Autor: Tim Strehle

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Nati Shalom – Private/Public Cloud: „It is clear that to make IT operations more effective, it doesn’t make sense to run all the applications that are currently hosted in a company’s data center in the private cloud. […] Disaster recovery sites require us to double our resources, let alone the cost associated with maintaining two…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – Daddy, Where’s Your Phone?: „What do you mean, where’s my phone?“ She explained that she’d overheard the question. Why wasn’t he just looking up the answer on his phone? Out of the mouths of babes. Vic said that he realized in that moment that the era of the PC…

The Fat Man – How do You Avoid The Muse? Let’s make a list…: „Pretty much everybody out with whom I hung would have emphatically jumped through unthinkable flaming hoops to have access to a 24-track recording device and a microphone or two–it would have been like…living in the Realm of the Gods. […] Now…

Jon Simpson – The depths of OS X: SIPS: „That solution is sips. The “scriptable image processing system” by self-description and a tool built right into Mac OS X, using all of the format support and output support available to the OS. sips -s format jpeg test.png –out test.jpg“ Here’s the Apple man page for…

Grant Ingersoll – Congrats to Tika and Welcome to the Lucene Stack!: „Tika is a content extraction framework that wraps many other content extraction libraries such as PDFBox, POI, and others into a single, easy to use framework that makes it easy to add extracted content to Lucene, Solr and any other text application.“

Matthew Gonnering, Widen – One Internet, One File: „Since there is really only one internet, Widen has allowed organizations to use one file (located in the Widen DAM system) across all internet locations. Instead of enabling users to download files, users of Widen digital asset management technology copy a pointer to that file instead. That…

Jim Kerstetter in a BusinessWeek commentary – Business Software Needs a Revolution: „Last year, the National Institute of Standards & Technology estimated that the annual cost of difficult-to-use or flat-out buggy software on the U.S. economy was $59.5 billion. Analysts estimate business-software customers spend $5 installing and fixing their software for every $1 they spend…

Mark Bennett at New Idea Engineering – Where have all the filters gone?: „Through various mergers and acquisitions, the three main vendors for commercial document filters are now owned by companies who are already selling their own search products. […] The 3 top commercial filters being used now are: Stellent [Outside In Technology] – Now…

„PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. PDFBox also includes several command line utilities.“ It’s being used by Alfresco.