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According to Ubuntu’s web site: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904overview

You can get the Final Release starting on April 23rd 2009….
let’s check back tomorrow!

Will keep you posted…

After the deal between IBM and SUN failed, Oracle comes up with the win!
more info at: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/

this excellent series of articles (2 out of 3) provides the definition, background, inner workings and forecast of Mashups and Enterprise SOA.

Part I includes:

• definition: “a user-centric micro-combination of standards-based internal and external data sources.”
• common characteristics:
• Collaborative - designed to be tagged/searchable/shared with others. User tagging, often called a 'folksonomy', helps users put meaning for themselves and others.
• Focused on the 'pack' - created, used, and shared among a small number of related individuals. Knowledge workers collaborate in small packs. Although they may be part of a larger group, they usually function as small teams when it comes to discrete information needs.
• Time-sensitive - Users need data now. Mashups usually have near real-time delivery requirements. They don't have time to wait for IT to "pre-integrate" data so they can get at it. The Web is real-time and business users have evolved to expect the same inside their enterprises.
• Non-invasive - There's no need to bring in a whole new set of infrastructure, as enterprise mashups run inside the current enterprise stack. This includes both mashup sources (databases, SOA services, etc.) and mashup destinations (portals, blogs, wikis, email, spreadsheets, etc.).
• Limited cleansing - The amount of data cleansing and normalization needed should be comparable to the amount of cleansing and normalization a user does in Excel. If there's more, you have a bigger problem that should be addressed concurrently with your mashup initiative.
• Have a face - Mashups usually have a face and the face is a widget. Just like mashups are "micro", so are the applications that front-end them. If the user is the recipient of the mashup, it's only natural for the user to be given a way to interact with the data.
• comparison w/ BPM, BI, EII and ESB
• use cases for Mashups
• architecture of Mashups
• the role of IT
• bottom line
• faster answers
• improved resource use
• new opportunities

 
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1326602

Part II includes:

• Why SOA architects should care…
• Mashups: delivering SOA to your users
• information right-sizing
• publishing and syndication
• Mashup-to-SOA publishing
• service virtualization
• inside-outside combinations

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1326603

Part III: coming soon from Chris Warner

Carpe diem !

Do you remember that today's gift is the present.
Do you live your life or do you LIVE your life?

Check out some of the pictures taken while LIVING life and observing the nature around:

Following from my previous post, here are the shortcut keys to make your work in remote desktop connection even more effective:

For those of you working with multiple machines (windows workstations or servers), here are a few useful switches to know when you are working w/ Remote Desktop:

For servers: /console is extremely useful if you use a standard and shared account w/ some of your colleagues

For workstations (and/or servers): /f, /v and /span are very useful based on your use (support vs actual work on the remote machines)

… over time, places and cultures

A great video showing the power of Excel and Web Services using Visual Studio 2008 and VSTO

(thanks Steven for the demo at the WSDF)

Having tried out elive, I looked for other linux distros using the Enlightenment window manager. And to my surprise, I ran into Luna Serena or OpenGEU.

The power and flexibility of Ubuntu and Gnome.
The magnificence and beauty of E17.
Perfect and fast even for a Virtual Machine.
Finally a fully functional Enlightenment Desktop.
OpenGEU: when a Gnome reaches Enlightenment.

More information available at: http://opengeu.intilinux.com/Home.html

So, like many of you, I have to provide some tech support to friends and family on a regular basis. For the last few years, I have been using TeamViewer for remote control, simply because it is fast, reliable, user friendly and free.

However, until now, it required for me to use one of my Windows machines to provide the support, or to buy a Mac.

Just for fun, I decided I was going to give it a try on a Linux (Ubuntu 8.10) machine which I was running at the time of the last support call.