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The History of Yahoo! – How It All Started…
Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. … Continue reading
10 must-visit places for IT pros
1. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) NASA’s John F Kennedy Space Centre tops the list of must-visit places for techies. Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center manages and operates America’s astronaut launch facilities. KSC’s Visitor Complex provides public tours of … Continue reading
Designing the Star Schema Database
by Craig Utley Introduction Creating a Star Schema Database is one of the most important, and sometimes the final, step in creating a data warehouse. Given how important this process is to building a data warehouse, it is important to … Continue reading
World’s first Laptop
Just came across this picture of the world’s first laptop, manufactured by Toshiba in 1985 and was called the T1100.It sported a 256KB RAM, had a QWERTZ keyboard, a 4.77MHz Intel Processor and weighed 4.1 kg. Not bad for 1985 … Continue reading
The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming
These are The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (From a classic book written in the early 1970s called, "The Psychology of Computer Programming" by Gerald Weinberg) but most of the recommendations are applicable in a wider context.1. Understand and … Continue reading
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Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS
Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer at AT&T subsidiary Bell … Continue reading
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