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Office suites
Last month, my review of StarOffice 8 was published. It had a subtitle of “Office Killer? – Alternatives to Microsoft Office”. I’ve mentioned this before, and I’ve been giving the matter some more thought. I’m not entirely sure I agree with the ap…
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Building a grid using Web services standards
The sixth and final part of the “Building a grid with Web services standards”, title “Monitoring and execution” is finally available. The final tutorial in the series wraps up the system by looking at the role of WS-Notification in the management …
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Apache Session Management Within Dynamic Sites
As a follow on to an earlier piece about session management natively in Apache, I’ve written a follow up that looks more closely at the issue of developing sites that use cookies for ID and session management. In this article, I cover the mechanic…
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Building a grid with web Services, Part 5
Part 5 of the Building a grid with Web services series is now available on the IBM developerWorks site. In this part we cover the management and flow of information and work through the grid. This is the part where movies submitted to the grid are…
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StarOffice 8 Review – Office Killer?
LinuxPlanet have just recently published my very detailed StarOffice 8 review. To summarize, I like it, and with a few caveats, it gives Microsoft Office a run for its money. The article is spread over a number pages, with screenshots, a brief TOC…
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System Administrators Toolkit: Process administration tricks
I’ve just started a new series at IBM developerWorks looking at UNIX related system administration tricks. The aim is to cover some generic tips and help on a particular area (for example, process administration), and not only handle the tricks on…
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Write software for multiple UNIX platforms
I have a new tutorial on writing software for multiple UNIX platforms at IBM developerWorks. The focus is on the technical aspects, such as header and library availability, build environments and understanding what some of the key elements are. I …
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Understanding the Virtual Machine/SOA migration
Here is a quick diagram of the differences between the model for migrating existing applications from the traditional model to the Virtual Machine or the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model.
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Grid Meter mentions Grid/Web Services Series
Greg Nawrocki, over at Grid Meter, has mentioned the convergence of SOA (Service Oriented Architectures) and Grid technology, and points readers to my recent Building a Grid with Web Services series (which I wrote with Tyler Anderson). I agree 100…
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Moving to MySQL
Starting in April I will be a member of the documentation team for MySQL. Among many other projects and responsibilities my main area of focus will be redeveloping on the connector documentation (i.e. the interfaces between MySQL and ODBC, JDBC, p…