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As of today, altavista.com has been officially shut down and is just another redirect to your “local” Yahoo! starting page. Who cares? Not many. Which possibly is one…

I’ve been for quite a while into what they use to call “NoSQL databases” these days, even while we still heavily rely upon infrastructure which is anything else…

Soundtrack: Bartois – “Blossom” – exploring an abandoned entertainment park, discovering a quiet place right in front of a stage (abandoned, too, of course). There’s a certain quietness…

If you think Facebooks acquisition of Instagram involved an incredibly large amount of money, think again: As of yesterday, Yahoo! has announced to acquire Tumblr for an amount…

Soundtrack: Sava Marinkovic – “Argemone” (the full album, highly recommended, can be found at acustronica). Inspired by the perception of flowers, blossoms, trees making their ways through urban…

So much for that. Again. A while ago and in quite a verbose way I announced my move to KDE 4.x, specifically in the Kubuntu 13.04 distribution which…

Though I mostly use (server-sided) Java technology in my day-to-day work, I am then and now intrigued by Python as a straightforward, accessible scripting language which is easy…

By now it should be known we’re notorious users of SAP MaxDB in a “non-SAP environment”, and, for that matter, we have done rather well throughout the last…