach them the proper way.
Newbie: I want to drive from point A to point B, but I don't know how to drive.
Expert: Take the bus.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I suspect that some newbies with no database experience may have had that problem
Agree, 100%.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: Expert: Take the bus.
LOL!! Great analogy and analogies always win.
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Spencer Schneidenbach wrote: Figure out where it makes sense to use them and use something else when ORMs don’t make sense.
That's backward; ORMs should be the last resort, not the first.
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Now that the technologies behind our servers and networks have stabilized, IT can look forward to a different kind of constant change. "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."
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