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In Finland there has recently been quite a lot of public discussion about open data in daily news papers (http://bit.ly/sWb6ZA). The government has also agreed that all official da…

The graph in the middle of the article forecasts that the number of mobile gadgets will almost double the number of PCs in two years.

A concise presentation of most of the core features of Objective-C. It lacks protocols, however. Apple has a bunch of good tutorials, for example this one: http://developer.apple.c…

The article illustrates the well-known mantra "to survive, you must adapt to your environment". In the IT industry, incrementally developing your existing businesses will quickly l…

It depends on the application(s) you wish to run on AWS. If your EC2 instance runs an HTTP server that is backed by an external database like RDS, your I/O bottlenecks is not the E…

That's correct. The problem is that the EC2 internal IPs change even though the instance would have an Elastic IP. EC2 instances use internal IPs when communicating with other EC2 …

We configure our production servers and push new releases there with Puppet. I like Puppet: its fail-safe and reliable. There is, however, one thing I don't fancy in it. Puppet doe…

The article quite well describes some of the valuable features of a good login UI. The login page is (often) the first place a user encounter your site. If that page creates a sens…

Recently Amazon made Oracle database available an AWS service. What advantages Oracle databases have over MySQL? How about disadvantages (excluding the pricing, of course)?

Jeff, are there any plans to support mailbox provisioning? At the moment I'm using Rackspace's REST API to create a mailbox for our new customers. I like their API, but I don't lik…

At the moment I'm able to launch applications in the US East region only. When will the other regions support Elastic Beanstalk?

Martin Fowler has a good article on the maturity levels of a REST API: http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm... That article provides useful ideas and target…

Can you please provide a reference?

While it is true that you cannot add new ones or remove existing ones, you can modify an existing security group of a running instance: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1145?_encodin…

I have been practicing ashtanga yoga 4-6 times a week for several years now. I must say that it suits well to a programmer. Even though I sit by the desk about 8 hours a day, I nev…

I remember when I purchased a shareware version of the first Doom. I ordered it by sending a post card to a Finnish game retailer. After a week or two, I received a few diskettes. …

This phenomenon of not remembering what I just read is familiar to me from the moments where I'm about to take an exam after a course. I usually go through the course material two …

This means that Oracle chose Mark Reinhold's plan B ( http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/rethinking_jdk7 ). From the point of view of a web application developer, JDK 7 is not very inte…

Even though Atwood refers to version numbers as (false) indicators of progress, he has an important point: the earlier you release, the sooner you'll be able to make crucial correc…

A year ago I took the course on calculus and group theory. I worked on the course 15 to 20 hours per week for three months and received a good grade. The course was worth the effor…

I have always wondered why people keep so many browser tabs open. From my point of view, open tabs represent unfinished tasks or web pages I should go back to as soon as possible. …

I have a master's degree in social science. My minor is in business administration. In addition to that degree, I have also studied about a third of a BSc degree in computer scienc…