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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:47:00 GMT Microsoft SharePoint Connections 2010

De ontwikkelingen op gebied van SharePoint gaan razendsnel. Tijdens de SharePoint Conferentie in Las Vegas zijn veel belangrijke ontwikkelingen aangekondigd rond SharePoint 2010. Tijdens Microsoft SharePoint Connections 2010 kunt u in twee dagen de belangrijkste sessies bijwonen die het SharePoint-landschap het komende jaar zullen gaan veranderen.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:26:00 GMT Call for speakers: Code Camp 2009

Op 21 november 2009 organiseren de SDN, de dotNED User Group en VBcentral.nl samen de derde Nederlandse Code Camp. Een unieke dag, voortkomend uit een unieke samenwerking. Kenmerkend aan deze dag is, dat het een evenement is dóór ontwikkelaars en vóór ontwikkelaars!

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:19:16 GMT SharePoint Conference 2009 - "super"

"Super" is het sleutelwoord van niet alleen deze conferentie maar zeker ook van SharePoint 2010.
Steve Balmer en Jeff Teper (Corp. Vice President, Office Platform) hebben de conferentie geopend. "Super" was naast "SharePoint" wel het meest gebruikte woord van de keynote. Of het ook zo "super" is zullen we deze week wel achter komen.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:13:00 GMT Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Beschikbaar

Vanaf vandaag is Visual Studio Beta 2 beschikbaar voor MSDN leden. Ieder andere developer kan vanaf woensdag 21 oktober deze versie downloaden van de MSDN site.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:00:00 GMT Nederlandse CodeCamp 2009

Op 21 november 2009 organiseren de SDN, Stichting dotNed en VBcentral samen het derde Nederlandse Code Camp. Dit is een dag lang met code, code sharing, freaking en gezellig samenzijn. Een evenement door ontwikkelaars, voor ontwikkelaars. De regie ligt voor een belangrijk deel bij de deelnemers!

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:10 GMT Google flips switch on mobile YouTube banner ads

Phone vid traffic up '160%'

Google is now serving ads on the mobile incarnation of YouTube.â€¦

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:02:02 GMT LG 3D TV line to debut in May

Freeview HD and internet connectivity on board too

LG will release its 3D TV range in May, the company said today. The line-up will comprise a pair of LED TVs and a Blu-ray Disc player.â€¦

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:24:50 GMT Voltaire brings InfiniBand switch to the masses

Accelerators speed up cluster work

InfiniBand and Ethernet switch maker Voltaire this morning rolled out its Grid Director 4200, a midrange 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand switch that shoots the gap between its entry and high-end switches, and that is the product that Voltaire expects companies to buy as they adopt InfiniBand for database clustering and other HPC jobs.â€¦

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:13:48 GMT Pistol fired on Olympic honour campaign for Turing

Celebrated cryptographer was accomplished runner

The campaigner who led a successful effort last year to secure a public apology for the UK government's mistreatment of Alan Turing is calling for recognition of the celebrated cryptographer during the 2012 London Olympics.â€¦

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:10:18 GMT Cryptome: PayPal a 'liar, cheat and a thug'

Account still restricted

"PayPal is a fucking liar, a cheat and a thug," says Cryptome operator John Young. The eBay-owned payment service closed the Cryptome account last week, with over $5,000 of donations intended for Young in limbo.â€¦

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST Six Things VCs Look For in An Investment

As a serial entrepreneur, I learned a lot of lessons from things that didnâ€™t work. These lessons later on shaped my ideas on what would be needed to build a successful startup company. When I became a VC, I realized that these same lessons could be applied to helping evaluate the many businesses that I was getting to see. Whilst the following criteria are by no means a guarantee of success, or the only criteria that you should think about, I do believe they can be very helpful. So in no particular order, here is a list of six questions that I learned to ask to validate my own startup ideas, that now shape what I look for in an investment. I hope this list will help you validate your idea:

