WebSpherePower Magazine http://www.webspherepower.com/ WebSpherePower News Headlines http://www.webspherepower.com/ http://images.zatz.com/zatz/resources/pageimages/journallogos/webspherepowerRSSLogo.gif 40 144 Copyright © 2005, ZATZ Publishing, a unit of Component Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. info@ZATZ.com info@ZATZ.com Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:27:07 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ZATZ ZENPRESS 6.0a1 PostgreSQL 8.4 Released, Now Easier to Use Than Ever The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released version 8.4 containing enhancements to make administering, querying, and programming of PostgreSQL databases easier.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045130.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045130.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Security Guide This new Redbook can be downloaded as a PDF. It covers what you need to implement secure solutions with WebSphere Application Server V7.0, including administrative and infrastructure security, application security, and z/OS specifics.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045129.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045129.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT All SaaS-Ed Up Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is gradually becoming a real product as companies start moving their computing services into the cloud.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045128.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045128.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Sun's VirtualBox 3.0 exits betaland VirtualBox 3.0 is out of beta and now available as open-source or, if you're installing an enterprise, you can buy a subscription.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045105.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045105.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Capitalware releases MQ Channel Monitor v1.0.0 for Free The MQ Channel Monitor v1.0.0 (MQCM) application, licensed under Apache License 2, is designed to gather and display the status of MQ channels of the queue manager, automatically refreshing the display every 60 seconds .

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045106.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045106.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT OpsWise Software Announces Workload Automation Broker for Cloud Computing OpsWise's Workload Automation Broker for the cloud can be deployed as a cloud solution or manage cloud resources from the traditional data center.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045107.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045107.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT O'Reilly Webcast: Cloud Computing: The Next Frontier for Open Source In this free, hour-long, presentation, on Thursday, July 9th at 10 am PT, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus will discuss why cloud computing is a significant driver of enterprise open source adoption.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045108.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045108.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT WaveMaker 5.1 Makes Web Development Easier Than Ever Improvements to WaveMaker 5.1 include: a new Diagnostics tab; Context sensitive help; Simplified binding; and Type validation flags.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045093.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045093.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Sun Delivers NetBeans 6.7 NetBeans 6.7, a new version of the open-source IDE for Java developers, has been released by Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans developer community. The new version includes support for Maven and Zembly, improved PHP support, and more.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045092.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045092.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT The SAP Help Ecosystem: A Paradigm in Crisis A recent survey conducted by cumulusIQ discovered that SAP customers feel they're paying too much for SAP help.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045091.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045091.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Natural Language Processing with Python Natural languages are those spoken between humans. Artificial languages are those used between humans and machines. This book covers using Python programs to extract information from unstructured text and analyze linguistic structures.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045090.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045090.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT US wants more time to probe Oracle's Sun deal The Department of Justice is still concerned about anti-trust issues in Oracle's deal to buy Sun Microsystems and may extend their review period.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045073.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045073.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Feathered fuel tank soaks up hydrogen While it sounds like something from a bad cartoon, chicken feathers - heated to a crisp - are highly efficient at holding hydrogen for use in fuel cells thereby solving two problems.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045075.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045075.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT WebSphere Business Process Management (BPM) 6.2.0 Performance Tuning This newly updated Draft Redpaper, available as a PDF download, covers best practices and tuning tips for Process Server, Enterprise Service Bus, Integration Developer, Business Monitor, and Business Services Fabric.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045074.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045074.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Ruby Best Practices "Ruby Best Practices" was written by Gregory Brown, developer of the Ruby project Prawn. He includes chapters on driving code through tests, designing APIs, and project maintenance to help you write better code.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045051.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045051.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Rivals move to flag IBM as anticompetitive in mainframes Cloud computing favors "big iron", mainframe computers. Microsoft writes code for smaller systems. Now The Computer & Communications Industry Association, funded by Microsoft, is calling foul against IBM.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045050.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045050.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Top 10 Reasons the Firewall Guy's Hair is on Fire Provided, of course, that the firewall guy hasn't pulled all his hair out trying to keep the firewall working, he might find this article rather humorous.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045049.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045049.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Even Faster Web Sites--Performance Best Practices for Web Developers In this book Steve Souders, along with eight technical experts, provides techniques to help you optimize website's performance with information on getting JavaScript, networks, and browsers to work together.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045036.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045036.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Instantiations Tweaks Product Line for Eclipse Galileo Now that Galileo, Eclipse 3.5, has been released, Instantiations Inc. has updated its line of products including CodePro AnalytiX and WindowBuilder Pro.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045037.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045037.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Scott Hebner on Jazz and Eclipse In this 2-minute video Scott Hebner discusses Eclipse and IBM Rational's Jazz with SearchSOA.com's Jack Vaughan.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045045.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045045.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets IBM announced additional features for the WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets platform. the new features are designed to help financial firms handle data from multiple, disparate sources and make electronic trading decisions more quickly.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045009.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045009.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Sun buffs InfiniBand for Constellation supers Sun Microsystems debuted its second-generation InfiniBand switch at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.

