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Plone and Drupal: Different Approaches, Different Results
paul.nowak wrote: Matt, thanks for the comments. I made an error on the version of Plone. It's 2.5 Plone running on Zope 2.9x. In regards to the additional products, we have a skin installed and we have a product that we had custom developed for us that connects to a PostgreSQL database. We've looked at slow PostgreSQL queries causing problems and have not been able to find an issue. We've also tested for the case where the PostgreSQL server is down and have not been able to create an issue. We therefor...
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Skill Set of an Enterprise Mobility Developer?
By Ian Thain
Following on from my articles on thoughts and findings of Enterprise Mobility, I have decided to delve a little deeper into the area of development. In particular I thought it would be fun to put down what I believe could be the skill set or attributes, of an Enterprise Mobility Develo...
Oct. 26, 2009 08:50 AM EDT  Reads: 500
Steps for Success in Enterprise Mobility?
By Ian Thain
This is the last in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this final article I have decided to sum up the thoughts and findings of the previous articles to form an initial set of 'Steps for Succes...
Oct. 23, 2009 07:45 AM EDT  Reads: 705
Risks and Enterprise Mobility?
By Ian Thain
This is the fourth in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this penultimate article I've decided to raise the Risks to be aware of before and during implementation of an Enterprise Mobility Strat...
Oct. 20, 2009 08:00 AM EDT  Reads: 775
Opportunities and Enterprise Mobility?
By Ian Thain
This is the third in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enterprise Mobility. For this article I've decided to discuss the Opportunities that lie in front of companies that undertake an Enterprise Mobility Strategy.
Oct. 16, 2009 06:30 AM EDT  Reads: 669  Replies: 1
The Economy and Enterprise Mobility?
By Ian Thain
This is the first in a series of five initial articles, in which I'm going to put my thoughts and findings on the subject of Enteprise Mobility. For this article I've decided to tackle the Economy, which is effecting us all in various degrees, according to your geographic location.
Oct. 9, 2009 12:00 PM EDT  Reads: 546
Build Reliability into Cloud Computing for SMBs
By Marc Goodman
With IP networks taking on many new challenges from VoIP, rich multimedia and other high-bandwidth consuming and high-priority applications, SMBs need to be sure the network connectivity between their business and Cloud Computing provider is protected with controls for reliable Interne...
Sep. 23, 2009 05:30 PM EDT  Reads: 2,180
The Accidental Apple Tourist Hits Sydney
By Ian Thain
Sybase's Mr iPhone... Mr iThain ;-) has been in Sydney this week & I have been keeping an eye on the Australian devices and checking out the Sydney Apple store. This has been totally accidental, as the main deal this week was to Evangelise about Enterprise Mobility in general and epeci...
Sep. 14, 2009 10:00 AM EDT  Reads: 745
Introduction to Mobile Tagging
By Stewart McKie
Mobile tagging is a process, a technology and a marketplace. The process of mobile tagging involves creating a visual image in a very specific format – called a tag – then deploying and displaying the tag either online or offline. You see the tag and use your mobile phone camera to ...
Sep. 3, 2009 01:00 PM EDT  Reads: 767
Technology Face-Off: Augmented Reality vs Mobile Image
By Stewart McKie
Mobile marketing has recently been blessed with 3 new technologies to leverage: Augmented Reality (AR), Mobile Image Recognition (MIR) and Mobile Tagging (MT). What are they used for? Can they co-exist? This introductory article aims to position the three technologies to help businesse...
Sep. 3, 2009 12:30 PM EDT  Reads: 1,649  Replies: 3
Avoid Network Outages within SaaS and Cloud
By Marc Goodman
A primary element of SaaS and cloud computing is the virtual datacenter or Virtual Platform Infrastructure (VPI). VPI refers to virtual machines and virtual platforms that rely on many additional physical and virtual infrastructure elements. Over the past few years, new infrastructure ...
Aug. 22, 2009 10:45 PM EDT  Reads: 1,614
Getting Enterprise Data onto Multiple Platforms
By Ian Thain
No one would argue that the world is mobile. Let’s discuss how mobility is impacting business on a global level. Currently we have explosive data growth leading to information everywhere. What is critical is access to useful information anywhere, anytime. End users want convenience, en...
Jun. 8, 2009 02:00 PM EDT  Reads: 1,260
Zen and the Art of Bug Hunting
By Vicky Larmour
Ask any software engineer about difficult bugs they’ve faced and they’ll always have a story to tell you: the bug that took weeks to track down, the bug that was affecting millions of customers but could not be reproduced by any of the development team, or the bug that brought the enti...
Jun. 2, 2009 06:15 AM EDT  Reads: 1,353
Where Web 2.0 Meets Voice 2.0
By John Hart
In today’s financial environment, the demand to extract more value from IT has never been more important within the enterprise. The pressure to improve productivity and streamline processes has been at the heart of the first wave of Web 2.0 adoption, where teams have used collaborative...
