I've found it very useful to use Delicious to keep track of the interesting tech stories I find each week, but I'm worried about overwhelming this blog with these updates. It HAS forced me to add other postings as well, which is good...
For the time being I'll continue posting these summaries, but would love any sort of feedback you might have in the comments! This week includes stories related to:
SQL and DB2 SQL Tuning and how fast dev hardware could degrade SQL performance
With Optim Development Studio, DBAs and developers now have the ability to see and manipulate the actual SQL that is being used by the Java program in the context of the actual line of source code that produced the SQL. In addition, Optim Development Studio provides visualization capabilities that allow developers to see which SQL statements cost the most and, maybe even more important, how often they are run. Finally, the new query tuning offerings provide tuning advice designed to help developers and DBAs collaborate effectively to produce fast, less costly enterprise-ready database applications.
It is a common and unwise practice to think that your development, test, and QA hardware should have a hardware configuration similar to your production environment. In fact, I assert and suggest that this practice is a really BAD idea. When development and test machines have memory and CPU resources on par with the production environment, it is far too easy for physical design problems to hide behind all of that memory and horsepower. Let's please stop this insanity and instead use hardware configurations that will assure success in production.
Looking for a way to quickly and easily add great looking and functional charts and graphs to your web pages with JavaScript? This two part guide looks at how easy it is to get Dojo Charting up and running, and then examines in greater detail the options available for different looks for your charts. Starts with a basic example and then examine all the options available in defining your plot type. Part 2 covers the options available in defining the axes and data sets for your charts.
It is a common and unwise practice to think that your development, test, and QA hardware should have a hardware configuration similar to your production environment. In fact, I assert and suggest that this practice is a really BAD idea. When development and test machines have memory and CPU resources on par with the production environment, it is far too easy for physical design problems to hide behind all of that memory and horsepower. Let's please stop this insanity and instead use hardware configurations that will assure success in production.
With the success of Web 2.0, collaboration software has become a hot topic. Whether it is publig systems, like Google Wave, or systems designed for within the enterprise, like Louts Connections:
In the following pages you will find 10 essays on such trends written by some of the smartest thinkers in digital marketing. These ideas, when looked at together, reveal four key themes
Project Vulcan is catching some attention here at IBM's annual Lotusphere event in Orlando. It isn't set for developer release until the second half of this year, but its potential as an all-encompassing cloud-based collaboration service is causing many to compare it to Google Wave. Project Vulcan is being described as the next generation of Lotus Notes. It's an aggregation or federation of email, calendars, profiles, to do lists and social analytics all in one place. It's designed to filter out noise from real-time conversations, make recommendations and provide relevant content. Sounds a lot like Google Wave.
A concept for the future of collaboration, including the future of Lotus Notes, from IBM Lotus. Called IBM Project Vulcan, the demonstration highlighted several components to the Lotus collaboration vision.
Guest: Jeff Davis introduces Open Source SOA, a methodology for developing applications using accessible, discrete, reusable components. The conversation was full of TLA (3 letter acronyms) like BPM, ESP, and SCA all of which are explained in his book - see http://jdavis.open-soa.info/blog/?page_id=5for details.
Gavin Bell's new book, Building Social Web Applications, synthesizes a wealth of practical knowledge gleaned from his own long career as a web developer and from interviews with fellow practitioners. In this conversation he reviews the key principles and patterns that define what we today call the social web but will soon simply refer to as the web.
Not too long ago, Jad was invited to contribute to In C Remixed, a compilation of remixed versions of the 1964 Terry Riley piece that quietly changed the world of classical music (and eventually pop music too). In this podcast, Jad talks to musicians Michael Lowenstern and Zoe Keating about their remixes, what they did and why.
