Thursday, April 13, 2006
Google Local - Calabogie Lodge, Calabogie Ontario (RCI Resort ID 2130) & Calabogie Lake Fishing Map and Launch Site Information & Pathfinder Maps - fishing maps: "Calabogie Lake - Nautical chart with bathymetry/depth, fishing spots and buoy localization plus topographic data in 3D." & Calabogie Lake: "Game Fish species in the lake include: walleye (pickerel, doré), northern pike, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, yellow perch, brown bullhead, channel catfish, rock bass, and American eel"
Google Directory - Regional > North America > Travel and Tourism > Lodging > Timeshares: TUG - Timeshare Users Group - Users group for timeshare owners. Reviews of resorts, advice for timeshare owners, classified ads, exchange listings.
Palm Bluetooth Internet Setup & Palm Bluetooth Guide - PalmZone.net & HOWTO: Palm Bluetooth Net Access with Windows & Internet on Air - Bluetooth Networking with the Sprint Treo 650 & mytreo.net | Treo how-to guides : Bluetooth dial-up networking (DUN) for the Treo 650 & Checking and sending email from a Bluetooth access point (AP)
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
OpenXML Developer : Two New Articles: "'Open XML Document Image Conversion' is the 3rd article in Sanjay's series on working with Open XML Formats in Java... The original intent of this article was to demonstrate a technique for compressing a large document that is bloated with embedded BMPs, but to Sanjay's surprise he found that the ZIP compression of a typical BMP screen shot in an Open XML package is so good that there's not really any room for improvement via this technique. Nonetheless, this article is a good example of how to replace embedded media in an Open XML document for those working in Java environments. The second article, 'Creating an Open XML Document in .NET', takes a look at how to write user-entered text into a newly created Open XML document."
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Wanton Spirit » Blog Archive » My Weekend With Drupal: "Overall, a success. And it’s still nine minutes before midnight. Perhaps time for a martini…"
WASP | Web Application Structure for PHP 5: "WASP strives to allow web developers to make great applications with more fun and less code, but in the familiar playground of PHP." & ONLamp.com -- Simplify PHP Development with WASP & What is interesting is that WASP uses Drupal to power its site
Evolving JMX @ SOA WEB SERVICES JOURNAL: "if you had a requirement to aggregate JMX resources with WMI resources in a distributed manner, this would not be a straightforward task. The WSDM MUWS specification provides the needed mechanism and platform neutrality to address this challenge." & A little wisdom about WSDM & Understand Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) PDF
Learn the Eight Principles of Web Services Management: "Managing Web services at the SOAP level complements and does not compete with other capabilities for management, such as WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) or JMX (Java Management Extension), that are available through C#, Java, VB, or C++ methods. JMX is a standard in the Java environment for management of Java objects. WMI is an equivalent management standard in Windows."
Access Windows Performance Monitor counters from Java, Part 2: "In Part 1 of this series, Nicholas Whitehead introduced NSClient and NSClient4j. NSClient is a small footprint service that runs on Windows hosts. NSClient4j is a Java API that makes Windows Performance Monitor statistics accessible to Java clients on any platform. In Part 2, Whitehead exposes NSClient4j as a Java Management Extensions (JMX) resource and describes the benefits of doing so."
Rob Harrop’s Blog » Controlling MBean Registration Behavior in Spring & [#SPR-680] Notification Support in JMX - Spring Framework & See also Part 1 of "JMX notifications with Spring" on Spring's corner : Weblog (via Spring Framework - SWiK)
AOP@Work: Performance monitoring with AspectJ, Part 1: "Say goodbye to scattered and tangled monitoring code, as Ron Bodkin shows you how to combine AspectJ and JMX for a flexible, modular approach to performance monitoring. In this first of two parts, Ron uses source code and ideas from the Glassbox Inspector open source project to help you build a monitoring system that provides correlated information to identify specific problems, but with low enough overhead to be used in production environments." & AOP@Work: Performance monitoring with AspectJ, Part 2: "Ron Bodkin shows you how to add enterprise monitoring features to the Glassbox Inspector, including monitoring multiple applications, Web services, and Web application frameworks. He also shows you how to track application errors and contain them in monitoring code and demonstrates pragmatic approaches to deploying and controlling your monitoring infrastructure."
