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

Adrian Cockcroft

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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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? These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Large preview ).

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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