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST BIRT 2.5.2 Enhancements

As BIRT 2.5.2 was released recently, I wanted to post on some of the new features available in the release. BIRT 2.5.2 represents a maintenance release, which is generally dominated with bug fixes and not new enhancements, but this release does have a few that are worth noting. The SQL Query Builder is now directly available without creating a connection profile. When adding a new data source, the query builder is listed as one of the data sources available. After selecting the Query Builder data source you are prompted with a list of available databases. Once you select the type of database you can then specify the specific driver and connection properties that will be used.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST Digital Footprint and Virtual Social Influence

Iâ€™ve been thinking about my presence on the Internet from the early days, from my time at Argonne National Labs near Chicago in 1988-1989 and from my graduate school days at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1989-1992. That was even before the web browser days, which didnâ€™t come out till 1993-94... I’ve been thinking about my presence on the internet from the early days, from my time at Argonne National Labs near Chicago in 1988-1989 and from myÂ graduate school days at the University of Minnesota in MinneapolisÂ in 1989-1992. That was even before the web browser days, which didn’t come out till [...]

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST Introducing the Concept of the "Resource Cloud" at Cloud Expo 2010 in New York City

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whom most people know as an English poet, also wrote some very nice prose about words. For example he was the one who summed up poetry itself as being about, above all, choosing "the best possible words in the best possible order."

Another fellow who knew a thing or two about words was a predecessor of mine - by a few hundred years! - at Trinity College, Cambridge. His name was Archbishop Richard Chevenix Trench and he produced, among another things, a little volume call On The Study of Words. This was back in 1852.

At one point in this book, Trench is musing on the power of words and, in particular, the role that words play in paving the way for the public acceptance of ideas.

Some ideas, he notes, just don't seem to catch on until the right words are found to "nail" them down.

I was strongly reminded of Coleridge, and of Trench, when interviewing a technology CEO the other day about Cloud Computing. Because this particular CEO seemed to be a beacon of light amid the murky fog surrounding Cloud Computing. And what stuck in my mind particularly was his ability, just as Archbishop Trench noted, to "nail down" the essential value proposition of Cloud Computing.

One new term that he used and that struck me as particularly insightful was this: "Resource Cloud."

This term definitely resonates immediately with me as being one that will not just help, it will triumph. Instead of talking of hardware, of physical servers, what the world needs to do is think of there as existing a "Resource Cloud" in which providers of resources and consumers who use compute power are matched up.

"Those consumers don't need to know, and indeed don't care, where the resources are," said my CEO. "So let the providers with the hardware push it into the cloud while the consumers consume it by creating virtual machines."

He continued:

"'I need X terabytes of storage at this kind of performance level, let us say Grade A performance, and I need 30 CPU cores,' the consumer might say, and the providers will run the hardware necessary to supply that need. IT runs the hardware side, but it doesn't manage the virtual side. That is done by the customer at via their Virtual Data Center."

So this is his vision, the vision also known loosely as "Virtualization 2.0"

But to my ear, "Resource Cloud" is the stronger metaphor, with more likelihood of catching on. And in 21 days' time I will revisit this posting to add the name of the CEO concerned. He already has established himself as thought leader in the world of technology. I haven't a doubt that he will come very soon to be recognized too as the man who put datacenter virtualization on the map forever and for always with the introduction of this one colloquy: REsource Cloud."

What do you think? Is it the best term? Do you have a better one?

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:54:00 EST JDev 11gPS1 â€“ Java Editor 'Declaration Insight'

The JDev11gPS1 New Features page lists a large amount of improvements, including something called the "Declaration Insight". The New Features blurb lists this feature as "When declaring local variables from method calls, declaration insight can automatically add the declaration and assignment code as well as completing the method call." Like us, if you're using JDev11gPS1 you've probably already stumbled upon this feature and not realized it. You'll be familiar with the traditional Completion Insight. Say in an EntityImpl you're implementing a method and within you want to call the super class method to get the database transaction. However you've forgotten the function name, is it getDBTransaction or getDatabaseTransaction? This is easily solvable by starting to type the function name "getD" then activating Completion Insight, either via pressing Ctrl-Space or the Source menu's same named option. The editor will show the Completion Insight popup in blue with all the functions starting with "getD" in the super class stack, including the method weâ€™re interested in getDBTransaction.