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•  More Top WordPress Plugins for Social Media 06 Feb 2012, 15:00

  Jetpack by WordPress.com Think of Jetpack as a supercharged plugin packed with various features to truly help you maximize your site's potential. While many plugins may offer one simple, yet important piece of functionality, Jetpack offers a ton of them. As for the plugin's social media perks, there's a Twitter Widget that displays a users latest updates. The Gravatar Hovercards feature adds small popups in the comments section that give a sneak peek into user Gravatar profiles. Easier sharing is enabled through WP.me Shortlinks. Want to implement embedding functionality? Jetpack will do...

  

•  Oracle Announces New MySQL Specialization 01 Feb 2012, 18:57

  The Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized program supplies partners with a host of resources to help develop, implement, and sell Oracle products. Over time, the program has been enhanced through the addition of Specializations that allow partners to differentiate themselves from competitors once they demonstrate an outstanding level of competency, expertise, and success. Tomas Ulin, Oracle's MySQL VP of engineering, commented on the new specialization: Oracle continues to innovate across the MySQL product family to address the evolving needs of both our end-user and partner community. MySQL co...

  

•  Oracle Releases Communications Data Model 11.2.5 31 Jan 2012, 17:40

  Oracle first introduced its Big Data Appliance as well as the NoSQL database at the company's OpenWorld user conference last October. According to analyst David Menninger of Ventana Research, the appliance was created to manage and analyze data sets deemed to be too large for storing in standard databases. The Big Data Appliance boasts a lineup including Sun server hardware (18 Linux-based x86 Sun servers with 216 processor cores, 648TB raw disk storage, 864GB working memory), Oracle NoSQL database, Oracle's Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, and an open-source distribution of R. George Lumpkin, Or...

  

•  PHP Closures as View Helpers: Lazy-Loading File Data 30 Jan 2012, 15:00

  As an important part of PHP 5.3's new features, closures have quickly made a mark on the language's field. This is due to their versatile nature, which allows programmers to utilize them in a wide variety of use cases and situations. They not only yield great results when processing array elements in all sorts of clever ways; it's fairly easy to get excellent results with them in the object-oriented programming arena as well. The best way to show you how using anonymous functions can help you to develop more efficient OO applications is with some functional, hands-on examples. With this idea i...

  

•  Constant Contact Chooses SkySQL for MySQL Support 26 Jan 2012, 17:45

  Specializing in online marketing through email, surveys, social media, and more, Constant Contact's customer base extends all over the globe. With so many customers depending on the company for their online marketing needs, Constant Contact was in need of the proper support to accompany its move towards open source with MySQL. SkySQL was eventually selected for a variety of reasons, and has helped Constant Contact with building and deploying a sturdy MySQL database architecture. In addition, SkySQL has aided Constant Contact with training 10 database administrators over the course of severa...