How are you testing your mobile applications? With the rapid increase this is a growing requirement. Depending on your implementation some of the testing can be performed using emulators, etc. Ultimately you have to test on target devices. Are you using any automated software? How about unit testing? Perhaps, with applications using multiple layers, or a hybrid approach, there are […]
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(Santiago Ortega and Bobby Woolf) Although largely self-contained, you still need to connect IBM PureApplication System to your data center network so that your external users can connect to, manage, and deploy workloads onto the system, as well as connect to those workloads and use applications run
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Store UUID in an optimized way
(Karthik Appigatla) A few years ago Peter Zaitsev, in a post titled “To UUID or not to UUID,” wrote: “There is timestamp based part in UUID which has similar properties to auto_increment and which could be used to have values generated at same point in time physically local in BTREE index.”
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(Chris Webb) It’s a general rule of the internet that, whenever you have a cool idea, a few minutes spent on your favourite search engine reveals that someone else has had the idea before you. In my case, when I first saw the functionality in Power Query for working with binary files I wondered whet
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