William Vambenepe12/10/09
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[Preface: a few months ago I shared some thoughts about how REST was (or could) be applied to IT and Cloud management. Part 1 was a comparison of the RESTful aspects of four well-known IaaS Cloud APIs and part 2
was an analysis of how REST applies to...
Mitch Pronschinske12/10/09
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The Eclipse Marketplace has officially replaced Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC). The new site
went live less than 24 hours ago and features custom lists where users
can keep track of their favorite plugins. Eclipse Marketplace's search
feature is now based...
Steven Lott12/09/09
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First, there are several tiers of mutability in requirements.
These tiers define typical levels of change context of the problem, the
problem itself and the forces that select a solution to the problem.Natural Laws
(i.e., Gravity, Natural Selection). As...
Mitch Pronschinske12/09/09
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The Mac and Linux versions of the Chrome browser were finally released yesterday after the Chrome team said it had fixed the last bugs on Friday. You can download the beta here.
Google says the browser launches so fast "there's hardly even time...
Mitch Pronschinske12/08/09
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Good news for website owners and publishers! More features were added recently to the free Google Analytics software. Users can now put annotations on data points to elaborate on spikes or drops in traffic. Custom variables can now be seen across all...
Mitch Pronschinske12/07/09
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The web-based word processing startup, AppJet, has just been acquired
by Google. AppJet says its EtherPad software will be open source in
response to the uproar from angry customers. Users were told that no
new customers would be accepted and the...
Mitch Pronschinske12/05/09
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The New York Post recently reported that Larry Ellison, the Oracle CEO, offered a compromise to EU regulators. Oracle denied the report
a few hours later. The Post cited two unnamed sources that said
Ellison was open to creating a "separate...
Mitch Pronschinske12/04/09
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The release of Google Chrome for Mac OS X may already be here
by the time this is posted. The Chromium team recently changed it's Mac OS X roadmap
page saying that all of the bugs are now gone. However, the first Mac
version for Chrome will be missing some...
Len DiMaggio12/03/09
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I often recall having to spend many hours fighting with complex and
error prone processes to install server software and get an
'helloworld' example running. With JBoss, however, it's much simpler.
Unzipping a couple of files and maybe running ant...
Mitch Pronschinske12/02/09
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It
seemed like Apple was ready to annihilate Psystar's business a few weeks ago. The Mac Clone maker has been bankrupt for some time and
last month a judge ruled in favor of Apple's copyright infringement
case. In a surprise move, Apple recently called for...
Michael Rowley12/02/09
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Bruce Silver saw my previous post on the simplicity of BPMN vs. BPEL for execution and wondered: “Are we still debating this?”
Still?
The BPMN 2.0 spec just went to beta in August and no vendor yet has
an implementation of the new BPMN 2.0...
Mitch Pronschinske12/02/09
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Neelie Kroes, the EU antagonist to Oracle's takeover of Sun, is stepping down as the Commission on Competition chair. There's no word on whether the decision was
voluntary or imposed, or if the Oracle-Sun deal had anything to do with
it. Her successor,...
Mitch Pronschinske11/30/09
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Still trying to figure out a productive use for Google Wave? Go see
what the Seattle Times did. The newspaper set up a public Wave to
gather information from the community about a suspected cop-killer's
wereabouts. The Wave already has over 100 people...
Len DiMaggio11/30/09
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One of the main tasks that the JBossESB performs is that of routing
messages to the correct services. (As I never tire of telling people,
in the context of the ESB, everything is either a message or a service.
;-) The ESB supports multiple types of message...
Mitch Pronschinske11/30/09
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Two anonymous sources "with knowledge of the matter" told Reuters that Oracle asked for a hearing with the European Commission, which will take place December 10th. This could mean that Oracle finally plans to address the EU's concerns about MySQL...
Mitch Pronschinske11/28/09
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A new version of Apache Lucene, an open source search engine, was just released. Version 3 of the Apache Lucene project is being called a "clean up release" by the project management committee chair, Grant Ingersoll. The release removes all...
Mitch Pronschinske11/27/09
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A new report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau shows that online ad revenues for the third quarter of this year have dropped 5.4% from the end of last year. However, online ad revenues are up 1.7% from this year's second quarter. Online ad sales were...
Michael Rowley11/26/09
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BPEL is complex and BPMN is simple, right? After all, BPMN has a nice graphical notation. The BPEL standard only specifies what the language looks like in XML. That alone ought to be enough claim the prize for BPMN.
However, what if you use BPMN’s...
Mitch Pronschinske11/25/09
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Are you one of the few lucky searchers who saw the new Google search interface today? Early reports say
that Google just started testing its revamped search interface with
random users. You can find a method for getting this new interface here,
but it...
William Vambenepe11/25/09
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Things are heating up in the DMTF Cloud incubator. Back in September, VMWare submitted its vCloud API (or rather a “reader’s digest” version of it) to the group. Last week, the group released a white paper titled “Interoperable Clouds”. And a second...
Mitch Pronschinske11/25/09
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. recently held
early talks with Microsoft to show Wall Street Journal content, and
possibly other News Corp. publications, exclusively on the Bing search
engine. Analysts say this plan would hurt Murdoch more than...
Arnon Rotem-gal-oz11/24/09
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There’s no Architecture in Business Service Orientation ! There,
I’ve said it, there are no two types of SOA. I am not trying to say
that business-level service orientation doesn’t exist or isn’t
valuable. However I am trying to say that labeling...
Mitch Pronschinske11/24/09
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CA, the agile solutions company, introduced a new suggestion box forum called the Agile Planner Community. The community will give developers a chance to mold the future of CA's upcoming Agile Planner tool. Go there now and tell CA the best ways to...
