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Nokia N900 is a Validation of Hybrid Open-Source Model

** Updated 2013: Obviously, this was too late to save Nokia **. To some, including me, the [Nokia N900 beats the Apple iPhone ( http://thenextweb.com/2010/01/03/nokia-n900-takes-6-stabs-iphone/), at least for technology aficionados, a.k.a. geeks. While a tribute Apple's innovative leadership, it takes a company with

Proposal Submission and Management System on Atlassian JIRA

...for The Research Council, Oman) by Akber Choudhry and Dusko Knezevic An Issue is an Issue : Alassian JIRA is all about issues. In fact, Atlassian sends out T-shirts saying 'Because you've got issues'! We first started using JIRA in a purely development support role, but then

First Looks: IBM WebSphere Commerce 7.0

I took IBM WebSphere Commerce 7.0 for a spin over the past couple of days. First impressions: * generally, it had to keep up with the overall WebSphere versioning scheme, but in reality it is more like 6.5 than 7.0 (or maybe even 5.8 if one believes

Monitoring Enterprise 2.0: Content First, Management Later

While implementing Enterprise 2.0 social and collaboration platforms for enterprises, this question invariably pops up: What control processes do we need to put in place? The answer is not quite straightforward. The extraction of knowledge and its accumulation and organisation has to be as easy and seamless as possible,

Identity Management as the Foundation of Collaboration

Identity analysis and structure is the cornerstone of any collaboration system. Some questions that need to be asked are: * Who are the people that are required to collaborate, and any possible groupings that need to be thought of? Are these external only, internal, or a mix. * What is the level

GateIn: Long-awaited JBoss-eXo Portal Announced

At the RedHat Summit in Chicago, RedHat announced the next version of JBoss Portal (3.0), named GateIn [http://www.jboss.org/gatein]. The stated goal is to replace the rather stale look and feel of JBoss Portal 2.7.x with the eXo platform capabilities, while keeping the robust

Streaming Stored Audio

...probably out of date When streaming stored audio, does it make sense to run the application over UDP or TCP at the transport layer? Here is a brief summary based on the the products of RealNetworks and Microsoft: Let us say we have stored audio that we want to stream.

Eclipse and OSGi - p2 is Broken in Ganymede

... long since fixed UPDATE: Most of these issues are fixed in Ganymede SR2, and I am using the OSGi update mechanism now. Eclipse [http://www.eclipse.org/] is a great tool with its main strength being its modular architecture. Everything is a module, and modules can bee updated from within

Human Knowledge to Knowledge Systems

...applying a node-based approach This analysis relates to the concept commonly known as “knowledge transfer” within the corporate world. It is also applicable to collaborative distance learning. A Knowledge Worker as a “Node” If a knowledge worker is just one node of a network, then logically, the knowledge context would

Using IBM Rational Version 7.0 IDE with IBM WebSphere Commerce Developer 6.0

(Note: This technique is NOT supported by IBM) IBM's Rational family of IDE's (integrated development environments) are based on the Eclipse1 platform. IBM WebSphere Commerce Developer 6.02 is one member of the family that is based on the Rational Application Developer 6.03 and the

Choice for Apps - TCP or UDP

Abstract: Describes the main points of difference between UDP and TCP as a transport for application development. When should one be chosen over another and why? Provides some examples. For high-perfomance native apps. UDP and TCP in application development The popularity and ubiquity of the UDP/TCP/IP protocol stack

Being Friendly to TCP

UDP traffic should not affect TCP connections when there is a contention for bandwidth. What is TCP-Friendliness? UDP and other continuous streaming transports are becoming more common on the Internet as multimedia, telephony and P2P applications start to use larger and larger portions of available bandwidth. One of the better

Introduction to Server-side Technologies

Server-side scripting refers to the dynamic generation of Web pages served up by the Web server, as opposed to "static" web pages in the server storage that are served up to the Web browser. In other words, some part of the content sent in response to a HTTP

First Published Shareware (1989)

Let us go back in time. Before the commercial Internet, I saved some money and bought Turbo Pascal from a store on King's Highway, Brooklyn, New York. I was learning to touch type in those days, so I wrote a program to help me to touch type. With