Jahr: 2007

„Alfresco JLAN uses a virtual file system interface that allows you to plug in your own file system implementation with the core server handling all of the network protocol exchange between the client and server. JLAN is also the only Java implementation of Window’s CIFS (Common Internet File System), in addition to supporting NFS and…

Ed Stevenson at Really Strategies Blog – One of the best search experiences: „On kayak.com, you are offered a set of dials and levers for adjusting the query, such as eliminating airlines, changing departure time frames, or looking for the shortest trip. You want to leave between 10 and 12, just move the dial and…

Sam Madden in The Database Column – Database parallelism choices greatly impact scalability: „Because shared nothing [as in IBM DB2] does not typically have nearly as severe bus or resource contention as shared-memory [MySQL] or shared-disk [Oracle RAC] machines, shared nothing can be made to scale to hundreds or even thousands of machines. Because of…

Greg Miller at MacTech – Exploring Leopard with DTrace: „A few years back, Sun Microsystems developed DTrace: a new and innovative way to trace running software on live systems. DTrace enables developers and administrators to „see“ what their code, and others‘ code, is doing in a flexible and dynamic way. With the release of Leopard,…

Jon Udell – Entity extraction everywhere: „Gnosis [a Firefox extension] finds and highlights entities — that is, companies, people, products, and industry terms. Here’s an expanded view of the industry terms, products, and technologies it extracted. I’d love to see this kind of entity extraction turn into a commodity service that we can wire into…

Is there a standard way to integrate a web application with LDAP groups? Let’s see what others are doing: Confluence supports both „static groups“ (the group’s LDAP entry lists user DNs or IDs in an attribute like „member“ or „memberUid“ – typical objectClasses are „posixGroup“ and „groupOfNames“) and „dynamic groups“ (the user entry lists group…

Jason Fried – Why Enterprise Software Sucks: „The people who buy enterprise software aren’t the people who use enterprise software. That’s where the disconnect begins. And it pulls and pulls and pulls until the user experience is split from the buying experience so severely that the software vendors are building for the buyers, not the…

Jesse Robins at O’Reilly Radar – Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!): „In my experience it takes about 80 hours to bootstrap a startup. This generally means installing and configuring an automated infrastructure management system (puppet), version control system (subversion), continuous build and test (frequently cruisecontrol.rb), software deployment (capistrano), monitoring (currently evaluating…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly radar – Web2Summit: Radar Networks Unveils twine.com: „Nova Spivack of Radar Networks plans to unveil the first application built on their semantic web platform, twine, a new kind of personal and group information manager. I’ve only seen a demo, and haven’t had a chance to play with it hands-on or load…

Ryan Singer – Ask 37signals: What about research, interviews, and documentation?: „It’s like a conversation. You don’t sit down at the cafe, listen to your friend for two hours straight, and then talk for two hours straight. You take turns, constantly going back and forth, and the discussion finds its way. Of course, you might…