Michael Marr

The SQL vs. NoSQL debate is quickly becoming a rite of passage for database administrators and geeks alike. Jeff Cogswell recently contributed some fuel to the fire over at Slashdot. Although the commentors on the article focused on the short …

An often useful query in SQL is SELECT … INTO. With SELECT … INTO OUTFILE, results can be directly placed in a file as comma separated values. Once in the common CSV format, your results can be pulled into other …

I have somewhat of an unwarranted gambling degenerate reputation here at the WebProNews offices. It may or may not have to do with the time I was pushing a double digit debt in lunches from various bets. However, I would …

The 2012 Google Code Jam is underway! As a participant in this year’s event, I’ll be live blogging throughout the entire competition (or as far as I make it, anyways). If you’ve read this much, and still have no idea …

Network Administrators play a delicate game of balancing uptime and security. Increased security often comes at the sacrifice of accessibility and/or performance. Steps to increase accessibility and uptime often create security issues. Thus, measures that can potentially bolster performance, uptime, …

I like awesome stuff. Most of us do. However, there has been an unfortunate trend in the Linux community as of late. The major distributions have been gravitating towards a Linux that goes for awesome a little too hard. Gnome …

If I had a quarter for every time I’ve had to convert a big bulk of XML formatted data into some other sort of datatype, well then, I’d have a few dollars. However, these far and few between projects have …

I have a total success kid moment every time I switch one of our Apache HTTP servers to NGINX. Without any significant tweaking to NGINX, we take a highly configured and pageview hardened Apache server and increase its capacity ten …

This might be the best thing to happen to Casinos since Robert Deniro and Joe Pesci. According to eGaming Review (content is behind a firewall), Facebook could be offering real money gambling in the UK in early 2012. Zynga is …

Last Friday, the FBI seized the domains for the top online poker sites PokerStars, FullTiltPoker, and AbsolutePoker. Although secondary to the immediate response and information pouring out from Twitter on the subject, the seizure received considerable media attention from both national …

One of the leading scientific agencies in the United States, if not the world, clearly values open source software. WebProNews reported on their partnership with RackSpace in July 2010 seeking to expand upon RackSpace’s technology used for cloud hosting and …

Scammers utilize an array of tricks to get you to perform actions that only benefit them. Hooking to popular topics is one of their tools, such as posting tweets and/or fake news surrounding trending topics on twitter. Monitor for a …

Depending upon your location in the world, each month has its own intricacies and highlights. October may bring back memories (or lack thereof) from Oktoberfest. December is often synonymous with frenzy of holiday demands and travel. March, in the United …