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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. Jump to table of contents ?.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ The larger sector sizes involve newer technology and require API changes at the operating system level. In versions ​​ earlier than ​​ SQL Server 2004 SP4, SQL Server latch enforcement protection involved more protection transitions.

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