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SYS-CON White Paper: JMS Performance Benchmarks

News - 7 days ago

This paper presents a performance analysis of publish/subscribe messaging throughput of FioranoMQ, SonicMQ, TIbco EMS and ActiveMQ. This analysis provides a head-to-head comparison of these products designed to illustrate the products' relative performance characteristics for several messaging scen read more

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Starting an SOA Initiative or Continuing the Journey?

News - 7 days ago

It seems as if every few years we're inspired to learn about the next big thing in IT. Of course, it usually begins with some three letter acronym ("TLA"), is punctuated by the promise of significant ROI and ends with an eyebrow raising price tag. So why should SOA be anything different? Over the y read more

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SYS-CON White Paper: An Overview of PAN Manager by Egenera

News - 8 days ago

You need a data center optimization strategy that goes beyond hardware consolidation to simplify operational complexity, adapt to your existing environment, and deliver a secure, responsive computing infrastructure—while lowering TCO. To learn more read this White paper on PAN Manager by Egenera, a read more

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SYS-CON White Paper: Maximizing Business Agility with the Dynamic Data Center

News - 8 days ago

The first phase of virtualization — server consolidation— delivers lower costs, less crowded floor space, and a smaller carbon footprint. Leveraging virtualization more strategically creates an agile IT infrastructure that will provide higher service levels and greater reliability along with furthe read more

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Can You Ever Be Too Rich or Too Thin?

News - 9 days ago

Someone once said, "You can never be too rich or too thin." I've been thinking a lot about this statement lately, but possibly not in the sense in which it was intended. Specifically, I – like many of you – have been watching the stream of announcements coming out of Microsoft’s recent Professional read more

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Merry Christmas 2008!

News - 12 days ago

Best wishes to everyone!
Here's a rendition of Jingle Bells I recorded today (kinda punky and heavily inspired by Pearl Jam's 2007 Christmas single). Enjoy.
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Installing ExifTool on Dreamhost

News - 14 days ago

ExifTool looks like a very promising tool to fiddle with all sorts of JPEG metadata (needed for smush.it) but first I had to make sure I can install it on Dreamhost. Although installation didn't go as described on the exiftool site (since I don't have sudo access on Dreamhost), it's still installab read more

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Paint.NET is cool?

News - 14 days ago

... but doesn't write PNG8 with alpha transparency, unfortunately.
This comment on the YUI blog got me all excited by the possibility of having another designers tool other than Fireworks that creates PNG8 (palette PNGs) with alpha transparency.
Overall Paint.NET is a very simple and fri read more

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AJAX World: Nokia Web Development Plugin for Aptana Studio Released

News - 14 days ago

Nokia and Aptana have started shipping the beta release of Nokia WRT Plugin for Aptana Studio. Nokia WRT (Web Runtime) lets you build native apps and widgets for Nokia S60 phones using your JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, and CSS skills – the stuff standard web pages are made from, but installable on the p read more

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Design for Developers

News - 14 days ago

A few years ago I had the opportunity to sit down with a designer possessed of a rare talent. We were both part of the same team and he was creating some UI elements that I was to wire up. As I sat there (in awe) watching him work I realized that much of his considerable skill was rooted in fundame read more

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