CohesiveFT is one of the more interesting vendors that you probably haven't heard much about yet. Their "Elastic Servers" are custom application stacks as virtual images.
Basically, they have created a "software chassis" for VM images to rolled on-demand. The company maintains libraries of components and customers may add their own proprietary components to the library (for their use only) and construct the image of a virtual application stack. The resulting images are built, encapsulated, given a unique identity and injected with management and integration services.
For example you can quickly create a VM image of Mule with a variety of accessories and run it locally or on EC2.
Now that they have been named one of InfoWorld's top 10 tech startups, I suspect you'll start seeing more of CFT.
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- SaaS
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The latest episode of our Open Season podcast series is live for your enjoyment.
This time, former Sleepycat/Oracle bigwig Mike Olson joins us and provides clarity across our mess of discussion. What do we talk about?
* The Jim Gray tribute
* The OLPC is the worst kind of charity
* CBS splashes for CNET
* We bring you the touch screen missile command
* Middleware is over and the cloud is a disaster
* People seem not too moved by JavaFX
* Matt on the open source free ride
Oddly enough my post was on the fact that the CNet blog tool ate my last post about CohesiveFT. I am sure we will find it sooner or later.
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- Market Dynamics,
- Disruptors,
- Cloud Computing
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I found Bruce Lee's Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape over on the Positivity Blog (ironic link on Negative Approach, I know.)
If there was anyone who can you look to as your business of warfare mentor, it's Bruce Lee, and sometimes Chuck Norris, though rarely Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (unless you need a skyhook) despite his role in kung-fu movies.
Bruce Lee's Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your Life in Shape
1. What are you really thinking about today?
2. Simplify.
3. Learn about yourself in interactions.
4. Do not divide.
5. Avoid a dependency on validation from others.
6. Be proactive.
7. Be you.
As applications and infrastructure move into the Cloud the need for management becomes more important all the time. This set of Cloud Tools for deploying and testing Java EE applications comes as a Maven plugin to make your life even easier.
Components:
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are configured to run Tomcat and work with EC2Deploy
EC2Deploy - the core framework. See this blog entry for an overview
A Maven plugin that uses EC2Deploy to deploy a web application to EC2
Via Cote
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- Cloud Computing
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- Open Source,
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Basically the page never loads, it just gives me that blue bar but never reaches the finish line. I've reset the cache, rebooted, reset Firefox entirely and will now try and reinstall. Hard to see what else would make this go away. Back to Safari I will go.
I wonder how this factors into the 99.999% uptime guarantee? I presume since the IMAP is still working that the uptime is met...though I have to say this really puts the idea of a completely browser-based lifestyle in question.
Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0
(Credit: Amazon.com)I've been giving her a bit of a hard time that I don't really care about the story (I am still waiting for my copy from Amazon) but the truth is I am just jealous that she wrote a book and it's not about me!
Sarah also convinced me that I have to take Twitter seriously so I just got a shiny new name. I am now Daveofdoom on Twitter, a nod to my ongoing devotion to Black Sabbath.
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There are two main audiences for the SearchMonkey Guide:
SearchMonkey developers are front end engineers who build presentation applications, small PHP applications that enhance search results. Most presentation applications are fairly simple and do not necessarily require deep working knowledge of PHP.SearchMonkey site owners are site owners who are responsible for delivering data about their site's pages for SearchMonkey developers to build upon.
Site owners are responsible for data, while developers are responsible for presentation. Smaller projects might assign the developer and site owner roles to the same person, but larger projects tend to have more specialized roles.
This functionality will likely be glossed over by Yahoo's ongoing shareholder ordeal, but the innovation here proves that Yahoo has a lot more going on than we generally give them credit for. They also did a really nice job of documenting everything--which is a general engineering nightmare.
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I got a call yesterday morning from the manager at the Verizon store where I had a not great experience last week. I am happy to say that me and VZW are back to being BFF.
All he really knew was that the call center had told him that I had a very negative experience in the store and he called me personally to ask what happened. This is the kind of customer service that I have always seen from Verizon and I appreciate the effort that they made.
As a side note for all you commenters, I am not getting anything for free, nor am I getting anything for this post.
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- Off-Topic,
- Economics,
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Nominations are officially opening for the 3rd annual Sourceforge.net Community Choice Awards. This year, for the first time, the awards will be open to ALL open source projects, not just those that count SourceForge.net as home.
There's the open nominations period, then voting on the finals, and it leads up to the awards party during OSCON at the Jupiter Hotel in downtown Portland on July 24th. Last year it was a pretty big deal, with over 500 people attending. In the past it's been a good awards ceremony, kind of wide open and fun, food and drink, weirdo prizes.
Just to give you a taste, categories include:
Best Project
Best Project for the Enterprise
Best Project for Educators
Most Likely to Be the Next $1B Acquisition
Best Project for Multimedia
Best Project for Gamers
Most Likely to Change the World
Best New Project
Most Likely to Be Ambiguously Accused of Patent Violation
Most Likely to Get Users Sued
Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins
Best Tool or Utility for Developers
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