After a hiatus from reading the book “Seven Database in Seven Weeks”, I finished it over the summer. The book had some new concepts to me that were not as easy to keep readings the “Seven Languages…” book. However, once I got into the habit of digesting it a little at a time, I was very glad I did. It contains a lot of valuable information on the landscape of modern day databases.

The databases covered in the book were...

These are some tracks from the Torres - Sprinter album and In the Valley Below - The Belt albums that I really enjoy.

• In the Valley Below - Peaches
  
• Torres - Strange Hellos

I recently read “Seven Languages in Seven Week” [Pragmatic, Bruce Tate, 2010], and found it very interesting. This is not a book about spoken languages, but computer languages.

As someone who has worked mostly with PHP, JavaScript and Java in my professional career over the last ten years, it is both refreshing and needed to see alternative programming languages and paradigms...

Onward through the Rolling Stone Top 500 albums of all time list from 50-26th, their are some very strong albums here.

I have been continuing through the Rolling Stone Top 500 albums of all time list at a steady pace. Here are my comments on numbers 75-51...