Saturday, January 15, 2005
Watch: Directory Tree and File Event Watcher: "Watch is shell utility that allows one to track directory and file state changes. It is similar to FAM [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/] and dnotify [http://www.student.lu.se/~nbi98oli/dnotify.html] , but is implemented directly on top of the *BSD kqueue interface specification."
dnotify home: "is a simple program that makes it possible to execute a command every time the contents of a specific directory change. It uses the linux kernel directory notification feature to monitor directories. Because of this, dnotify does not need to poll files every few seconds (like `tail -f' does)."
Friday, January 14, 2005
Tools & Downloads - Enterprise Integration Patterns: "Visio Stencil for Integration Patterns that contains 51 integration pattern icons as Visio shapes." & Simple Messaging Toolkit (in C#) & Loan Broker MSMQ Example from Chapter 9 - COOL!
FasTracKids: "is a revolutionary enrichment education system for children
ages three to six. This instruction in 12 exciting subject areas takes place during 24 months and is delivered by FasTracKids’ licensees around the world"
ages three to six. This instruction in 12 exciting subject areas takes place during 24 months and is delivered by FasTracKids’ licensees around the world"
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent Effect: "Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen's blazing-fast P2P software has turned the Internet into a universal TiVo. For free video-on-demand, just click here." & A Better Way to Share Files
BitTorrent for YU P2P movies & music at www.podzemlje.com!
You can find lots of things here and from Smiler's BitTorrent links.
You can find lots of things here and from Smiler's BitTorrent links.
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) Home: "Although formal support is not offered for this beta, we have set up a newsgroup forum to help get your questions answered."
Slashdot | CBC Opens ZeD.cbc.ca Code: "The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has open sourced (Apache License 2.0) the code used to build ZeD.cbc.ca. The corresponding TV show (typically consisting of content uploaded by the community) aired the announcement last night (Jan 6_, along with the Canadian broadcast premiere of Revolution OS. It's always heartening to see cool things come from a state run corporation..." - ZeD Web Tech group - COOL
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG): "W3C has created the TAG to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. -- TAG charter"
RUP planning guide for Microsoft Project 2002: "Download the Microsoft Project RUP Planning Guide.
Read a white paper about planning a project using RUP and the RUP Planning Guide."
Read a white paper about planning a project using RUP and the RUP Planning Guide."
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Computer Performance Monitoring: "This is my concise reference on analyzing and tuning Microsoft Windows 2000 and Linux servers using counters and other tools for performance testing and tuning" - START
Manageability - Open Source EAI Written In Java: "primarily Message Oriented Middleware (i.e. MOM) brokers that perform routing, brokering and transformations"
What the Bleep Do We Know!?: "is a new type of film. It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality."
RFG Predictions for 2005 | Business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics editorial from DMReview: "RFG believes 2005 will be a year of growing demands on IT, yet without appropriate corresponding budget increases on the operations side. Close scrutiny on major initiatives will continue, and in some cases expand, as legislation enacted years ago, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), now requires a higher level of compliance..."
Improve the quality of your J2EE-based projects: "Effective tools, gates, and accountability can help ensure your system's success... In addition to discussing some open source tools that aid in measuring system quality, he stresses the importance of accountability, without which, no development team would be successful."
A Java proxy for MS SQL Server Reporting Services: "Explore the URL interface of a new contender on the enterprise reporting tool market" - COOL
Additional Lifecycle Resources: "There is not one absolutely correct approach for project lifecycles. The purpose of this page is to provide additional references and resources that may be helpful to people seeking information on project lifecycles, portions of the lifecycle, different models, etc."
iBATIS.com: "JPetStore 4.0 is a fully functional web application based on iBATIS open source persistence layer products, including the SQL Maps 2.0 and Data Access Objects 2.0 frameworks. JPetStore is an excellent example of how these frameworks can be implemented in a typical J2EE web application."
Gmail Gems: 04/01/2004 - 04/30/2004: "Gmail lets you have a secure HTTPS session. For more details see this page." TIPS!
oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: AspectJ Cookbook: "Sample Excerpt: Compiling an AspectJ Project Using Eclipse (PDF)"
Monday, January 10, 2005
CertMag.com: PMI Announces CAPM Revision: "The Project Management Institute (PMI) has announced the release of a revised version of its Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification, which is a foundation-level credential that verifies project team members’ knowledge of project management terms and concepts."
Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform, Second Edition: "The Web Tier: Controlling Dynamic Screen Flow" & "Sample Application Design and Implementation" [PDF] - TIPS!
ProjectSteps: Project Ethics: "An ethical Project Manager is a successful Project Manager. The PMI has established a Professional Code of Ethics that all Project Management Professionals (PMP) must adhere to. These ethics are meant to ensure that all PMPs abide by a set of values, and they live up to those values in pursuit of their careers."
Excellent mind mapping overview: "He provides an excellent set of mind maps to support his article which you can download, along with links to the 21-day trial version of MindManager and Mindjet’s free viewer program as well... Trev also supplies a link to Alan Ehrlich’s Strategies for Life-Long-Learning site and his article about using mind mapping in PDF."
Sunday, January 09, 2005
oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Home Networking Annoyances: "Beta Chapter 4: File-Sharing Annoyances (PDF Format)"
oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Windows XP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition: "Beta Chapter 8: The Registry (PDF Format)"
oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Jakarta Struts Cookbook: "Beta Chapter 14: Tiles and Other Presentation Approaches (PDF Format)"
Eclipse Foundation and Actuate Announce Approval of Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project: "To become involved in the development of BIRT please visit www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-birt/index.html. More information is available at: www.actuate.com/corporate/corporateresources.asp?ArticleId=7256." COOL
Java Pro - Write a Web Service Client: "Among the toolkits available for Java are the open source Axis and the JAX-RPC..."
