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

Adrian Cockcroft

After the success of the books that Brian and I had written, which we got a cut of royalties for, our management decided that we should write books as our day job, and we assembled a team of experts to write up best practice guides as books in the Sun Blueprints series. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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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? And today, we still have type in a digital context, but it travels through cables, wirelessly on smartphones, and in virtual reality glasses in 3D. Jump to table of contents ?.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ Latch enforcement ​​ changes the ​​ virtual ​​ memory protection ​​ ( VirtualProtect ) ​​ as the ​​ database ​​ pages are transitioned between the clean and dirty states.

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