Seemingly replacing Whites Delicatessen (Whites Deli), a new wine and tapas bar is opening up under the railway arches. ​Platform 3 Chelmsford, 27 Viaduct Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1TS.

A well-known problem with NoSQL databases in general is that they do not support the 'ACID' principals held dear by traditional RDBMS DBAs. The Register is reporting that this may soon change with FoundationDB. Atomicity ensures that a transaction is saved or undone, but never exists halfway between the two states. Consistency ensures that only valid data can be stored. Isolation of transactions prevents one transaction interfering with another.

Hot on the heals of the Chelmsford winter beer festival 2013 we have the Oddfellows Arms winter beer festival 2013. It starts on Thursday 28th of February and finishes on Sunday 13th March. The event will be held at ​Oddfellows Arms, ​192 Springfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 6JP. Telephone 01245 490514.

The scenario is a Drupal 6 website running on Debian GNU/Linux current stable is upgraded to Drupal 7 from backports in order to test its behaviour once the new Debian stable is released and Drupal 6 becomes unavailable.

On the Drupal 6 website there is a menu link created as a short-cut to log a user in and take them to the home page. This hides away the huge login block.

While busy hunting down a performance issue on a Solaris Zone I found an excellent article on Scaling Bits which effectively summarises how to investigate process bottlenecks on Solaris.

I used to be an Oracle DBA ... but now I'm a Big Data guru -

Dominic Connor shows you how to jump the bandwagon

As the demand for Oracle skills fades along with VB and as even Java loses its shine, the smart developer is looking at what will pay the bills for the next decade.…

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It is now time to start preparing for the Chelmsford summer beer festival 2013. It starts at 12pm (noon) on Tuesday 9th of July and finishes at 11pm on Saturday 13th July. Just as last year, the event will be held at ​Admirals Park, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 2LY.

Please read on or see the official CAMRA site for further information.

After a brief period of absence I went to Whites Delicatessen (Whites Deli) at 27 Viaduct Road, Chelmsford today and found it to be closed. I wonder if this closure is permanent? It has only been open for just over a year. Their web site is down and a glance through the window shows building work in progress. If you have any information then please add a comment. Have they gone bust or is a major refurbishment under way?

According to The Register, JavaFX will soon become available for Android and iOS. This is part of a plan to make the language free and open source. Opening up JavaFX should dramatically increase its adoption.