shirley wrote: As an ISV and service provider, we specialise in .NET based collaboration solutions. Utilising ASP.NET and P2P technologies, the solutions allow companies to collaborate with external service providers. We have the key o...
Robert Z. Cashman wrote: I'll be the first one to cry foul once someone does something wrong with the patent system, but as things stand, I have to object to the tone of your calling IV a "patent vacuum" along with any implications of wrongdoing...
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HTTPS Tunneling, also called HTTPS Proxy, SSL proxy, or SSL tunneling, refers to sending HTTPS content via a proxy server. This is a very common usage scenario over the web.
Unfortunately, I have not found any Java server that supports this yet. T
Jeremy Geelan is speculating who should be America’s CTO in the Obama administration. He says:
As former IAC executive Julius Genachowski was appointed yesterday to President Elect Obama’s transition team, speculation is growing as to th
I am excited to announce the early beta release of Razor Optimizer, a JavaScript optimization tool for reducing code footprint and increasing runtime performnace. As a cross-browser web application itself, Razor Optimizer can be access either onlin
The wild popularity of Ajax fueled widespread usage of JavaScript. Almost every web 2.0 application relies on JavaScript to deliver front end interactivity. A growing list of JavaScript libraries (over 200+) are being created by various Ajax develop
Yahoo’s Performance team summarized their experience in web performance optimization into 14 rules in general (Reference 4, http://stevesouders.com/examples/rules.php):
1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires
In order to understand how the front end, especially JavaScript, is impacting web performance today, some typical web pages were studied. The following table shows content composition of the front pages of two representative web sites, American Airli
Every web application requires satisfactory performance in order to be functional. Every web application has its own context that different factors influence performance differently. Since the beginning of the web, there have been many performance tu
A couple of years ago my friend Kaushal Vyas blogged about his first marathon experience. His blog entry started with some quotes from Lance Armstrong on his first marathon:
“the hardest physical thing I have ever done. Even the worst days in the t
These are a few key concepts of JavaScript language that developers should know: execution context, activation object, variable instantiation, scoping, closure, eval and “this” keyword. Knowing these would help one tremendously in Ajax d
“This is the best browser so far” is that I can say after being a Chrome user for one day.
First of all, I was glad to find out that I haven’t found Chrome breaking any web application yet, especially Ajax applications. I was a li
If you thought Randall Stross’ attack on Tesla yesterday was in poor taste, wait until you read what Michael Wolff has to say about MySpace. In a dinner interview with BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine, Wolff says:
…if you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people.
That’s just part of a much longer interview in wh
Neil Raden blogged on Intelligent Enterprise about Process Intelligence, commenting that that “Operational BI, Pervasive BI, Operational Intelligence, Process Intelligence, BAM, Complex Event Processing, Decision Management and Decision Services” all overlap. This is almost certainly true, but some of these like CEP are technologies, and some like Process Intelligence are more applications of such technologies.
We might draw these together by saying Process Intelligence (insight and
I was a Pownce user. (Ack it can't find my page -- and I was a premium, paying user! Oy. When did that happen?)
There were some things I liked about it, but I agree it's time to pull the plug.
I stopped using it when:
1. Twitter got its act together and stopped acting like a Norwegian parrot pining for the fjords.
2. FriendFeed occupied the space above Twitter, as the messaging system with more (than Twitter). FriendFeed has never had trouble staying up.
The biggest problem with Pownce was:
1.
“As for the sergeant major’s job, it basically consisted of two main duties: being the chief disciplinary officer and maintaining the physical infrastructure of the base. As such, he was a terror to everyone in the battalion. Most people knew him only from the way he strutted around, conducting inspections, screaming at the top of his lungs, and demanding impossibly high standards of order and cleanliness in what was essentially a bunch of tents in the middle of the desert—tents that wer
Harold Feld steps through the various scenarios of how the FCC will go through its transition next year. You’d think it’d be a straightforward process. Hah! Harold lays it all out. Does Martin step down? How many new commissioners will Obama get to appoint? If the Republican commissioners were replaced by 19th century French Impressionists and the Democrats were replaced by unicorns, who would win the touch football match? Harold considers every possibility …
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This is the fifth of a six part series of posts on the Agile SOA life cycle. Here we will at look at IT and SOA Governance. With the introduction of agile, spiral, and scrum development methodologies, the traditional waterfall development approach of testing a near-finished app at the end of many Agile development cycles won't be agile at all, as the elements of the application are constantly changing. Traditional models of IT governance will also not work. To aggravate testing, the service-or
You can now put linux onto your shiny iPhone. Linux Kernel 2.6 has been ported across and it will work on the 1st / 2nd Generation iPhone / Touch devices.It is still does not have many drivers but it seems that the Frame buffer driver, Serial Driver driver, Serial over USB and a few others are now working. Right now at this early stage wireless networking also does not work but it is a work in progress. Once installed you can boot into the iPhone OS or the Linux OS using a
This was my second time at the Swedish conference Øredev and, whaoo, it has grown in both size and content. As with many of the top tier conferences you meet the regular suspects, but at Øredev you will also meet new faces and new interesting companies. There were several interesting companies there presenting their technologies, solutions, and services, such as JavaBlaokBelt and JayWay.
