<t>The unix OS on Mac is based on BSD Unix. Apple built their windowing system to sit on top of the unix layer.As for strange MAC features remember Apple is a company and they are not keen on divulging things like the file format used by their apps or exactly how they have implemented the JVM on 10....

<t>A good way to learn more about the internals is to make an appointment for help with the Mac store near you. Just make sure they know its going to be a techie question. These appointments are free - or at least they have never charged me. Then you can ask all the questions you want and if they do...

<t>one of the fastest - though not the safest as there is generally no type checking ways of doing this is something called bcpThere should be a bcp utility on your installation that does bulk copy insertsAlso if you want to improve performance and future scalability consider avoiding MS access it i...

<t>If you want reliable tick data from all those Exchanges your choice of underlying vendor is limited. The main choices would be Reuters or Bloomberg or direct exchange connectivity . From Experience I set up the Tic by Tic data capture at JP from scratch and did some enhancement work at Merrill bo...

<t>If you want to learn Java, after you have chosen your IDE - I use Netbeans and Eclipse ( depending on project and language I am coding in ) - you need to get a good grasp of the fundamentals of Java - A great easy book that assisted me in passing my Sun certifications was Head First Java by Kathy...

<t>JavaScript itself is probably not going to be super-fast as it is wholly dependent on the browser being efficient, as well as which browser you use. If you are looking at Java script one piece of advice I can give having learnt the hard way is that you should definitely look at Ajax as it allows ...