Jahr: 2006

Nathan Torkington – A Week in the Valley: Ning: „It’s just like Rails in the sense that it makes it easy to build a web app. Rails puts „hello world“ one commandline away. Ning puts a full real big app one click away. Rails is a framework built around conventions. Ning is a set of…

Tim Bray – The Databox: „Occasionally, one of the disks might fail. When this happens, you won’t lose any data, but a red light on the Databox will start flashing, and it will send mail to a few designated addresses. When this happens, it’s exactly like when your laser printer starts saying “You need to…

David L. Margulius at InfoWorld – Product management bug is spreading: „Enterprise IT is making a transition from build-to-order (“order taker”) and mass manufacturer (“any color you want as long as it’s black”) to being a service provider responsible for delivering flexible, configurable platforms and applications. The only way to do that is with a…

„SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools based on Semantic Web technologies that improve access, management and reuse among digital assets.“

Ephraim Schwartz at InfoWorld – IM as a unified collaboration platform: „We all know that IM (instant messaging) is a tremendous time-saver, allowing you to make fewer phone calls, answer fewer voice mails, and send and receive fewer e-mails. So when I spoke with Dave Marshak, director of IBM Lotus collaboration technology, on the occasion…

Toby Ward – The new intranet: wikis and RSS?: „Knowledge is shared and managed every day in every organization – it’s just not managed very well. And effective knowledge management is more than just a plug-and-play off-the-shelf software such as document management – effective knowledge management depends on highly collaborative and sharing employees who are…

Simon Phipps – Freedom To Leave: „If „interoperability“ meant „import only“, I’d never feel safe trying new things so market growth and innovation would be inhibited. People who implement open standards like this are smart, because although they allow customers to leave for greener pastures they also allow them to return – I am still…

Mario Apicella at InfoWorld – Can a federation tackle the data management puzzle?: „Obviously, data indexing and search are prerequisites to analysis and classification, and handling those processes efficiently is a major requirement. „Anybody can scale to handle billions of documents, but it’s going to take a ton of hardware to do it,“ states Robert…

Tom Yager at InfoWorld – Tech careers are on the wrong track: „IT careers require an understanding that the purpose of commercial computer systems is to serve people. Not to serve one another, not to serve database rows or HTTP packets, but to make people glad they’re using their computers instead of grappling with the…

Geoffrey Wiseman at InfoQ – Real-World Rule Engines: „For many developers, rule engines are buzzwords, or black boxes on an architectural diagram: something to be feared or admired from afar, but not understood. […] Over the course of this article, I’ll be sharing my practical experience with rule engines and with Drools in particular to…