That's an interesting question and my first instinct is to agree: the code should be open to public scrutiny, otherwise it doesn't constitute evidence. For all we know, it just...

Rudy Panigas (1/30/2008)

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Here's another idea to think about. Instead of a new release every 2 years, how about release a feature pack every 2 years. We keep the base and...

It's true that a nice long release cycle, like 5-6 years, gives customers plenty of predictability around server upgrades etc.

Unfortunately, long...

> I just wonder how many of you would be looking for 2 20-hour jobs. I know I would.

In the UK there's quite a lot of legislation to protect part-time...

AdWords is more or less an OLTP problem and is built on MySQL.

Google probably uses a lot of different databases for different things, but they've shown a certain fondness for MySQL - to the extent of contributing quite a lot of funding...

Hi there DBA-in-training!

#1 - you certainly should be able to add all the articles we feature to your briefcase, regardless of whether they're from SSC or another source. On the...

Hi Chirag

Next time you're writing a message, please scroll down a bit and change the "Topic Subscription Notification Type" to "Do not subscribe".

When you change that, it will become your...

Thanks for the feedback!

If you look near the top of the page, on the menu that includes "Control Panel" etc., there's a new item: "My Posts".

Also, on the vertical...

Whoops - the font names should be surrounded with quotes for it to work. It also applies to font sizes.

We have developed a fix for this, and will apply it...

Sorry - my mistake. It does affect IE too. We have in fact notified our forums software vendor of the issue.

Hi there

Sorry for the inconvenience. This is a limitation of our forum system - it is taking care to strip out HTML tags that shouldn't be allowed in forum posts, but...

Hugo, I completely agree. If republishing content means pretending to be the author, accepting feedback etc., that's really out of order. However, I don't have a problem with sites cleverly...

Oh, sorry, I assumed that SoftLogger worked by consuming RSS feeds as well, in which case it would only get the part of the content that was supposed to be...

What do you think about RSS feed readers then?

I regularly read content from about 25 different bloggers / sites using Google Reader. I get to see the content in full,...