Girl Geek Dinner? New social group for women in the technology industry

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Admin

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-there is a group that provides a comfortable environment for women in the technical industry often male-dominated to get together and talk shop. It's called girl Geeks dinner in Philadelphia.

They held their quarterly dinner Tuesday night, but they also sponsored happy hour every month as well.

Self described "Geek Girls" Nicole Klein said his chapter is part of an international movement, "it really started in London by a girl who got tired of being the only women in tech. it is the coder. And then my friend Tristin Hightower, is heavily involved in local video game development scene here in Philadelphia, would like to start a chapter.

Klein says they have guest speakers talking tech and inspired him to reach for the stars.

"At night, I became a senior editor at a video game, so I love going to the Girl Geek Dinner, because I can talk to other women who are interested in playing a video game. Really fun for me and it makes me feel like I could get a job on something that I'm more interested in.

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Posted on March 21, 2012 by Admin

Dave McClure, venture capitalist and founder of 500 Startups (seed funding and start-up accelerator is headquartered in Mountain View, California), is in India this December, as part of his ' freaks ' on a plane journey (GOAP). And he was accompanied by a team of Geeks.

After visiting many countries throughout Europe, North

As part of the India Edition, McClure and his team will visit New Delhi, Agra, Mumbai and Bangalore to tap into the potential of the market. India Edition GOAP will involve meetings with local start-ups, geek tour and THE Research Center of GE crops, GE medical visits to Jaaga (start-up incubator dedicated to social, environmental, technological and artistic endeavor) and attended several events. Meeting with representatives of NGOS and local universities also have lined up.

GOAP is basically just invited to tour a local start-up, geeks, investors, entrepreneurs and executives to help people learn about developing technology markets around the world. As claimed by tim GOAP, they traveled the world with the sole mission of bringing together geeks and exploring cross-border opportunities.

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EnterpriseDB’s Karen Padir: MySQL Postgres + Hadoop

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Admin

A Total of 17 years, Karen Padir Executive at Sun Microsystems, and present to the company's surprising transitions to open source technology. He is an advocate for MySQL when Sun acquired the project, and then later when Oracle acquired Sun, promising "Dolphin" devoted that good times still lay ahead. But then he left, to lead marketing efforts for the primary key in MySQL competition dates back to an open-source database, EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus-commercial providers.

Now, look at other transitions are Padir new and amazing in his field: the open source development community is moving towards a less structured, high-capacity databases. So last week, EnterpriseDB began building a bridge to Hadoop, cloud-oriented database which is born of Yahoo, launched a private beta program entitled innocuously Postgres Plus connector for Hadoop.

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, EnterpriseDB's Vice President for Product Marketing of Karen Padir noted how the emergence of mobile applications that are able to customize their own services and service levels on the fly, based on the location of your smartphone as well as other locations You can talk to, have resulted in a flood of data. "There are large amounts of data, and the industry trying to figure out, ' How do we make sense of it all? ' And some important data for legal reasons, You should make sure that you keep track of all this data.

In some cases, users may want to take a subset of data from a database is structured, and analyze in real-time in a more agile, structured scenario. This is work that has been in the minds of EnterpriseDB for Hadoop that connector: allows the user to perform the functions of MapReduce Hadoop speed on Postgres Plus structured tables that are designed to be more formal, less scalable and join unions.

In contrast, the same connector can be used to move data to a subset of Hadoop Postgres Plus environments for analysis. He offers an example: "say You have a large amount of unstructured data are managed in a cluster Hadoop–all this data You're collecting from the Tweets, the data was part of the digital footprint You make as You live your life. Now say the data center, in Your IT Department, You have a database table employees employees their geography location, phone number. And you try to run a query about where your employees travel, or their level of activity of a cell phone if you are currently processing their bills. You want to link any one employee, but You don't want to change your application and everything you've done before to make it happen. So this allows You to connect and combine these two things: applications in Your existing toolset, with structured data. "

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Hollow core or dual license? Examples of MySQL

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Admin

It has been suggested that Oracle might be planning to move MySQL from dual licensing for open core model. Richard Hillesley takes us through the arguments, and the pros and cons of the different models.

The project did not thrive when there is ambiguity about the ownership of the ambivalences and makes the code project, as can be seen from the fall among the various projects that Oracle inherited through the purchase of Sun Microsystems.

The problem is not limited to proprietary code per se, but it manifests itself in a lack of transparency on the future direction and the license code. Tools such as dual licensing, copyright assignment and licensing community agreements (CLAs) can have unintended consequences; they can strip away the clarity of the objectives of the project and act as a disincentive for a sense of community which is the source of an open source project.

The latest manifestation of this phenomenon is the claim by Monty Widenius that Oracle is moving to MySQL, which has been available for years under the dual license, "open core" development model.

Oracle have added proprietary extensions, the thread pool, Oracle VM, Windows clustering, and external Windows and PAM authentication support proprietary MySQL releases, using previous APIs available.

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CyberSecurity is primarily male domains, geek image blocking girl

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Admin

WASHINGTON -there is no line for the ladies room. It is not uncommon for the event was attended by thousands but typical in the field of cybersecurity where futuristic images of clashes with the gender gap.

At a meeting of cybersecurity and hackers, females who are clearly in the minority among sea men lining escalators, filling a giant hotel Ballroom and networking in the hallways. (Some men grumble about the lack of women in the event the parties).

While the US Government and the private sector urged to try to beef up cybersecurity efforts, supplying information technology talent remained largely a male domain.

Experts say the lack of women is not so much a problem of discrimination as to the fact that young women don't think cyber as career choices. They attribute to some of the images "geek" didn't pull out of the movie and the girls lack of computer skills early that boys develop by playing video games.

Portrayal in film and television, wear glasses loner nerd with thick, soldering the circuit together, and lived in the basement-as it is surrounded by the computer and eating pizza box may be a hindrance.

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