Comparing Business Intelligence Platforms from Only4Gurus.com: "This white paper compares the features of Microsoft� SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, IBM DB2 OLAP Server 8.1, and Hyperion Essbase 6.5. As you'll learn, Analysis Services has functionality that compares favorably against other offerings such as IBM DB2 OLAP Server 8.1 and Hyperion Essbase 6.5. SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services and Hyperion Essbase 6.5 lead the industry in online analytical processing (OLAP), according to The OLAP Report (www.olapreport.com)"
43 Folders: Map Folding: Building a Weekly Plan: "I have to confess a small frustration with the Getting Things Done notion of a 'next action'..."
Engineer2Entrepreneur: Getting Things Done FlowChart: "I found that the diagram that GTD is not quite what I need to process things quickly and easily. So I though out what I needed to do with all my stuff. I formalized it into this flowchart."
ploticus: "non-interactive software package for producing plots, charts, and graphics from data. It was developed in a Unix/C environment and runs on various Unix, Linux, and win32 systems. ploticus is good for automated or just-in-time graph generation, handles date and time data nicely, and has basic statistical capabilities. It allows significant user control over colors, styles, options and details."
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Assignment 3: RPC tests: "This assignment should be trivial for you as long as you can successfully compile and run programs that use RPC and RMI. To that end, go through the Sun RPC tutorial. This will guide you through writing and compiling a simple program that uses Sun RPC." - Assignment 3 FAQ
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Jack Canfield (Self-Esteem & Peak Performance, Chicken Soup for the Soul): "Jack closes with a brief short-course on the same Ten Steps to Success outlined in his other powerful programs. Participants learn:
- How to complete the past so the future can show up more fully
- How to use positive "self-talk" to help you achieve your dreams
- How to acknowledge and affirm your success
- How to clarify your purpose and define your vision of the future
- How to set goals and objectives
- How to visualize successfully meeting any goal
- How to take action and develop the step-by-step process for achieving any goal
- How to recognize and respond to feedback during the process
- How to persevere in the face of obstacles and roadblocks
- How to celebrate success once you achieve it.
Prentice Hall PTR - Designing a Data Warehouse: Supporting Customer Relationship Management By Chris Todman (Safari)
Z Solutions - Meaningful knowledge for data driven decisions: "The value of exploratory data mining is the ability to discover what the organization presently doesn’t know and the more difficult task, to correct incorrect beliefs about your customers, your products or your business." - A Manager's Guide to Neural Networks, ...
Oracle Link: "I decided to write this article after a few days of agony trying to connect a SQL Server instance to an Oracle database. This is not intended to be a technically definitive solution to the issue of linking SQL Server to Oracle but the article is intended to reflect my experiences, some Gotchas & what I did to rectify them in order to get our databases talking to each other. I have read a number of articles, which detail some of the problem & solutions I arrived at below (OPENQUERY & OPENROWSET) but there seem to be subtleties within some of these problems that readers may not be aware of. If nothing else, I hope that this article might save other people repeating the same pain that I had to endure."
William E. Pearson, III: Introduction to MSSQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Series, MDX Essentials Series, MDX in Analysis Services Series of Tutorials, MSSQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Series of Tutorials, ... START
Saturday, January 01, 2005
System Services Corp.-An Introduction to Data Warehousing: "This white paper introduces data warehousing concepts. This paper is derieved from the first two chapters of our forthcoming book Data Warehousing with MS SQL Server." [MS Word]
Action and Pitfall Tips Chapter for Review Posted: "Java Doctor is a book about diagnosing and troubleshooting enterprise applications, covering the methodologies, techniques and tools needed to successfully identify problems in scalability, performance and availability" - Download Chapter 9
Coding Horror: DVD Ripping and Nero Recode: "But don't take my word for it. The experts at CDFreaks loved Nero Recode... If you want a fuller overview of the Nero Recode software, there's a good review at CDRInfo."
The Sixth Sigma - Breakthrough Performance for Your Organization from Six Sigma: "information source on Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, and other leading management practices" & Weblog
Amazon.co.uk: Books: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit: "The seven lean principles are:
1. Eliminate waste - anything which doesn't add value to the end product
2. Increase feedback - iterate so you can get early feedback
3. Delay commitment - so you can decide with the best knowledge
4. Deliver fast - so you can afford to delay commitment
5. Empower the team - they're the ones closest to the information
6. Build integrity in - have an integrated product team, use refactoring to keep the code clean, and use test-driven development to make sure it's all tested and you have a reason for doing everything.
7. See the whole - measure UP not DOWN - measuring details encourages micro-optimisation which tends to give overall suboptimisation. If you measure at a level higher you get global optimisations."
1. Eliminate waste - anything which doesn't add value to the end product
2. Increase feedback - iterate so you can get early feedback
3. Delay commitment - so you can decide with the best knowledge
4. Deliver fast - so you can afford to delay commitment
5. Empower the team - they're the ones closest to the information
6. Build integrity in - have an integrated product team, use refactoring to keep the code clean, and use test-driven development to make sure it's all tested and you have a reason for doing everything.
7. See the whole - measure UP not DOWN - measuring details encourages micro-optimisation which tends to give overall suboptimisation. If you measure at a level higher you get global optimisations."
ISM 611: "the focus of this course is on learning the data warehousing process and accompanying techniques (OLAP, Data Mining), not on learning specific tools. While this course is tool independent, various tools will be demoed and used to reinforce the lecture concepts." - START!
Selenium: "is a test tool for browser-based testing of web applications. It facilitates both functional and compatability testing. Selenium tests run directly in supported browsers, just as real users do."
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