Several years ago people were talking about Google taking over the IT world (presumably from Microsoft). Now Google are probably the most influential IT company but the pace at which it grows has slowed considerably. The illusion that everything bearing the Google trademark is innovative and super cool is slowly but surely wearing off. However we cannot live without Google's product today much like we cannot live without Microsoft's. Now the question is "Who is next?" and my answer is - Facebook...

   It seems that the year is not good for the rock fans. After Peter Steele to a better place moved the little man with the big voice - Ronnie James Dio. In my opinion he had the greatest voice in rock. Besides the great albums with Black Sabbath, Rainbow and DIO he left us the metal music symbol - the horns sign.

   Dio went to the Temple of the King today 16.05.2010 and the reason was cancer which he fought for some time now. He is 67 and despite his serious age he was making long concerts until the illness got him.

   Dio loves Bulgaria and made many concerts here. We were privileged audience.

   To fill in the vacuum of technical articles on this no-blog I decided to put in this article about small but interesting problem with LINQ to Objects performance that a guy posted on a developers' forum a while ago. Fear not for I am working on more serious technical article but I am doing it slowly like a glacier moving...

   It appears that Type O Negative's Peter Steele has died yesterday... again. Other members of the band including their manager have confirmed the news. The greatest Gothic metal musician of all the time died of heart failure at the age of 48.

   I still hope that in a week I will come back and update this article saying that it was just a P.R. stunt for their new album. After all they have done it once in 2005. Somehow I feel like I will not have this opportunity.

   It has been a while since I posted a technical article so my mailbox is jammed with e-mails from people begging me to spread more wisdom. This particular post deals with one of the most pressing and hard unsolved problems in computer science – Is it better to store user uploaded files in the database or on the file system? This question has spawned thousand of IRC, forum and other flames. I too have participated in my share of flames on the topic. So it is time for you, the reader, to learn what is the right way to store user uploaded files and it is...