This must be my week for being featured! Domino applications and the Portal API was featured in this week’s IBM Portal News: Lotus Domino is great for storing all sorts of information in one place, and WebSphere Portal is great for gathering information from all sorts of places. But how do you get the two [...]
I’ve been hearing a lot about A9 lately, but at first glance it doesn’t look like anything special. Just another search engine that uses Google’s database. Or is it? Not so, according to A9: The Future of Information Access?
Now featured on the developerWorks home page: The making of MetroSphere, Part 29: Understand the web.xml and portlet.xml files With all of the magic that goes on in the WebSphere
I’ve been publishing for IBM for a couple of years now, so I don’t even blink when they feature an article of mine, but this is really cool. Last summer, I took a trip to Austin Texas to sit in on a session of IBM engineers talking about their brand new Autonomic Computing initiative. I [...]
Now the featured story on developerWorks: A quick tour of autonomic computing Autonomic computing architecture is a range of software technologies that enable you to build an information infrastructure that can, to lesser and greater degrees, manage itself, saving countless hours (and dollars) in human management. And all this without giving up control of the [...]
Now on InformIT in the XML Reference Guide: Java in XSLT: Extension Functions Using XSLT to transform XML into another form has a lot of advantages, not the least of which is flexibility. When you want to change the output, you don’t have to go back to the code, you simply have to change the [...]
I’ve gotten tired of the fact that I can’t get CIHost to update any software on the server without charging me for it, so I sat down and wrote a standalone trackback tool. This is just a first version, and unfortunately, it only works in IE for the moment, but I’d appreciate comments on how [...]
Rogers Cadenhead points out that the free download of Laurence Lessig‘s Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity includes a standard copyright term, rather than the Founder’s Copyright of 14 years, with an option to renew for 14 more. Thing is, he also released it [...]
Sarah is always bugging me to come up with an idea for “the next big thing.” (I’ve got a pretty good track record of figuring out what the next trend is, but I never have the time or the funds to capitalize on it…) Anyway, Bill Gates gets to do the one thing I’d love [...]