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Classic WTF: The Virtudyne Saga

The Daily WTF

It was simple: develop an internet/intranet based Office/Collaboration system that would deliver "90% of functionality that 90% of [Microsoft Office] users use." He convinced The Founder that, with a handful of programmers helping him, he could develop a client/server Microsoft Office Killer using Visual Basic 6.

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Roles and Responsibilities

The Programmer's Paradox

For this post I thought I would just list out the various roles that I’ve encountered while developing software. Over the course of that last twenty-five years -- including my co-op student days -- I’ve worked alongside or discussed development issues with a huge number of people. have to be done underneath.

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Comparing Database Management Systems: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and others

Altexsoft

Since NoSQL databases allow for reserving various data types together and scaling it by growing around multiple servers, their never-decreasing popularity is quite reasonable. Also, it’s a great option for startups with sprint-based Agile development to build MVP. We’ll discuss such NoSQL databases as: MongoDB.