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Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On: O'Reilly Conferences

June 28, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

It’s easy to forget that only 15 years ago, email was as fragmented as social networking is today, with hundreds of incompatible email systems joined by fragile and congested gateways. One of those systems – internet RFC 822 email – became the gold standard for interchange.

We expect to see similar standardization in key internet utilities and subsystems. Vendors who are competing with a winner-takes-all mindset would be advised to join together to enable systems built from the best-of-breed data subsystems of cooperating companies.
(Link: Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On: O’Reilly Conferences)

oreilly, web2.0

Discover why Pentaho Reporting Enterprise Edition is considered a core Business Intelligence (BI) need.

June 26, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Pentaho Reporting allows organizations to easily access, format, and distribute information to employees, customers, and partners.

* Flexible deployment from standalone desktop reporting, to interactive web-based reporting to enterprise business intelligence
* Broad data source support including relational, OLAP, or XML-based data sources
* Flexible output options including Adobe PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Rich Text Format, or plain text
* Wizard-driven report design for fast, easy report creation
* Web-based ad hoc query and reporting for business users
* Full-featured graphical Report Designer for report developers
* Enterprise Edition provides enhanced software functionality, comprehensive professional technical support, product expertise, certified software and software maintenance, and more
(Link: Discover why Pentaho Reporting Enterprise Edition is considered a core Business Intelligence (BI) need.)

bi, edw, mysql, reporting

mysql

InfoQ: Twitter, an Evolving Architecture

June 26, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Most of the tools used by Twitter are open source. The stack is made up of Rails for the front side, C, Scala and Java for the middle business layer, and MySQL for storing data. Everything is kept in RAM and the database is just a backup. The Rails front end handles rendering, cache composition, DB querying and synchronous inserts. This front end mostly glues together several client services, many written in C: MySQL client, Memcached client, a JSON one, and others.
(Link: InfoQ: Twitter, an Evolving Architecture)

scalability, twitter

twitter

Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable

June 26, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

But where’s the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you find advanced tools for using Twitter on your phone or your desktop? To answer all these questions and more, we’ve assembled The Twitter Guide Book, a complete collection of resources for mastering Twitter.
(Link: Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable)

tweet, twittertools

The Jack Welch MBA | The Economist

June 26, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

All of which raises a big question. Is GE’s poor performance since Mr Welch left a reflection of how good a job he did, and how hard he has been to replace? Or is it his legacy? What an excellent topic for a case-study discussion for the first batch of students taking the Jack Welch MBA.
(Link: The Jack Welch MBA | The Economist)

mba

scripty2: for a more delicious web

June 26, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

scripty2 is a powerful flexible JavaScript framework to help you write your own delicious visual effects & user interfaces
(Link: scripty2: for a more delicious web)

frameworks, javascript, scriptaculous

A Good Way to Change a Corporate Culture – Peter Bregman – HarvardBusiness.org

June 26, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

To start a culture change all we need to do is two simple things:
1. Do dramatic story-worthy things that represent the culture we want to create. Then let other people tell stories about it.
2. Find other people who do story-worthy things that represent the culture we want to create. Then tell stories about them.
(Link: A Good Way to Change a Corporate Culture – Peter Bregman – HarvardBusiness.org)

culture, leadership

22 Open Source PHP Frameworks To Shorten Your Development Time

June 25, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

PHP is so popular because it is relatively easy to learn compare to other language. Furthermore, there are a lot of great tutorials for beginner to get started. Although there are a lot of resources for us, but coding a site from scratch is very tough. Luckily, there are a lot of reliable PHP Framework which can shorten the development time. These frameworks are supported by huge community and they are willing to help if you face any problems.
(Link: 22 Open Source PHP Frameworks To Shorten Your Development Time)

php

userfly — Web usability testing made easy.

June 25, 2009 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

userfly.com provides instantaneous web user studies by recording user visits and letting you play them back to see every mouse movement, click, and form interaction. Conducting a user study doesn’t have to be expensive or a logistic nightmare. With userfly.com you can perform simple and cheap user testing with your real users. And it only takes one minute to set up!
(Link: userfly — Web usability testing made easy.)

testing, usability