‘To spur creativity, Google management created the concept of “20 percent time,” the portion of employees’ schedules that they could commit to entirely self-directed projects. At Valve, it’s more like 100 percent […]
Just a week ago an appeals court reversed the conviction of Sergey Aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs programmer found guilty of stealing code from the bank
“His services were in demand at Goldman, which […]
If you’re impatient, you can skip the introductory remarks. But, if you are interested in the political economy (so to speak) of Java, they’re worth reading.
Check this out: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/. I find it interesting that Facebook uses such a wide variety of different technologies (they use Erlang for their chat service!). I think this is characteristic of the 21st century computing environment. Here at CIS we use Tomcat and WebSphere, open source Apache,…[Read more]
Just to clarify: Berlin discovered that his SMTP server only permits outbound, unauthenticated mail to recipients in its own domain. He was using a test account outside of the server's domain, that's why it required authentication. When he…
