A Large Scale Java oriented PaaS running on AWS
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How to Pick a Chart for Your Dashboard
May 1, 2012
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To help you (or perhaps to confound you further), I present the “Chart Chooser” or aka “Chart Selections Thought Starter” from www.extremepresentation.com.
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Talent Shortage Looms Over Big Data – WSJ.com
May 1, 2012
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One of the earliest tests for biggish data was applying it to the battlefield. The Pentagon ran a number of field exercises of its Force XXI—a device that allows commanders to track forces on the battlefield—around the turn of the century. The hope was that giving generals “exquisite situational awareness” (i.e. knowing everything about everyone on the battlefield) would turn the art of warfare into a science. What they found was that just giving bad generals more information didn’t make them good generals; they were still bad generals, just better informed.
(Full Story: Talent Shortage Looms Over Big Data – WSJ.com)
After Cheating Scandal, SAT and ACT Will Tighten Security – NYT
April 16, 2012
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Kathleen Steinberg, executive director for communications at the College Board, said roughly two million tests were taken last year, of which 3,000 scores were questioned and 1,000 canceled. An additional 750 students were dismissed from taking the test for various infractions, like having cellphones in the test center.
Ms. Steinberg said Educational Testing Service, which administers the SAT, spent $21 million on security in 2010-11. She said she did not know how much the additional measures would cost the company. She and Mr. Gomer of ACT Inc. said there would be no impact on the cost to students. The ACT now costs $34, or $49.50 with the writing component; the SAT costs $49.
(Full Story: After Cheating Scandal, SAT and ACT Will Tighten Security – NYT)
Who Wrote OpenStack Essex? A Deep Dive Into Contributions
April 16, 2012
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This means that more than a fifth of the contributors to OpenStack are on Rackspace’s payroll. HP has 19 people identified as contributors to OpenStack Essex.
We told you that Red Hat was contributing heavily to OpenStack in February. But at that time it wasn’t entirely clear where Red Hat fell. Turns out, its third in developers, with 12 developers contributing.
After Red Hat, there is Citrix (9), Nebula (8), Cisco Systems (6), Canonical (6), Piston Cloud (6), Dreamhost (4) and SUSE (4) in the top 10.
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Red Hat and 10Gen partner up to power development of open source Big Data platforms | VentureBeat
April 16, 2012
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Red Hat and 10Gen, the company behind the increasingly popular NoSQL database MongoDB, are partnering to help developers deliver on the promise of big data and the cloud.
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A Programming Model for Personal Clouds
April 16, 2012
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The event-based programming model for the Cloud is called a personal event network (PEN). Personal because each person—entity, really—has their own. A network because there is an interconnected collection of programs interacting in the PEN via event-based protocols.
The basic unit of execution in the PEN is a rule. Rules connect events to actions. Applications in the PEN are collections of rules, or rulesets.
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Keynote User Interface Design Libraries
April 16, 2012
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Dozens of presentation templates with thousands of vector UI components and royalty-free icons, meticulously hand-crafted in Apple Keynote, Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice Impress, and fully customizable without needing any design tool.
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Tuning JVM for a VM – Lessons Learned, Directly from VMware – Marakana
April 16, 2012
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This talk will present a lot of the innovation, practical insight, and lessons learned gained from the last year by a senior engineer from VMware who recently developed a Java ballooning solution called Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J)
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How Windows FreeCell Gave Rise To Online Crowdsourcing
April 16, 2012
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The idea to beat FreeCell sprang from a message posted by sci.math regular Russell Turpin on July 24, 1994, with the definitive title “FreeCell is NOT always winnable.” In his message, Turpin provided an example of an unwinnable FreeCell deal and asked fellow group members to help prove or disprove his gripe.
(Full Story: How Windows FreeCell Gave Rise To Online Crowdsourcing)
