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 HFS Wrapper is a popular and reliable Mac OS X file system. The HFS+ volume could be made to contain within the HFS file system volume in a way that make it look like the HFS volume and not the HFS+ volume to your systemNov. 5, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 432 |
Companies Partner to Integrate the Quest vWorkspace Client into the Full Line of IGEL Universal Desktop Thin ClientsReading, UK. - November 5th, 2009 - IGEL Technology, the world's third largest thin client vendor (2008 by revenue, IDC), today announced a worldwide partnership agreemen... Nov. 5, 2009 09:00 AM EST Reads: 260 |
In an effort to bolster the economy one job at a time, I have a position on my team that I need to fill. We’re looking for smart, capable people who know how to get shit done, and have fun doing it. You must have a passionate desire to make the lives of developers easier, [... Nov. 4, 2009 01:33 PM EST Reads: 307 |
 Google held a small event in London late last month, at which senior executives from a wide range of organisations gathered to discuss the impact of the Cloud. Presenters included luminaries such as Marc Benioff, Werner Vogels, Geoffrey Moore and Nick Carr, as well as CIOs at the coalf...Nov. 4, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 452 |
Some of my random observations and rants about BAD managers and bosses…
Motivation : Manager thinks that every employee has the motivation and he need not do anything. This is a typical problem i see in the managers who grow up the ladder from the technical streams. These manager... Nov. 3, 2009 04:22 PM EST Reads: 152 |
 The last day of the SPC had some tech-laden sessions hosted by Andrew Connell. The first was about migrating from 2007 to 2010, and how you can add the nice 2010 development features (like the ribbon and the developer dashboard) back into your 2007 master pages when you migrate them. T...Oct. 30, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 405 |
 Today is finally the day that Umoo tournaments is coming out of private beta and into the public arena. I can now set up my own tournaments with a larger crowd, maybe I can push the magic “Invite my Facebook friends button’. Currently, I mostly play Fun games, without any entry fee tha...Oct. 29, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 605 |
 We process about 300 messages / second in our application. The Service Activator pattern has been very helpful to fork off and distribute processing of messages. We fork off messages to a JMS queue for processing. In some cases, the forked off messages need to run inside the same trans...Oct. 29, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 361 |
 Google has certainly been busy building a lot of different software tools that can be used for collaboration, including Google Docs, Google Voice, Google Sites (formerly Jotspot) and Google Calendar. But there are a number of specialized tools that are more useful than these Google ser...Oct. 29, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 850 |
 Have we reached the point where email’s influence over our electronic lives is waning? It is hard to imagine, especially for those of us who grew up in the minicomputer/PC era. For two generations, email was the killer application. It delivered information reliably and within a few min...Oct. 29, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 908 |
 By Wendy Weiss
On a cold call you have approximately 10-30 seconds to grab your prospects’ attention—and you won’t get a second chance. Read on to discover how to gain your prospects’ attention…
I was eating lunch. The phone rang and thinking it might be a client calling (and also, l...Oct. 29, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 434 |
 By Tom Hopkins
In business situations, when you are trying to reach the person who has the authority to make decisions regarding your product you are very likely to have to go through one or more people before reaching that person. For the sake of efficiency, there will likely be a re...Oct. 29, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 539 |
 In the previous post we looked at how to configure the SQLAuthenticator password encryption options. Among other encryption algorithms we discovered that on creating a user from the WLS console, WLS would create the associated user in a database table with password "password" encrypte...Oct. 27, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 445 |
Great Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA is available for free in the Community Edition flavor. This is good news, but IMO, it's a little too late. I've recorded the episode #14 of my No BS IT podcast where I explain my point of view: http://nobsit.libsyn.com/ . Oct. 27, 2009 09:42 AM EDT Reads: 197 |
 I want to keep this post fairly brief because there is so much stuff going on at XSPRADA lately that I find myself pressed for time from 6AM to midnight on a typical day which usually also includes weekends, but that’s the price you pay for building a revolution. Ask Fidel, he knows.
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 Cloud Computing is the most important trend in the IT Industry. Even the biggest critics seem to agree that – in spite of some over-zealous marketeers – Cloud Computing is one of the most important paradigm shifts of the past decades. But what is it all about? Where did it come from? A...Oct. 22, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,238 Replies: 2 |
weComm provide the technology used to deliver the 3VOOR12 Luisterpaal experience across a large range of extended mass market mobile operating systems.
LONDON, 20th October 2009 - weComm, the leader in rich-media mobile solutions, today introduce 3VOOR12 Luisterpaal ... Oct. 20, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 420 |
I have not blogged much about what I work with or do and that's on purpose. Sometimes I am not allowed to tell and mostly I think you would not find it interesting. However, I wanna share with you from Qt Developer Days #qtdd09 in Munich, which was an amazing event. No... Oct. 20, 2009 01:47 AM EDT Reads: 835 |
To some, RIA (Rich Internet Applications) is a myth, a tale of the past. People still have a hard time defining what it means exactly. What is true, though, is that an explosive growth in client-side presentation technologies (Flash/Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX) brought to... Oct. 16, 2009 01:16 PM EDT Reads: 378 |
 In talking with Andy Schwartz before our recent talk together at Oracle Open World, Andy mentioned that he'd like to see some new components make it in to JSF 2.1.
