The World According to LINQ

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2024658 RELATED READING 1. C# Query Expression Translation Cheat Sheet; http://bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2008/08/30/c-3-0-query-expression-translation-cheat-sheet.aspx2. Comprehensions with Order by and Group by; http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/list-comp/index.htm3. Expressions; http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/r4rs/r4rs_6.html#SEC284. Google Chart API; http://code.google.com/apis/chart/image/5. Hadoop; http://hadoop.apache.org/6.JavaScript; https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide/Predefined_Core_Objects#Array_comprehensions7....

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MCPD

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MemoryImage

From: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MemoryImage.html When people start an enterprise application, one of the earliest questions is "how do we talk to the database". These days they may ask a slightly different question "what kind of database should we use - relational or one of these NOSQL databases?". But there's another question to consider: "should we use a database at all?"One of the defining characteristics of enterprise applications is the need to store long term data, which naturally leads people to reach for a database. After all...

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