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In this live online event, Sean Hull (Oracle and Open Source) will talk about why MySQL slaves get out of sync with the master, both in terms of things that happen in the application and in MySQL's implementation of statement-based replication. He'll then discuss a method to eliminate the problem by testing and verifying your current setup.

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The Coming Readers' Economy and Data Portability

This is a guest post by Mark Bertils. At the end of last year one event signaled a huge shift in how the book publishing industry will do business. It's...

OOXML and Nicotine

Is Microsoft evil in the way that Big Tobacco is evil? That is the flavour of some comments I have been reading recently: X works for Microsoft therefore that is enough to discredit their opinion on moral grounds alone. But software does not give you cancer.

Why Obama gives geeks hope

For the first time in years, the Mac has been widely publicised as being used in a governmental setting. For the Mac community, this can only mean great things are afoot, regardless of the technology choices made by the new administration in the long run. Indeed, while it is no secret that governments and governmental agencies have dabbled in Mac...

Is Schematron a rules language?

Schematron's assertions are held in rule elements, but is Schematron a rules language at all?

Sosnowski series on schemas and service nexus

Dennis Sosnoski has a good article Schema for Web Services - Part I: Basic Datatypes up at InfoQ. It looks like being a series, and Dennis knows his stuff. It is about some gotchas with data binding.... There are many parts of XSD which don't play well for use in automated data binding systems, but I suspect many of Dennis' gotchas in this article are just intrinsic to exchange rather than being flaws in XSD datatypes, necessarily.

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Matthew Russell at JavaScript/Ajax Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch
Jan 19-23, 2009
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Jan 19-24, 2009
University of Tasmania's Sandy Bay campus
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Jan 26-29, 2009
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