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A SHOCKING INVESTIGATION BY OUR OWN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
"This book reads like a scary thriller. Crossing political and technical lines with confidence and abandon, David Gewirtz weaves a story that will raise the eyebrows, and the neck hairs, of everyone who reads it."
-- Dan Shafer, author of more than 50 books

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045010.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045010.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT New WebSphere Portal 6.1 Flash demo You need Flash 7 to view this presentation properly. If you don't have Flash 7 installed/available, you can watch the "non-Flash version" of the slide show as a static display.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045011.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045011.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT David's on-the-air schedule

  • WDUN 550AM with Martha Zoller, Monday, July 6 at 10:30am
  • CRN Digital Talk, Financial Talk Radio with Tim Connolly, June 26 at 10:05am ET
  • WFTL 850AM with Russ Morley, Fort Lauderdale/Miami at June 26 at 7:12am
  • KRLD, Dallas with Mark Watkins (broadcast time tbd)
  • ABC TV, Thursday, June 25 (broadcast time tbd)
  • NBC TV, Thursday, June 25 (broadcast time tbd)
  • FOX News with Rick Levanthal, Wednesday June 18 at 4:30pm ET
  • WDUN 550AM with Billy and Joel, Thursday, June 19 at 9:20am ET
  • News Talk 550 KTSA with Chris Duel, Thursday, June 19 at 1:07pm ET
  • WIST, 690am in New Orleans, Wednesday, June 24 at 11:05am ETDavid's also been interviewed by a bunch of Web and print journalists. We'll post links to those articles as they're published.

    Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045027.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045027.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT Eclipse worms into Apple Cocoa, iPhone The Eclipse Foundation has released Eclipse 3.5, code name Galileo, which includes 33 projects this year.

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    ]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045008.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00045008.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Programming Clojure Clojure is a general-purpose language with direct support for Java, a modern Lisp dialect, and support for functional programming. In this book Stuart Halloway shows you how to write applications in a modern, functional style using Clojure.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044989.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044989.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Hadoop: The Definitive Guide-MapReduce for the Cloud Author Tom White shows you how to use the Apache Hadoop framework,an open source implementation of the MapReduce algorithm, to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044990.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044990.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Water-Cooled Supercomputer Doubles as Dorm Space Heater Computers use electricity and produce heat. To cut the expense of cooling the computers, IBM is proposing to water-cool a supercomputer and use its waste heat to heat other buildings.

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    ]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044992.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044992.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Free IBM Webcast - "Free" Open Source Portals: Myth, Hype, or Reality? Suzanne O Minassian has posted information about an hour-long webcast scheduled for Tuesday, July 7, 2009 on how to evaluate "free" and commercial software. Registration is required.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044976.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044976.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Sun Aims High with Java Store Though still in Beta, the Java Store will have an edge on other application stores. There are over 800 million Java desktop users worldwide and an unknown number of applications already written.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044975.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044975.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Busting the Nine Myths of Cloud Computing Cloud computing has created a cloud of myths surrounding it. This article takes nine of the more common myths and attempts to de-mythologize them.

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    PISTOLSTAR: ENHANCED SECURITY & COMPLIANCE FOR WEBSPHERE
    Users authenticate and self-manage passwords from a browser, while administrators meet security and regulatory compliance objectives.

    • Self-service password recovery/reset via challenge question/answer
    • Powerful authentication and password security
    • Configurable # of strikes for account lockout
    • Password strength rules
    • Limit multiple, concurrent logon sessions
    • Lockout inactive users after 'n' days
    • Auditing/Logging


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    ]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044974.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044974.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Sun kicks out VirtualBox 3.0 beta VirtualBox 3.0 will include support for multiple processors within guest virtual machine partitions and guest partitions will be able to span up to 32 virtual processors.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044953.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044953.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Getting a grip on JavaFX 1.2 for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) This article starts off with the advice that applications created with JavaFX 1.1 need to be recompiled to work under JavaFX 1.2. Free site registration is required to read this article.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044952.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044952.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     SAP Backup using Tivoli Storage Manager This new Redbook, available as a PDF or as HTML, includes basic SAP data management considerations, as well as archiving under the IBM DB2 CommonStore for SAP, LAN-free backup, and FlashCopy.

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    ]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044951.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044951.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Moore's Law Reaching End of Life: Study The cost of making ever smaller, faster chips will soon reach the point of "no financial return" as the chips will become too expensive to deploy.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044936.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044936.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Microsoft axes .Net link to Oracle DBMS Microsoft is cutting back on its product list. The latest software to be "deprecated" is OracleClient, the ADO.Net provider for Oracle shipped as part of the .Net Framework.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044937.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044937.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Capitalware releases MQ File Mover v3.0.0 for Free The MQ File Mover v3.0.0 (MQFM) application is designed to move files using WebSphere MQ by processing "Action" commands controlled through an MQFM Workflow XML file.

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    ]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044938.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044938.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     MyEclipse 7.5 Blue Edition: Agile WebSphere Development That Runs on Your Laptop MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench Blue Edition 7.5 delivers extensive speed upgrades, and includes UML2, Remote Websphere Deployment, a unique Visual SQL Query Builder, and a first class VisualVM Java Profiler.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044939.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044939.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     Bizarre Bugs: 9 of the Strangest Software Glitches Ever Buggy code is relatively easy to write. The manner in which such bugs make themselves known is more interesting. This article discusses nine doozies found between 1994 and 2008.

    Read | Permalink]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044917.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044917.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT     University Flees Fire with Network in a Box Lending new meaning to "disaster planning", when fire threatened the campus of the Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, the IT staff put the virtualized network in a cardboard box and drove away with it.

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    SUN VIRTUALIZATION OFFERINGS FOR IBM WEBSPHERE INFRASTRUCTURES
    Increase the value of your enterprise IT environment through server consolidation

    • Reduced costs lead to improved TCO
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    ]]>     http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044916.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00044916.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT