Thursday, November 23, 2006

Procrastinate with Scheduled Actions | Barry Jaspan: "The Scheduled Actions module allows you to tell Drupal to perform some action (publish a node, send an email) at a later time... To use Scheduled Actions, you must first install the Actions module and the Scheduled Actions module..."

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Set all paths to "absolute" | drupal.org
HP Media Vault: Big in size and performance | Tom's Networking
Performance Monitoring and Tuning - links & tips!
Adrian Cockcroft's Blog: October 2005: Help! I've lost my memory! Updated Sunworld Column: "This remains one of the most frequently asked questions of all time. The original answer is still true for many Unix variants. However while writing his book on Solaris Internals, Richard McDougall worked out how to fix Solaris to make it work better, and to make this aparrent problem go away. The result was one of the most significant performance improvements in Solaris 8, but the first edition of his book was written before Solaris 8 came out, so doesn't describe the
fix!"

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Drupal module Xstatistics | webschuur.com
Is there an alternate to news_page module | drupal.org: "You would need to get your RSS feed items in to Drupal as nodes first. There's plenty of modules kicking around to do this one way or another. An overview of solutions is listed at DrupalFeedParsing" - TIP!
Is news_page module functionality inbuilt in drupal 5 | drupal.org: "Did you set access control for viewing news page module correctly..i believe you need to set - allow access to news page and news page feed for atleast 1 user otherwise you might get this error" - TIP
Drupal KML module | geodaniel.org
Quickfile: A Drupal Module For Selling Digital Products | Ventanazul
Brian McCallister: JRuby & ActiveMQ

Monday, November 20, 2006

Laptop Repair Help » Toshiba Satellite M35X and Satellite A75 power jack and battery charge problem "Hi all, it looks like Toshiba issued a 12-months warranty extension for Satellite A70, A75, M30X and M35X notebook computer and it’s effective November 7, 2006. For more details check out the following links
www.a70m30xsettlement.com/notice.pdf
" & Toshiba Settlement Website: "There are three forms of relief for Class Members: a Warranty Extension, a $25 Cash Payment or $50 Credit Voucher for use on www.toshibadirect.com, and a $35 Credit Voucher for use on www.toshibadirect.com. To find out which benefit(s) you qualify for and how to obtain these benefits, please refer to sections 8 through 13 of the Notice. If, after reviewing the Notice, you believe you are entitled to one or more $25 cash payment(s) and/or $50 credit voucher(s), you have the option of filing your claim electronically on this website. You do not need to file a claim for Warranty Extension or the $35 credit voucher; if eligible, you will automatically receive these benefits. Claim Forms must be postmarked or filed electronically on or before March 9, 2007."
Software Security at Microsoft: ACE Team Tour, Part 1 (via Microsoft Application Threat Modeling Blog)
WWE - Event Details - On-Demand Webcast
Virtual Labs Home: Microsoft Expression
ONJava.com -- Software Infrastructure Bottlenecks in J2EE: "Scalability is one of the most important non-functional requirements of a system. But there could be several bottlenecks within a system, which might prevent it from being scalable. In this article, we try to analyze the case in which the software infrastructure becomes a bottleneck, long before any of the hardware resources (such as CPU, memory, disk space, and network speed) are fully consumed. This is a tricky problem whose solution is explored below..."
Little's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In queueing theory, Little's result, theorem, or law says: The average number of customers in a stable system (over some time interval) is equal to their average arrival rate, multiplied by their average time in the system."
Downloads for Capacity Planning for Web Services & CS625/725 - Metrics and Performance / Topics in Metrics and Performance: "Chapter 8: SysMod.XLS, Examples 8.6 and 8.7... " & Capacity Planning for Web Performance: metrics, models, and methods: "Updated downloads: The following spreadsheets are updated and improved versions of the ones that come with the book's CD-ROM: SysMod.xls, OpenQN.xls, and ClosedQN.xls." - These workbooks come with the books:
  • "Performance by Design: computer capacity planning by example"
  • "Capacity Planning for Web Services: metrics, models, and methods"
  • "Scaling for E-Business: technologies, models, performance, and capacity planning"
by D. A. Menascé and V. A. F. Almeida; Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2004, 2002, and 2000.; 1998-2004 Daniel A. Menascé and V. A. F. Almeida
ARM: There seems to be some recent activity with respect to the Application Response Measurement specs!
The Guerrilla Manual: Hit-and-Run Tactics You Can Use on Your Boss or Throw Around in a Tiger Team Meeting: "The following distillations are taken from my Guerrilla Capacity Planning (GCaP) classes and will also appear in the new book of the same name." See also: Guerrilla Capacity Planning - Large A Tactical Approach to Planning for Highly Scalable Applications and Services & Supplementary Class Materials - Make sure to check out Class Notes (GuerrillaCaP.zip file contains HUGE amount of useful info)! & Analyzing Computer System Performance with Perl::PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick) book & PDQ Software Distribution

