(Lenz Grimmer) Linden Lab is the company behind the virtual world simulation Second Life (SL) in which users (the residents) can freely roam around and actively participate in the creation and development of the virtual world and their own appearance (their avatars). To facilitate this, Second Life
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(Daniel Rubio) Executing individual pieces of software to perform as one unit of work is an area consistently tackled by many software platforms and an issue that is central to many business processes. The all encompassing term for this subject is named “transactions.” In the upcoming paragraphs, we
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