May. 15, 2009 11:00 PM EDT  Reads: 2,432
Seven Steps to the iPhone Developer's World
By Ian Thain
Master, what is the best way to master iPhone Development? Grasshopper, here are my seven steps to becoming an iPhone Developer. Tread carefully and you will become a wise man... Buy an Intel Based Mac & a Device - though the iPhone/iPod Touch device isn't 100% necessary for this early...
Apr. 8, 2009 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 3,547
It's a Mobile World
By Ian Thain
Currently we have explosive data growth leading to information everywhere. What is critical is access to useful information anywhere, anytime. End users want convenience, enterprises want ROI. Wireless now is everywhere and coverage is strong and constantly improving. People can litera...
Mar. 26, 2009 06:45 PM EDT  Reads: 1,204
iPhone Able to Be Adopted by Enterprise Businesses
By Ian Thain
Following on from my earlier blog "Securing and Delivering Business Data on the iPhone", today Sybase shipped a new version of iAnywhere Mobile Office for Windows Mobile, Symbian and iPhone users in the enterprise. The new release offers enhanced administrative, network security, deplo...
Mar. 24, 2009 06:00 PM EDT  Reads: 4,174
SAP & Sybase: Transforming Today's Mobile Workforce
By Ian Thain
In the last 6 months at least, I have been blogging on many topics but with one central theme, I believe mobility is key to enterprise companies, not only now but for their future. This is especially true in the current economic climate, where cost effectiveness, rapid decisions, strea...
Mar. 12, 2009 05:55 AM EDT  Reads: 3,802
Mobility Is a Very Exciting Place
By Ian Thain
In the current Economic climate, mobility will take a bigger and higher profile position in the Enterprise. As companies work to streamline processes and in turn costs, mobile applications will step up to the plate to fulfill that need and more. Mobile Applications will give the mobile...
Feb. 6, 2009 11:00 AM EST  Reads: 849
Mobilizing Unified Communications
By Wayne Seifried
With our dynamic business environment and fluid business models, enterprise communications is becoming increasingly focused on mobility. The associates and managers who are key to supporting customers, resolving production problems, and addressing other critical business tasks can rare...
Dec. 12, 2008 02:15 PM EST  Reads: 1,574
The Importance of Mobile Content Portability
By Mohan Sadashiva
The recent explosion in innovative and exciting mobile devices has presented a challenge to the average mobile consumer – figuring out how to move the content from their old devices to their new ones. In the past, when the mobile phone was really just a phone, mobile content was also s...
Oct. 30, 2008 10:15 PM EDT  Reads: 2,105
Testing Wireless Systems
By Chris Bowlds
Wireless devices provide users with freedom, convenience, and flexibility. But as their dependency on wireless devices grows, users are becoming increasingly concerned about the quality and performance of wireless networks. Today's service providers are aware of these concerns and are ...
Oct. 30, 2008 02:05 PM EDT  Reads: 1,658
New Testing Approaches for Mobile Phone Quality
By Charlie Baker
Unlike wireline service, mobile phones rely on often precarious over-the-air radio transmissions to carry time-sensitive voice traffic. Add to this the transforming of voice calls into IP-routed traffic; microphones and speakers disconnected from the device via Bluetooth; high-bandwidt...
Sep. 8, 2008 03:20 AM EDT  Reads: 1,957
Dale and Thomas Leverages Wireless Warehouse
By Norm Steiner
Dale and Thomas Popcorn manufactures and distributes gourmet popcorn products in a wide variety of flavors such as chocolate and peanut butter, cheddar chipotle, and toffee crunch. At Dale and Thomas Popcorn, they do everything possible to ensure every item they ship arrives in perfect...
Sep. 4, 2008 03:18 PM EDT  Reads: 1,671
Breaching Wireless Networks
By Ryan Sherstobitoff
Wireless networks and endpoints offer convenience and connectivity, but unless properly secured, they also offer a means of egress into the network. As evidenced by recent headlines surrounding undiscovered data breaches and subsequent public exposure, hackers have begun to turn their ...
Sep. 2, 2008 02:30 PM EDT  Reads: 2,118
Overdue Innovation in Mobile
By Yann Dietrich
Why is the 'collaborative source' development approach uniquely suited and required to drive innovation in the mobile-communications software stack? What are the early fruits of its impact? Out of the principles of open source and the particular market and legal constraints of the tele...
Jun. 13, 2008 03:15 PM EDT  Reads: 3,953
The Monetization of Mobile Multimedia
By Mitch A. Lewis
The demand for and widespread usage of popular video sharing sites, communities of interest, social networking and personalization has increased exponentially in the past year. While multimedia services and usage are at all time highs in terms of minutes of use, service providers and c...
Jun. 12, 2008 11:30 AM EDT  Reads: 3,537
The Growth of Web 2.0 Services
By David Jack
Over recent years the web has seen the growth of so-called 'Web 2.0' services based around the concept of a two-way information flow, and the empowering of individuals to create and publish their own content and information through blogs, wikis, video sharing, and social networking ser...