Thursday, November 16, 2006

IBM Sizing Guides - Tool kit: "The sizing guide toolkit consists of the eServer Workload Estimator program and optional example and documentation files that give you full authoring control to create, test and run a Sizing Guide customized for your Application. Once downloaded, you can develop a Guide right on your personal system." & IBM Sizing Guides
Performance and Capacity Management: "The Sun Capacity Management service can help you evaluate your server environment and develop a plan to help you meet your current and future business needs. You can improve utilization of your current assets by developing a model that uncovers congestion, thereby predicting shortfalls. This service is designed to build a solid foundation for the cost-efficient operation and effective management of your network computing environment."
Directory of Niche Sites -- ResearchBuzz: "Development Guide and Directory, at http://www.incominglinks.com/, lists niche sites with guidelines on how to become listed in them."
Open-source project treads on Google Maps turf | Tech News on ZDNet

Monday, November 13, 2006

Provisionator on Drupal CVS | D'Arcy Norman dot net: "PS. Man, does CVS suck! I've been using SVN for source code management for over a year. Feels like being dropped back in MS-DOS or something now that I'm using CVS again. Ick."
10 Things I Wish I Had Never Believed | steve-olson.com: "#3) Emotional people are weak, vulnerable, and easily manipulated - It’s the exact opposite. Strong emotions are a source of strength and power. The stronger your emotions and the better your ability to focus your emotion, the more creative and powerful you are. Denying your emotions creates weakness and vulnerability."
Forms Validation with CakePHP
Adopting Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the Enterprise: SOA Practitioners Guide and other documents:
  • "Part 1: Why Services-Oriented Architecture? - This guide provides a high-level summary of SOA.
  • Part 2: SOA Reference Architecture - This guide covers the SOA Reference Architecture, which provides a worked design of an enterprise-wide SOA implementation with detailed architecture diagrams, component descriptions, detailed requirements, design patterns, opinions about standards, patterns on regulation compliance, standards templates and potential code assets from members.
  • Part 3: Introduction to Services Lifecycle — This guide introduces the Services Lifecycle and provides a detailed process for services management though the service lifecycle, from inception through to retirement or repurposing of the services. It also contains an appendix that includes organization and governance best practices, templates, comments on key SOA standards, and recommended links for more information."

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Building Theme | Dudertowns: Lesson 006: Part 1 & Lesson 007: Part 2
OpenXML Developer : Adding Header - Footer to any WordprocessingML & OpenXML Developer : PresentationML Basics
OpenXML Developer : PresentationML Basics
Howto: Request Link Exchanges » Work Boxers: "But how do I find people to exchange with? Thanks to webmaster forums, there’s a wealth of information posted by other users looking to exchange links. By hitting the webmaster forums, you’re eliminating people who won’t even consider your link. Some webmaster forums that provide a link exchange forum include:
Blogging Roller: New RSS and Atom articles online
Provisionator - Easy site creation in a shared Drupal environment | D'Arcy Norman dot net
Serving static files with Apache and directories with url aliasing in Drupal using mod_rewrite | SysArchitects

Friday, November 10, 2006

Hello World, Part 6: WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
Build multiserving Java applications, Part 1: "In this tutorial series, you'll learn how to build Web applications that can serve wireless clients according to client capabilities. This concept is called multiserving, and it's useful in pervasive computing applications. Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL), an open source project at SourceForge.net, uses XML to describe the capabilities of wireless devices. This tutorial focuses on exploring and using WURFL, beginning with the concept of multiserving and seeing how WURFL enables multiserving by providing an XML format to express the capabilities of wireless devices."
Application virtualization, Part 1: Level 1 -- Abstracting your grid infrastructure
TermExtractor Demo @ Linguistic Computing Laboratory (LCL): "helps a web community to extract and validate relevant domain terms in their interest domain, by submitting an archive of domain-related documents in any format"
Alexa Developer's Corner - Webmaster Services
Google Directory - Arts > Writers Resources > Software: 8) WhiteSmoke Text Enrichment - Instant, full-text analysis solution, providing context-related language enrichment...
Link Popularity Check Tool, Website Webmaster Search Engine Tools,... - FREE SEO TOOLS!
Helping the Search Engines Index This Web Site... | The Smorgasbord: "I didn't get nearly as many hits as I should have. I got only one hit for the keyword 'wii'. But using our Drupal site search gets more than 2 pages of results! The one link I found had PHPSESSID and a bunch of code after the URL as well. Apparently, this is supposed to be fixed in Drupal 4.7.3, but for some reason, only search crawlers get URL's appended with the PHPSESSID..." & How to Impersonate Googlebot using Firefox see what Googlebot sees
Search Engine Optimization | groups.drupal.org: Drupal seo mistakes, SEO Web design report-optimizing my drupal site, What modules can influence SEO in Drupal?, Virtual path
How to Optimize a Drupal web site for Google and other Search Engine Crawlers | The Smorgasbord
Service links | drupal.org: "enables admins to add links to a number of social bookmarking sites, blog search sites etc. Includes sites are del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, ma.gnolia.com, Newsvine, Furl, Google, Yahoo, Technorati, IceRocket and PubSub."
Drupal and FeedBurner | Rogue Wolves: "I recently decided to play around with FeedBurner and get some useful stats on my RSS feed. If you ever wanted to know how many people subscribe to your feed, what they use, and track hits then you should check out FeedBurner." & Publicize :: Chicklet Chooser: "Promote your FeedBurner feed directly on your website! Place HTML that Chicklet Chooser automatically generates for you in your site templates to help users easily subscribe to your feed."
Search Engine Optimization Strategy for the Technorati Blog Engine: Search Engine Map - LINKS
Adrian Cockcroft's Blog: Free performance and capacity tools & Adrian Cockcroft's Blog: CMG06 Conference - Reno December 3-8: Computer Measurement Group conference

