• Akamai, Vubiquity Partner for Content-as-a-Service Offering

  Global provider of multiplatform video services Vubiquity and Akamai (AKAM) announced a partnership designed to help network service providers or content owners efficiently and cost-effectively launch over-the-top (OTT) video services. Read More

• Blimp Spreads Encouragement, Shame in Silicon Valley Flyover

  Greenpeace's campaign for renewably-powered Internet took to the skies over Silicon Valley Thursday, conducting a "message blimp" flyover of major tech company headquarters. Read More

• Big Data News: Hortonworks, MapR, SAS

  Hortonworks innovates the latest open enterprise Hadoop with release 2.1 of its Hortonworks Data Platform, MapR expands big data search with Elasticsearch, and SAS updates its Master Data Management and SAS Federation Server software. Read More

• Leslie Lamport to Programmers: You're Doing it Wrong

  Famous computer scientist  Leslie Lamport  is definitely not a  worse is better kind of guy. In  Computation and State Machines  he wants to make the case that to get better programs we need to teach programmers to think better. And programmers will think better when they learn to think in…

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• Detect proxies with icanhazproxy

  You can already detect proxy servers using icanhazip.com by accessing the service on port 80 , 81 , and 443 . If you compare your results and you see different IP addresses, there's most likely a proxy in the way. To make things easier, I've launched icanhazproxy.com . It's available on…

• Partial commits in GitHub for Mac

  Sometimes when you're in the zone, you get a ton of work done before you have a chance to pause and commit. You want to break the commit down to describe the logical changes you've made, and it doesn't always break down cleanly file by file. You want to select some parts of your changes to…

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• Use Oracle GoldenGate with Amazon RDS for Oracle Database

  Many organizations face the need to move transactional data from one location to another location. As organizations continue to make the cloud a central part of their overall IT architecture, this need seems to grow in tandem with the size,...