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Asynchronous Programming We have been talking about the expansion of the number of CPUs in a single server, and the impact it has on software and software strategies. I started off talking about parallel programming. As David mentioned in the reader’s feedback in the newsletter yesterday, the biggest issue with parallel threads is when you have to share memory. One […]

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An RDF based Permissions Model

(Kurt Cagle) One of the primary challenges in putting together a good content management system is building a decent permissions model. Whether a particular user or process is able to perform some kind of an action upon a resource or not can be remarkably difficult to establish, especially when ther