During our weekly lunch seminar, Staff Scientist Frank Farach presented on the four major research trends that impact data management and consequently our decisions about OS RexDB. 1) Decentralization of electronic data capture (EDC). Researchers are moving away from costly…
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Brief HTRAF introduction video
by nara • February 18, 2013 • 0 Comments
The HyperText Rapid Application Framework (HTRAF) is an efficient way to embed data into HTML pages. HTRAF is unique because it works with HTSQL to fetch data from a database and display it directly on a page. Check out…
HTSQL Primer for Business Analysts
by charles • February 1, 2013 • 0 Comments
RexDB uses a fantastic open-source technology called HTSQL as the basis of its technology platform. Hyper Text Structured Query Language (HTSQL) is a URI-to-SQL query language that takes a request over HTTP, converts it to a SQL query, executes the…
Git vs Mercurial – A Tale of Two Version Control Systems
by matt • September 19, 2012 • 0 Comments
Warning: This post is a tad on the nerdy-side. If you’re new to version control systems and would like to learn a bit more before reading our exercise in comparing Git and Mercurial, we recommend this article from betterexplained.com to…