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

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline

Smashing Magazine

if the information is read-only or editable); The file size is crucial for people with costly internet, slow connection, or limited local storage. Get the white paper”. A good practice for download links is to show the file format and size. Large preview ). Buy tickets”. Download the recording”. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how it played out. The dominant sentiment in modern-day Europe is anxiety.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

Do configure your servers correctly, especially public Internet-facing ones. Many of 2023’s worst data breaches did not involve malware, but were caused by inadequately stored credentials (e.g., Kubernetes Secrets on public GitHub repos), misconfigured servers (e.g., Do track a software bill of materials for your projects.

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