Technology Mashup

I sat through a number of sessions at a tech conference on Thursday, which I found very useful in terms of understanding the technical landscape of one of our key partner’s solution portfolio. After presentation two or three maybe (and I cant rule out the effects of caffeine crash – as there weren’t nearly enough coffee breaks) I began to get rather irritated with the whole ‘business v’s IT debate’.

Do's and Don'ts of web2 outposting:

NB: Cross posted from Circumference of a Moose...

Free Paper - Complex Event Processing -
Free paper available for download in .pdf format taking an introductory look at Complex Event Processing.

The Complexity of Events
[Circumference of a Moose]

Free paper on COBOL Conversion - New download (in pdf format) discussing legacy modernisation options for COBOL.

The Legacy Conundrum [Circumference of a Moose]

Steve Harris, Sr. Vice President of Application Server Product Development, discusses Oracle's first release of Oracle WebLogic Server since its acquisition and the rapid execution of Oracle's recently articulated middleware strategy.

Weblogic Server Podcast from Oracle Middleware Radio (Oct 2008).

The ping.fm aggregator service seems to have been 'parked'. I was happily using it yesterday, and today I'm getting re-directed to a GoDaddy hosting page. What has happened? This seemed like a successful and useful service to me.

I'm cross posting this recent entry on my other blog (Circumference of a Moose) as it is primarily of a technical nature and covers off some important Telecoms topics...

The blog has been very quiet for the past month I'm afraid. I had a large bid 'on the go' and it proved to be something of a 'strict mistress'. That has abated and I hope to have a little more time for updates over the coming weeks. Stay tuned, and apologies for the break in communications.

Computerworld is reporting that over 100 domains have been registered in the past 48 hours relating to hurricane Gustav.

Although not all will have nefarious purposes, security experts are warning people to be careful of phishing scams and bogus charity scams that might emerge as relief operations go into full swing.

I had a meeting yesterday morning with AMI Software, creators of a rather interesting Enterprise Intelligence / predictive intelligence software suite.

Without going too deep into the mechanics of how the product works, its functionality includes:

As Beijing ends and thoughts turn towards London 2012, I thought it would nice to highlight this quote from Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee. Atos Origin the world-wide IT partner for the Olympic Games ensured that the technology infrastructure was designed, delivered and operated seamlessly...

If you are following developments in the forthcoming Oslo project from Microsoft, then you will want to check out these two videos from endpoint.tv. Oslo will be released later this year affecting products such as .NET Framework, Visual Studio, BizTalk Server and others. It will provide some neat enhancements to WF / WCF and will give Microsoft a stronger offering in the SOA space.

The first video is a high level introduction and discussion with David Chappell. The second video deals with preparation for Oslo and discussion with Jon Flanders.

I was reading through a list of Drupal modules and spotted one that supported tipjoy integration. This brought me back to thinking about tipjoy and its potential.

The service launched in Feb 2008, so is a relatively new venture. The simple idea is that a virtual tip jar is added to your site / blog to help monetise the content. A tip is added by a happy consumer that wants to reward the author with 10 cents (for example) made as a micro-payment.

For those interested in JBOSS BPM, I recommend reading Heiko Braun's latest post on JBoss SOA Governance: Project Overlord blog.

It is interesting (not surprising perhaps) to see the focus on GWT as the AJAX environment for creation of the RIA.

If GWT is not a familiar term, I guess for Web Dev's it will be very familiar - particularly for all of the Java heads.

If you've got a spare 50 minutes and you would like more details on GWT check out this video from Google...