Tag: reduce

Reduce TCO: The Java Database Way

TCO (Total Cost Ownership) is the buzzword in today’s business world. This metric helps enterprise managers assess direct and indirect costs and benefits derived from their investment on IT components and services. A vital component of overall TCO is database management. All information-centric applications need databases for data storage. Also, the storage demands of small and mid-sized companies are growing rapidly, as more emphasis is given on data backup and long-term archival of data disaster recovery.

Reduce a String

This morning i needed to reduce any given string to a certain length and then place a pattern at the end of the string, in this case a simple ‘….’ but the reduction had to take into account full words, meaning, i didnt want to just split the string in any old place and leave parts of a word in the final string. So i created this little String Exstension which i thought may come in useful for some other people! Seems to work great for me….

Nine Tricks to Reduce Your Data Transfer Costs (One is a BLOCKBUSTER!)

They say that a picture is worth 1000 words, and in the world of the Internet, where your web host charges you for the amount of data transferred from the server to your customers, that is very literally true. Some site hosts promise unlimited data transfer (at least in theory), but most providers charge huge fees if you exceed some predetermined limit. When pictures take 20k-bites and more, getting a visually interesting site without the a huge data transfer cost requires some planning and some really neat tricks.

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