Jun. 11, 2008 11:30 AM EDT  Reads: 3,539
Engelbart's Usability Dilemma: Efficiency vs Ease-of-Use
By Richard Monson-Haefel
The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...
Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT  Reads: 26,676  Replies: 6
Convergence or Divergence
By Morten Grauballe; Richard Kinder
Google and Apple's publicized emergence onto the scene of the mobile industry is the latest consequence of the mobile phone becoming a best-selling device and a driver of growth in the telecom industry. All the big PC and Internet players want a piece of the pie, and IT industry pundit...
Feb. 15, 2008 04:15 PM EST  Reads: 4,299
Who Is Buying Your Wireless Products?
By Bruce Peterson
They're termed 'early adopters.' They're the early birds who snap up the latest wireless devices like Apple's breakthrough iPhone. These high-tech consumer electronics' enthusiasts are critical to a new product's success because their opinions can often make or break a new product base...
Feb. 5, 2008 02:00 PM EST  Reads: 4,504
Mobile Web 2.0 – Web 2.0 and Its Impact on Mobility
By Ajit Jaokar; Tony Fish
Welcome to the second part of this 3-part article. Much has happened since I wrote the first part: for instance, I am now a member of the Web 2.0 Workgroup and I will be speaking at SYS-CON's SOA Web Services Conference & Expo 2006 in New York City in June. Many thanks for all your fee...
Feb. 23, 2007 04:30 PM EST  Reads: 31,655  Replies: 1
AjaxWorld Magazine: AJAX for Mobile Devices Will Be the Hallmark of "Mobile Web 2.0" in 2006
By Ajit Jaokar
Recently, Opera announced the availability of AJAX on mobile devices through their browser. Considering the popularity of Opera in the browser market (especially in the mobile browser market), this announcement is indeed very significant. Having been involved in creating mobile service...
Apr. 6, 2006 11:00 AM EDT  Reads: 54,085  Replies: 20
Device Differentiation Drives Demand for Wireless Content Management
By Doug Barre
Publishers operating in the mobile world are facing an uphill battle in maintaining control in an increasingly fragmented and segmented market. As market demands continue to escalate, today's developers and/or publishers cannot survive competitively without a thorough working knowledge...
Mar. 7, 2006 10:00 AM EST  Reads: 8,036  Replies: 1
AJAX and Mobile Web 2.0: A Service Blueprint Combining del.icio.us and flickr
By Ajit Jaokar
Introducing an intriguing mobile version of a combination of, Ajit Jaokar continues his insightful contributions to the fast-emerging new 'Mobile Web 2.0' category of ideas and applications.
Feb. 23, 2006 04:45 PM EST  Reads: 49,225  Replies: 6
Enterprise Mobility: Unwiring ROI Complexity in a Wireless World
By Satya Sarada Kandula
The convergence of wireless communication technologies and the miniaturization of electronics have together created a great technological opportunity for enterprises to extend their boundaries out of their office buildings. In this article the author presents a simplified mathematical ...
May. 26, 2005 08:00 AM EDT  Reads: 8,863
Ringback Tones
By Steven Borne
The search for 'the next ringtones' has another contender, and this time everything seems to add up. Question: Name a service that launched with only a handful of compatible handsets, provided AM-radio sound quality, was barely marketed, but still managed to become a multibillion-dolla...
Oct. 6, 2004 12:00 AM EDT  Reads: 50,899
The 7 Biggest Wireless Surprises Coming in 2004
By David Geer
Wireless is taking off in a big way, but some surprises await us. How do you predict the seven biggest surprises about to hit the wireless industry? I spoke with two well-connected 'ringers' who have a keen sense of the industry. I absorbed their combined input and pooled seven respons...
Mar. 1, 2004 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 11,883
Bluejack City - A new wireless craze is spreading through Europe
By Tom Dibble
Just as SMS was spawned, there's a new craze that's spreading across parts of Europe. Reportedly, it's more prominent in the UK, but popular elsewhere too. Bluejacking, as you may have guessed, involves the Bluetooth standard to send anonymous messages to other Bluetooth-capable handse...
Dec. 29, 2003 10:31 AM EST  Reads: 14,472
Understanding the Engine Behind MMS - Five elements necessary for efficient rollouts
By Uma T. Murty
Here's how the imminent emergence of MMS will enable operators to make the right platform choice. The potential for Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is significant - with industry experts estimating a multibillion dollar market.
Dec. 29, 2003 10:21 AM EST  Reads: 11,066
The Role of Batteries in Cell Site Survivability - VRLA battery management can be a logistics nightmare
By Jonathan Quint
Recent power outages have shown the importance of local backup, but is it really that simple? If you're responsible for operations at your remote cell sites, you must address a number of issues before you even think about making a decision.
Dec. 29, 2003 10:19 AM EST  Reads: 10,525

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