Extending Spring JMX support: "I use a relatively simple exercise -- adding notification events to Spring-based application methods and attributes -- to help you get comfortable with customizing Spring JMX. After following my example from start to finish, you'll be on the path to fine-tuning Spring's JMX management infrastructure for your application needs... I conclude the article with a working example based on a mockup service object with both start and stop methods and a read-write attribute to be managed. I test the implementation with a small client/server application designed for that purpose. The application server is a standard Java 5.0 MBeanServer supplemented with an HTTP adaptor from the MX4J open source project." - NICE
Blogging Roller: ROME chapter complete: "Over the weekend I finished the second of two new chapters I promised for RSS and Atom in Action. The first one covered Windows RSS. The one I finished late last night is the new Chapter 7 on 'The ROME newsfeed utilities.' Here's the outline:"
Monday, April 10, 2006
Splunk > Splunk Base (via Start-up brings glitch wiki to IT pros | CNET News.com: "Efforts have been made to standardize log information into a single format that, in theory, will help system administrators pinpoint problems quicker. As part of its autonomic computing initiative, IBM published a common log file reporting format")
Digg PHP's Scalability and Performance - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog: "Owen mentioned they use the APC PHP accelerator platform as well as MCache to lighten their database load..." - LINKS
Live Weather - Australian Bureau of Meteorology — UMN MapServer: "The WMS is also easily viewable in Google Earth using the .kml files provided here" => Data Management - Google Earth Configuration files
geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca - Important Notice: "The download Directory contains the data that GeoGratis serves up on "The Discovery Portal" and GeoGratis. This is the extent of GeoGratis?s data holdings. If the data you are looking for is not there, GeoGratis does not have it. 'Canadian Conservation Areas Database (CCAD)' access must use the online registration service). FTP access provides direct access to these collections at the same entry point."
DNR Garmin Extension for ArcView: Minnesota DNR & ArcView - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "a Geographic Information System software product produced by ESRI. The full name of the product is ArcView GIS." & Is It Time for Open Source? - Articles: "In Canada, you can spend $50,000 (Jan2005 price) to get ArcIMS, ArcSDE running on Oracle and then build yourself a clunky online map, and painfuly coax it to swallow the data sets you need it to display. ... while eating the time to learn how to use it ... or paying for training. Or, you can download MapServer with PostGIS for free, and use a small part of that $50,000 to pay for time to learn how to use the software, and end up with a very responsive online mapping system that easily chews through many gigabytes of data ... Allowing companies to have great systems that they could otherwise never afford to develop. The MapServer community is large and responsive, I've had bugs fixed the same day I reported them... Ken is correct. ArcIMS and ArcGIS and their bloated pricing and underperforming system created a real need for Opensource software." & Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC): "a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services" (OpenGIS Simple Features Specification for SQL Revision 1.1) & MapServer Workshops — UMN MapServer - START
Mapping Toolbox - Free GPS Programs: "Palm PDA users will like Cetus GPS for tracking and field data collection" & The Cetus GPS Book: "Cables for both are quite expensive at Garmin, but Blue Hill's Innovations and Pfranc sell some high quality connectors and Palm-Garmin cables World wide. If you buy a cable from them, please let them know, that they were recommended by Cetus GPS." - TIPS
dwlz.com: Palm Pilot Download Page Food Lists, Menus & More & Palm Pilot Central: READ THIS to get WWCalc, Food List, and Restaurants!! & wwcalc-for-palm - Files: "This group is for distributing info about WWCalc for Palm OS. WWCalc works ONLY on PDAs running the Palm Operating System"
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Mark Rittman's Oracle Weblog: Using the Sparsity Advisor in Oracle OLAP 10gR2 & Using Partitioning to Improve the Performance of Oracle OLAP Aggregation & New OLAP Calculation Builder, and GLOBAL Sample Schema, Available for Download: "Oracle have released for public download the Microsoft Excel-based OLAP Calculation Builder, that I'd mentioned earlier in the year. Using this piece of shareware, you can use an Excel template to create, en-masse, calculations that go into your Oracle Database 10gR2 analytic workspace."
Visual Studio 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets: "A set of Visual Basic and Visual C# Code Snippets are included in the Visual Studio 2005 box – additional Code Snippets can be found below..."
Saturday, April 08, 2006
The Hogg Blog : Just Announced - Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit: "Service BAT is a toolkit that provides architectural guidance, tools, patterns, wizards, etc. to help you designing and building services using Windows Communication Foundation and ASMX. The Guidance Automation Toolkit is used to integrate all of this very nicely into Visual Studio.NET 2005. One of the great things of Service BAT is the level of customization. Service BAT doesn’t force to do anything you don’t like. You can customize most parts of Service BAT to make it meet your requirements"
Friday, April 07, 2006
Arun Gupta's Blog: WS-I Testing Tools Ant Tasks: "WS-I Testing Tools determine conformance with WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 (BP 1.1) and Simple SOAP Binding Profile 1.0 (SSBP 1.0). The testing tools download bundle comes with two tools that facilitate the process, they are Monitor and Analyzer. The bundle comes with a command-line version of these tools but for easier integration with Ant build scripts, ant tasks for these tools is available here." - COOL
Developing Java web application to WebLogic Server 9.0: "In this article, you will deploy the web applicationt to WebLogic Server. You need to read the article of Developing Java web application with DB-VA EC, MySQL Tomcat, JSP and Servlet and follow the steps to create the SchoolProject because you will use the same example to deploy on WebLogic Server 9.0. Assume that you have been installed WebLogic Server 9.0."
Java Reference Guide > Jakarta Commons - Net Class Library: "provides support for the following Internet protocols: Finger, Whois, TFTP, Telnet, POP3, FTP, NNTP, SMTP, And some miscellaneous protocols such as Time and Echo as well as BSD R command support"
the kdonald blog: JMX and Spring: "When I think JMX, I think a true operational management protocol like SNMP or CIM/WBEM."
