NoSQL solutions are now vital to many applications. When evaluating the use of NoSQL in new projects or upgrades to existing projects, project managers should take close examination of the potentially hidden costs of NoSQL. Have you experienced some hidden costs in your NoSQL implementation? Let us know in the comments. Human/Knowledge Resources Learning NoSQL
At the dawn of the internet websites were created without much thought as to what changes, if any, would need be made in the future. To keep your website relevant, gaining new links, keeping users satisfied and getting traffic from search engines, you need to have a maintenance plan. As with any maintenance plan small
I know that there’s a slick iPhone and iPad app store [ed. note: generally this is called the "iTunes Store" or "App Store", depending on your preference] but I understand that there’s also a similar online software store for Mac OS X applications and games too? Cool. Where is this Mac App Store and how
So it’s Christmastime again, and you’re not quite sure how to get Christmas shoppers to your site from the search engines. Or perhaps you’re just wondering if it’s even worth your time optimizing for. Actually, it’s really easy to get your site in front of millions Christmas shoppers within just a few minutes, even if
The power of SQL is that we are able to construct queries to find specific sets of data based on criteria. For example, if we have a database for a pound, we might query “Find me all the brown dogs.” The result from this query would return how many brown dogs we have, if any,
When it comes to search engine optimization and optimizing your web site, the anchor text of your internal links, anchor text of those links are important. Let’s take a look further and discuss more about internal anchor text links.
Our friends over at Bing recently posted about the 9 areas of your website which you should be able to control as a website owner. Whether you control them directly or you can influence them through your web developer is irrelevant…as long as you can have changes made in a reasonable timeframe. This is list
I have a huge library of music, Dave, and want to be able to enjoy it on all my Apple devices, but am tired of having to pay for the biggest possible storage on each so that I have space. I’ve read about iTunes Music Match [ed: actually, it's called "iTunes Match"] and want to
Any time there is an update to Google’s search algorithm its big news. Our readers work themselves into a fluster speculating what aspects have changed and the impact it will have on their website’s ranking. Brace yourself – Google is at it again. There have been some recent changes from Google, but the good news
Google search results will now be “fresher” after the search giant released changes to its algorithm recently. The update, which seeks to build on the Caffeine web indexing system, has said to be affecting approximately 35% of all search queries. For example, if you search for “upcoming Brooklyn theater shows” Google understands that the search
