The AP reports an officially unofficial leak from the Obama team that closing Gitmo is a priority for the new administration. Under plans being put together in Obama's camp, some detainees would be released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts. That's good. This bit isn't so good: A third group of detainees — the ones whose cases are most entangled in highly classified information — might have to go before a ...

Take 627 newspaper front pages and arrange them in a way that they can be browsed easily. That’s what Scott Hanselman and Scott Stanfield just did with yesterday’s newspapers at http://bigpicture.... This uses the same Deep Zoom technology in Microsoft Silverlight that Vertigo used to show off the Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia Collection.

I shouldn’t be writing this now. I’m mentally exhausted. On the other hand, the conference is still fresh in my memory, and won’t be so 24 hours from now. William Azaroff posted my key takeaways from the conference, so I won’t rehash that. Check out his blog to see what I had concluded, and to see his presentation. At the risk of offending someone (stop laughing), here are some random thoughts about the conference: Most ...

El proceso de garantización de la consistencia en Oracle es automático y transparente para los usuarios de la base de datos. El resumen es muy sencillo: cuando una operación DML (insert, update, delete o merge) llega a la base de datos, ésta realiza una copia de los datos afectados antes de que sean modificados, guardándolos en el segmento de “undo”. Todos los usuarios que lean información de la base de datos, excepto el que realiza ...

El proceso de garantización de la consistencia en Oracle es automático y transparente para los usuarios de la base de datos. El resumen es muy sencillo: cuando una operación DML (insert, update, delete o merge) llega a la base de datos, ésta realiza una copia de los datos afectados antes de que sean modificados, guardándolos en el segmento de “undo”. Todos los usuarios que lean información de la base de datos, excepto el que realiza ...