Jasmin: JAX - Java AgentX Client Toolkit: "JAX is a Java package that provides classes to implement Java AgentX (RFC 2741) sub-agents. It is designed to allow easy integration with existent Java code without requiring much knowledge on SNMP." & Jasmin: A DISMAN Schedule-MIB Implementation: "The Schedule-MIB allows to schedule simple SNMP Set operations on the local SNMP agent on a regular basis or at specific future points in time. In conjunction with the Script-MIB this allows to launch short-time scripts at regular intervals or to start and terminate scripts on scheduled points in time. Besides this application in combination with a Script-MIB agent" & Jasmin: Smurf - A Script-MIB User Interface
ExpectJ - A Java implementation of Unix expect & CPAN Expect vs. native expect: Perl Scripts & Pexpect - a Pure Python Expect-like module & yax - Yet Another eXpect [ruby] (via Expect for languages other than Tcl)
SNMP Monitoring and Management: "To monitor a Java virtual machine (JVM) with SNMP" (via SnmpAdaptor: "provides a JMX SNMP Adaptor for JMX Agent") - TIP
Thursday, April 06, 2006
List of Ontario census divisions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia & Canadian Statistics -- Welcome: "This selection of summary tables provides an overview of statistical information on Canada’s people, economy and governments" & Census of Canada: Census of Population, Census of Agriculture & Data Sources - Leddy Library: "Canadian Census Analyzer" & Canadian Census Data - James A. Gibson Library, Brock University
Maintain Better Coding Standards with Ease Using Checkstyle: "Coding standards are a time-honored and widely respected programming best practice. However, they are not always easy to put into action. Find out how Checkstyle can help you define and enforce a set of coding standards and promote good and consistent programming habits across your team. "
Why AJAX Is So Disruptive @ AjaxWorld Magazine: "I wrote an invited response in the AjaxWorld Magazine to Jeffrey Zeldman's off-kilter but widely read (i.e. Slashdotted) take on Web 2.0. In it I claimed Zeldman had way too much focus on Ajax as a Web 2.0 ingredient."
Digital Memories: "With Windows Vista, your photos and the tools you need are all in one place. Whether you're working with photos or video, editing or e-mailing your pictures, or putting together a slide show for your next party, you will have the tools to get it done—and more—quickly and easily."
How to Use Windows XP: "TV and Multimedia - Take advantage of these resources to get the most out of your Media Center personal computer..."
Scotsmist Personal Computer Support Appendix, The Glossary N: "Nerd - A nerd is very similar to a geek, but with more RAM and a faster modem. Nerds often find geeks dull because geeks don't spend enough time talking about computers." (via Nerd Vittles :-)
Prakash Malani's Blog: Configuring WebLogic 8.1 and Hibernate 3.0 - Part II: "Hibernate ships with JMX Management Bean (MBean) implementation. I did not see a way to deploy Hibernate into WebLogic using JMX. What are the benefits of leveraging JMX with Hibernate and WebLogic? I see at least two benefits. One is deployment as well as re-deployment. But, more importantly is being able to monitor Hibernate and obtain statistics. Runtime monitoring from a JMX console is essential for health and caring of a deployed application..."
dev2dev: Spring Integration with WebLogic Server: "Spring offers extensive JMX support, which includes the ability to expose WebLogic Server’s MBeanServer through Spring’s MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean. The MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean is a convenience factory whose byproduct is an MBeanServerConnection. During application deployment, the connection is established and cached to be later operated on by referencing beans... For more information, see Understanding WebLogic Server MBeans and Spring’s JMX Support."
SpringHub.com - Spring Framework Hub - Web Links & Rob Harrop’s Blog » [TSE] Slides for Advanced MVC, Scheduling and JMX Presentations: Enterprise Management with Spring and JMX and JMX Samples (all code requires Spring 2.0 M1 or above)
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Sunday, April 02, 2006
James Strachan's Weblog: "we now have some neat visualisations of ActiveMQ which can be auto-created at runtime by the broker."
Jamie Thomson - Life, the universe and SSIS! : SSAS: Foodmart 2005: "People that have used SQL Server Analysis Services prior to v2005 will be failar with the sample Foodmart database that was provided with the product. That has now been replaced by the AdventureWorks sample database instead. For those of you that want Foodmart back, Darren Gosball has made a 2005 version available for download here"
Northwind Starter Kit: "I'm still sort of newbie as far as patterns are concerned, but I felt I needed a serious project for me to learn more quickly and effectively. That's why I embraced and hopefully revamped an Andrea's old project--the Northwind Starter Kit (NSK). NSK is a sample application to illustrate blueprints of a .NET-based layered application architecture. It includes a various presentation front-ends, various DAL based on SQL Server 2000 and Access, and a business layer designed according to various popular design patterns. It's in C#."
Saturday, April 01, 2006
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