I'd like to see that too - but what new components? To aid the discussion, I thought it might be handy to make up a lis...Oct. 15, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 866 |
 I thought it would be a good idea to call some attention to a new flood of good reads. Two in particular deal with some bleeding-edge performance concepts. Performance is a subject that comes to the forefront more and more often, especially when we're all trying to wring as much sweat ...Oct. 14, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 950 |
Based on Telmap and Telefónica O2 group framework agreement
London, UK, and Madrid, Spain 14 October, 2009 – Telmap, the global leader in mobile location services, today announced that it has been selected to power Ruta Movistar, search, mapping and navigation service for T... Oct. 14, 2009 05:56 AM EDT Reads: 607 |
 Unlike most of my blog posts, where I try to describe the easiest possible way to do things, in this posting, I'll instead go over a Java-based custom JSF component that responds to the Ajax tag. The reason being that there simply aren't any examples out there of how to do this, and a...Oct. 12, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,676 |
If you're heading to OOW and would love to hear my Aussie accent, my sessions are:SOA Lite: A taste of SOA with a smidgen of Web ServicesS312176 - Sunday 13:00 - 14:00 - Moscone West L3 Room 3000Abstract: Attempting to gorge yourself on a five-course SOA meal may result in a stomachach... Oct. 9, 2009 12:36 PM EDT Reads: 754 |
 It’s been a while since I posted any news JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse, but we’ve been working hard on the following new features: Code assist for syntax keywords, Code assist for system classes, Code assist for attributes of system classes, Code assist for user classes, Code...Oct. 8, 2009 10:22 PM EDT Reads: 736 |
 In a recent post on a cloud computing mailing list, an old timer from the telecom days admitted that for him “being an independent consultant means about the same things as “being unemployed.” Over the past few years the joke was “you cannot swing a dead cat over your head in downtown...Oct. 4, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 644 |
 The Connecting to the Cloud series of articles, which I wrote for IBM DeveloperWorks, is now available in Japanese. The series introduces cloud platforms such as Force.com and Amazon SQS, including code samples in Java, and governance and policy, again including code samples (an Amazon...Oct. 1, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 857 |
 I hope to see you at the SYS-CON sponsored GovIT Conference and Expo 6 Oct 2009. I’ll also spend time during the day attending the day thinking through everything I’ve ever written and learned about Cloud Computing and Federal IT and hope to bring that to bear in my interactions with J...Sep. 30, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,664 |
 In this age of collaborative technologies and social media, is there still a place for in-person meetings and real phone calls? Yes! The idea of "going primitive" can actually give you a strategic advantage in your communications.Sep. 30, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,003 Replies: 1 |
London, 29 September 2009 - United Planet (www.unitedplanet.com), one of the leading developers of Enterprise Portal software in Europe, has highlighted eight tips for small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) who want to optimise business processes across the board with an Enterprise Po... Sep. 29, 2009 08:35 AM EDT Reads: 1,150 |
LONDON, 29 September 2009 – Accumulate UK Limited, the company that provides flexible pricing solutions for mobile retailers, today announces its global licensing deal with Sony Ericsson for the use of its Flexion technology.
It is the first handset manufacturer to preload mobil... Sep. 29, 2009 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 444 |
 Many IT managers would love to move some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud. It's a chance to eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches: in capital equipment, in power and cooling, in administration and maintenance. Instead, just pay as you...Sep. 27, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,938 |
 Today we're going to talk about two features of JSF 2.0's f:ajax tag: the event attribute and the listener attribute.
The use of both of these is really, really simple - so I'll just briefly cover the basics, and then launch directly into the sample code.
The "event" attribute o...Sep. 26, 2009 04:08 PM EDT Reads: 730 |
 Thanks to Nicholas Carr everyone loves to talk about Cloud Computing as electricity and how we are transitioning from own power-stations to central grid. After a lot of discussions about “the cloud”, it occurred to me recently that there is a far better model to make cloud idea easy to...Sep. 26, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 943 |
In recent months, we’ve ‘tested the limits’ with QA notables like James Whittaker, Rosie Sherry and Andrew Muns. This month, we’re jumping over to the dev side of the aisle by sitting down with Jack Margo, SVP of Internet Operations at Developer Shed .
Develo... Sep. 25, 2009 11:57 PM EDT Reads: 812 |
 Following on from my last post, Securing Applications on the Amazon Elastic Cloud, One of the biggest questions I often see asked is “Is Amazon EC2 as a platform secure”? This is like saying is my vanilla network secure? As you do to your internal network you can take some steps to ma...Sep. 24, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,036 |
 The round of applause that greeted the suggestion that Ken Cron be promoted from Interim CEO to full CEO of Computer Associates International (renamed as CA as one of the first action items by John Swainson) left a smile on the face of Chairman Lewis Ranieri at the company's annual sha...Sep. 23, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,218 |
 I live 11 minutes away from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Friday evening I took a Cessna Caravan for a short 45-minute flight to Martha's Vineyard. This was my first trip to the island. I didn't do any research and had false expectations based on my long-time love affair with the is...Sep. 22, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,749 |
 Commoditized from solution to feature, from feature to function, load balancing is no longer a solution but rather a function of more advanced solutions that’s still an integral component for highly-available, fault-tolerant applications. Unashamed Parody of Monty Python and the ...Sep. 18, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,449 |
Here’s a Echo3 application in 3 steps