We also met with former colleagues and friends from Oracle, and here is a classical picture from an encou
Please help me evangelize Alltop by joining the Alltop News and Announcements email list. All you have to do is send an email to:
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You’ll get a confirmation email. Reply to it, and you’re set. Whenever we announce new Alltop topics, we’ll send out an email so that you can spread the word to your friends, relatives, and colleagues.
We have over 350 topics now, so I’m sure that you’ll find something of interest. To illustrate the breadth of our covera
Unless you've been in a cave for the last few months, you'll know that Apple's iPhone Platform is one of the most exciting Mobile Platforms for the last few years, not only for consumers but now for business.
On this day of thanks, on a professional level, I’m really thankful that Dojo is such a thriving community, and SitePen is able to work with such amazing and great companies.
A few people have asked me privately if I am upset that Alex is joining Google. The short answer is, absolutely not. Alex has been hacking on WebKit and Gears for a while now, and when we heard about Chrome, we thought it was a great way to make the open web better. I’m thankful that a company like Google ded
According to Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, “Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be president.”
In his presidential campaign, United States President-elect Barack Obama made use of social-networking in a way that was unheard of. As a result of this non-traditional approach, his team managed to shatter all previous fundraising [...]
For a proposal I’m drafting, I wrote: “It’s important to recognize that successful innovations do not create needs—they satisfy unmet needs. The trick is figuring out what needs are going unmet.”
Is that true?
I was going through my email today and found a recent email from Matt Rechenburg of OpenQRM who just released OpenQRM version 4.2. In the latest addition OpenQRM has support for provisioning server images in the cloud.
Here’s the list of features:
This new version comes with additional support for VMware ESX, an integration with Puppet for automated configuration management, improvements for the high-availability mechanism and, last but not least, a Cloud-plugin. This new Cloud-plugin prov
The December issue of the Harvard Business Review contains a compelling article on "Why You Shouldn't Go Global" ( excerpeted here for free ). While the article is worth reading, a sidebar in the article raises some excellent points which we might be...(read more)
A few nights ago I watched a very interesting piece on the Discovery Channel about ant colonies called ‘Ant Wars’. (Give me a few more lines and you’ll understand why this has anything to do with IT, enterprises or Mashups). I was awe-struck with the way that an ant colony behaves as one unified being rather than millions of individuals - some ants perform one function, which other ants use to their advantage so as to be able to perform their function more easily, and so on, and so on.
Here is another interview on Innovation. This time with Carl Olofson, IDC. Carl Olofson performs research and analysis for IDC’s Information Management and Data Integration Software service within the Application Development and Deployment research group. Mr. Olofson’s research involves following sales and technical developments in the information and data management (IDM) markets, database management systems (DBMS) markets, data movement and replication software, data management software, m
About 40 attendees at the very first meeting is really a good start. And the discussions, both at the end of my speech and at the restaurant, were pretty pretty interesting. Technorati Tags: JUG Lugano...
FORTRAN was a programming language for crunching numbers. It provided limited textual support, primarily for the labeling of output. It did this with Hollerith constants. Hollerith constants were named for Herman Hollerith, who adapted the punched card for data processing. To make a Hollerith constant, enter the number of characters, then the letter H, and then the characters. 13HHELLO, WORLD! ALGOL 60 had better textual support, adding a structure called a string which was a s
MAX, as a big brother hosts a number of small unconferences, which are located in the well equipped half-open spaces in the hallway. They have AV, comfy coaches, and are less formal gatherings of the developers. At 8:30AM I was sitting at 360MAX unco
Mr. Zucker's relationship with Mr. Weinstein is also the subject of commentary in the court papers. At a meeting in January 2007 between the two, Mr. Weinstein told Mr. Zucker: "You can only have in your life five true friends, and I consider you one of my five friends. And I'm telling you, I will not embarrass you."
When the Weinstein Company filed its reply to the lawsuit last month, it claimed that Mr. Weinstein told Mr. Zucker that a person "has about 15 friends in the business world" and t
For those who Twitter, the Ruby on Rails Bible book now has a Twitter feed of its own.
You can follow Ruby on Rails Bible for content updates and corrections, new content, discussion about the book and its contents, and Rails knowledge sharing.
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** Hot News ** Software Tool & Die (my company) is pleased to announce that they have released an update to their STD Foundation Classes for PocketBuilder (PK). This latest release coincides and complements the lat
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