Databases, tablespaces, and datafiles are closely related, but they have important differences: An Oracle database consists of one or more logical storage units called tablespaces, which collectively store all of the database's data.

Its out of beta and up for grabs...ColdFusion 10 has been released! (I make a small appearance in the intro video as well.) So what is ColdFusion 10? Lets start with looking at the new features.

OPS: For the sake of this discussion... What do you mean when you say "private cloud, public cloud and data center"? CLOUDIFY: A data center is a bunch of machines that are running most of the time. It could be a bare-bones data center or a virtualized data-center. A private cloud is a data center that has an API for provisioning machines on-demand. It takes away the need to manually decide which VM runs on which physical machine for which user. A public cloud is like a private cloud, but each machine is billed by the hour.

SystemEvents offer a nice way to respond to events like system startup or -teardown. This blogpost shows how to use them to bootstrap your application.

On the Importance of Naming in Software Systems, part III. Exploring the semantic nature of Software using linguistic concepts.