Monday, November 06, 2006

International PHP Magazine::News::Ohloh: PHP and Ruby Comparison
Basic Java Performance Lingo > Measurement Terminology: Throughput curves: Brick and mortar store vs. Typical web site (From Gennaro Cuomo, 'A Methodology for Production Performance Tuning,' an IBM WebSphere Standard/Advanced White Paper)"
The Challenges And PitFalls Of J2EE: "Understanding Factors Affecting Sizing..."
how-to-ejb30-spring - Using EJB 3.0 Session beans in Spring Beans

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Audio Playlists In A Flash Player | Angry Donuts: "An example is here. As you can see it can work as a page or a block (though that player is a bit large as a block. Or if you prefer the Drupal 5 version. I checked this into the Views Bonus Pack tho of course it’ll take up to 8 hours for the tarball to regenerate. You can check out from CVS. It requires the audio module and this flash player."
Google Page Rank Explained? & Google Don'ts - Dirty Tricks and Bad Tips that Will Get Your Site Banned & SEOmoz | Articles >> Search Engine Ranking Factors & SEOmoz | Articles >> Google’s Patent: Information Retrieval Based on Historical Data
Losing Page Rank with Two Site URLs | Workbench & Photo Matt » WordPress no-www & www or no www - a Page Rank issue [Archive] - StatCounter Free Invisible Web Tracker and Counter: "However the PageRank value is not being updated regularly, it takes like several months and then their database is getting updated. But I believe that the value changes more often but it is not being seen until the next PR update."
SEOmoz | Articles >> Search Engine Ranking Factors & Link building tips for high Google rankings | Google Success SEO SEM Tips: "Many SEO companies will keep their link building techniques a top secret - especially how they use competitive intelligence. SEOMOZ recently published two exhaustive articles on link buidling. I recommend you to have look at them: Long List of Competitive Link Searches, Competitive intelligence in Link Building" & SEOmoz Blog | Long List of Link Searches
How Often Should I Submit My Website To The Search Engines?: "Major Internet Directories" & Submitting a Site to The Open Directory Project
Designing handheld-friendly websites | pingVision
Microsoft and Novell Collaboration on Windows and Linux Interoperability and Support Frequently Asked Questions: Information and background on the details of Novell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. agreement to enhance interoperability between Linux and Windows, including virtualization, Web services management and document format compatibility.
FSOSS Slides | Bryght - Why Drupal Can Kick Your CMS' Ass: "For those who missed it and/or are interested: the slides from my talk are available here and video is available here."

Friday, November 03, 2006

Novell Shares Spike 20% As Wall St Journal Reports Microsoft To Start Reselling SUSE LINUX
Drupalcon Brussels 2006 | Dominik Lukeš . Net: "This page summarizes my activities at this year's Drupalcon 06. Here are the audio files from the presentations I attended:..."

Thursday, November 02, 2006

Develop HTML widgets with Dojo (PDF)
Using Apache Derby databases, Part 1: Managed objects in a converged provider environment
ca4it Accounting Firms: "CA4IT has prepared a comprehensive List of Video FAQ's that we update on an on-going basis. It ensures that every client is advised of all relevant financial or tax matters that have come to our attention throughout the year."
Java – Achieve J2EE-PHP Interoperability: "The Zend Platform's PHP/Java Bridge provides the ability for PHP developers to create applications that interact with Java objects. Using the overloading capabilities just mentioned, Java objects can be instantiated and manipulated from within PHP scripts as if they were native PHP objects."
An Introduction to Groovy and Grails
Lego vs Playmobil : Is Drupal that hard, or is building a site hard? | webschuur.com
David Herron's Blog: Quick test of Resin's PHP support -- using Drupal: "the potential big win of using a PHP implementation written in Java"