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Invoking Perl Subroutines and Functions
Posted: February 29th, 2012, 10:00am MST
Invoking a Subroutine The conventional way to invoke a function is to follow the function name with parentheses. This invokes the example_subroutine() function: example_subroutine(); If the function takes arguments (more on passing arguments later in this chapter), then drop them within the parentheses: example_subroutine('Perl is', 'my favorite', $language); Let's look at a complete example. It's traditional for programs to tell you their version and name either when they start up or when you ask them with a special option. It's also convenient to put the code that prints this infor... -
Android Slipping in App War versus Apple
Posted: February 28th, 2012, 8:02am MST
Flurry, a company that specializes in the analysis of mobile data, recently released the results of a study that details a potential lapse in Android's app production. When compared to January 2011, last month saw fewer Android apps come to market than their Apple counterparts. For each Android app released, three Apple apps were developed. Just a year ago, the results were more positive for Google, as two Android apps were created for every three Apple apps. Peter Farago, Flurry's VP of marketing, summed up the results by saying, We saw a greater migration to iOS. It's worth mentioning ... -
Jelastic Java PaaS Availability and Pricing Announced
Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 8:07am MST
Jelastic COO Dmitry Sotnikov discussed the announcement: Since we publicly launched our beta in October last year, pricing and commercial availability have been the most popular questions we were getting from our users. Today we got to the major milestone with our first two partners - ServInt in the US and dogado in Europe - publicly announced commercial availability timeframe as well as revolutionary utility billing approach for the service. This is a major step in accomplishing our vision of zero-lock-in standards-based PaaS available to our users around the world. ServInt COO Christian D... -
Oracle Releases MySQL Cluster 7.2
Posted: February 20th, 2012, 6:00am MST
Customers seeking flexibility get that and more with MySQL Cluster 7.2, as its new Memcached API offers both SQL and NoSQL access. This gives customers the best of both worlds, so to speak, allowing them to conveniently execute key value operations and complex queries all from the same database. Scalability has been enhanced in various ways, beginning with enhanced active/active replication that makes it easier for developers to detect and resolve conflicts across multiple clusters and eliminates the need for timestamp columns in applications. MySQL Cluster 7.2's multi-site clusters allo... -
Cloudera Named Enterprise Hadoop Leader
Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:18am MST
Forrester's report described why it chose Cloudera as the leader in the enterprise Hadoop market: Cloudera is a well-established startup among pure-play vendors in the emerging Hadoop solution market. Its core open source product, Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH), has strong uptake among many early adopters and is popular with cloud/SaaS providers that have built Hadoop-based services. Cloudera has software, cloud/SaaS, and appliance offerings, and a substantial and growing professional services force focused on Hadoop training and consulting. While the free Cloudera Dis... -
Apple and Google Battle to Clean Up App Markets
Posted: February 12th, 2012, 10:03pm MST
A post on Touch Arcade, a forum dedicated to gaming and apps for the iOS platform, has caused Apple to release a warning to developers engaged in the practice of artificially inflating their app rankings. One anonymous developer used a Touch Arcade posting to claim that a firm offered him a top 25 App Store ranking in exchange for $5,000. The firm solicited the unnamed developer by showcasing a strong history of top app rankings and even went as far to detail how they achieved such success. The developer wrote: I was totally shocked when I heard that there were eight apps in the top 25 wer... -
Subroutines and Functions in Perl
Posted: February 10th, 2012, 6:00am MST
When programming, there will naturally be activities we will want to do again and again: adding up the values in an array, stripping extraneous blank spaces from a string, getting infor mation into a hash in a particular format, and so on. It would be tedious to write out the code for each of these little processes every time we need to use one, and maintaining each code segment would be horrific: if there's a bug in the way we've coded the activity, we'll have to go through and find each one of them and fix it. It would be better if we could define a particular process just once, and then be ... -
Oracle Releases Communications Network Integrity 7.1
Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:54am MST
Described as a modular component within Oracle's Network Resource Management solution, Oracle Communications Network Integrity allows network operators to synchronize and maintain current data in their network inventory systems. The solution also supplies deployment options that are either integrated with Oracle or third-party platforms. Oracle Communications Network Integrity 7.1 comes with several improvements that add to its impressive pre-existing list of features. Version 7.1's enhancements begin with circuit and service assimilation and discrepancy detection capabilities for optical and ... -
Xeround Releases Free Version of MySQL Cloud Database
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:52am MST
Xeround Releases Free Version of its Popular Cloud Database for MySQL Applications Xeround, a provider of database software for public and private clouds, recently announced the availability of Xeround FREE, a no-cost edition of its elastic and highly available cloud database solution for MySQL applications. With Xeround FREE, MySQL users can employ the cloud database solution's functionality with ease, as no installation, configuration, or maintenance of a MySQL database in the cloud is required. Regarded as the only true native cloud database, Xeround FREE was developed specifically to avo... -
More Top WordPress Plugins for Social Media
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:00am MST
Jetpack by WordPress.com Think of Jetpack as a supercharged plugin packed with various features to truly help you maximize your site's potential. While many plugins may offer one simple, yet important piece of functionality, Jetpack offers a ton of them. As for the plugin's social media perks, there's a Twitter Widget that displays a users latest updates. The Gravatar Hovercards feature adds small popups in the comments section that give a sneak peek into user Gravatar profiles. Easier sharing is enabled through WP.me Shortlinks. Want to implement embedding functionality? Jetpack will do... -
Oracle Announces New MySQL Specialization
Posted: February 1st, 2012, 9:57am MST
The Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized program supplies partners with a host of resources to help develop, implement, and sell Oracle products. Over time, the program has been enhanced through the addition of Specializations that allow partners to differentiate themselves from competitors once they demonstrate an outstanding level of competency, expertise, and success. Tomas Ulin, Oracle's MySQL VP of engineering, commented on the new specialization: Oracle continues to innovate across the MySQL product family to address the evolving needs of both our end-user and partner community. MySQL co...