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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. Johnson, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Surveys Volume 34 Issue 3, September 2002. Bar-Yam, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. Araújo, K. Gray and David R.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Fairly rapidly, text messaging (SMS, short for “Short Message Service”) was added, as it was baked into the network itself, originally as a way to send messages internally or for testing. Many phones come preinstalled with common apps such as social networking, email, and maps, or with shortcuts to the browser.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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