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What is Islam

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:53:36 GMT

*What is Islam By Jamaal al-Din M. Zarabozo 2 *Preface In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful. All praises are due to Allah; we praise Him; we seek His help; we seek His forgiveness; and we seek His guidance. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil in our souls and the badness of our deeds. For whomever Allah guides, there is none to lead him astray. And for whomever He allows to go astray, there is none to guide him. I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, for whom there is no partner. And I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. I

Web development break down

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:26:40 GMT

Building a robust persistence layer

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:26:38 GMT

The Design of a Robust Persistence Layer For Relational Databases Scott W. Ambler Senior Consultant, Ambysoft Inc. www.ambysoft.com/scottAmbler.html http://www.ambysoft.com/downloads/persistenceLayer.pdf This Version: June 21, 2005 Copyright 1997-2005 Scott W. Ambler *2 Table Of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. GOOD THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS PAPER ........................................................................1 KINDS OF PERSISTENCE LAYERS.................................................................................................1 THE CLASS-TYPE ARCHITECTURE............................

Building Internet Scale Applications

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:26:35 GMT

On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services James Hamilton – Windows Live Services Platform ABSTRACT The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, whereas on industry leading, highly automated services, we’ve seen ratios as high as 2,500:1. Within Microsoft services, Autopilot [1] is often cited as the magic behind the success of the Windows Live Search team in achieving high system-to-administrator ratios. While auto-administration

The Register Salary Survey

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:26:33 GMT

Salary Survey 2008 An insight into the careers of the tech community *http://www.theregister.co.uk Key Findings Developers On Top When it comes to hands on technical roles, Software/Application Developers provide the best opportunity for bringing home the big bucks. For those motivated solely by money, these are ideal careers to pursue. No Clear Path & Badly Managed Constantly cited as the main source of staff unrest, poor management teams and a lack of clear career paths consistently blight employer image. Happy In The Job On the whole a vast majority of tech professionals are happy in th

WorkingEffectivelyWithLegacyCode

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:20:23 GMT

Working Effectively With Legacy Code Michael Feathers Object Mentor, Inc. mfeathers@objectmentor.com Last Change: April 9, 2002 Over the past fifteen years, much has been written about object oriented design and team development processes. The unfortunate thing is that much design and process advice assumes that your project is a blank page. In actuality, greenfield projects are noticably rare. Most projects carry some amount of legacy code. In many new development efforts, the amount of legacy code will overwhelm the amount of new code by factors of 100 to 1, or 1000 to 1. Needless to say, y

SpringOne-DataAccess-Pollack

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:20:22 GMT

Welcome to *Introduction to Data Access with Spring.NET Mark Pollack Principal CodeStreet LLC *Overall Presentation Goal Learn about Spring.NET's support for ADO.NET, O/R Mappers, and transaction management abstraction *Speaker’s Qualifications Mark Pollack is a founding partner at CodeStreet LLC, a software and consulting firm in the financial services industry. .NET and J2EE architect and developer specializing in front office solutions, EAI, and message based middleware Spring Developer (2003) • JmsTemplate Founder of Spring.NET (2004) Co-lead of Spring.NET with Aleks Seovic *Out

software-architecture-document-guidelines-v0 1

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:20:16 GMT

Software Architecture Document Guidelines The purpose of the software architecture document (SAD) is to provide the following : 1. An outline description of the software architecture, including major software components and their interactions. 2. A common understanding of the architectural principles used during design and implementation. 3. A description of the hardware and software platforms on which the system is built and deployed. 4. Explicit justification of how the architecture meets the non-functional requirements. The following sections illustrate the content that should be included i

marketingplanvesion2 1

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:20:14 GMT

The World’s Shortest Marketing Plan, Version 2.1 www.kellyodell.blogspot.com What Product What does the product have to do? Where in the virtual and physical world do we need to sell our product? Why What articulated wants or unarticulated needs does it fill? Why will the marketplaces and market spaces distribute our product? When What is the window of opportunity? How will our presence change during the lifecycle of our product? When can we credibly go after opinion leaders and early adopters? H

FAST-IntroductionSpringNet

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:20:12 GMT

Introduction to Spring.NET *Speaker’s Qualifications Mark Pollack is a founding partner at CodeStreet LLC, a software and consulting firm in the financial services industry. .NET and J2EE architect and developer specializing in financial front office solutions, EAI, and message based middleware Spring Developer (2003) • JmsTemplate, Annotation abstraction Contributing author • Java Development with the Spring Framework – JMS Section Founder and Co-lead of Spring.NET (2004) Speaker at various Spring related conferences *Outline Why a .NET version? Introduction to IoC/AOP Core Spring

10 Most Important Ideas in Software Development

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:17:27 GMT

Construx Software Development Best Practices ® The 10 Most Important Ideas in Software Development © 2006 Construx Software Builders, Inc. All Rights Reserved. www.construx.com Most Key Ideas Are Not New Q: What are the most exciting/promising software engineering ideas or techniques on the horizon? A: I don’t think that the most promising ideas are on the horizon. They are already here and have been here for years but are not being used properly. — David L. Parnas “Software Development Best Practices” 2 *Construx Software Development Best Practices ® #1 Software Development

The Motivation Pocketbook

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:22:16 GMT

THE MOTIVATION POCKETBOOK By Max A. Eggert Drawings by Phil Hailstone BA, BSc, MA, F.IPD, Dip Clin Hyp “One of the best I have seen on the complex subject of motivation. Max has managed to integrate and synthesise a plethora of data into a compact, concise and very readable form. Good reading.” Tony Grant-Salmon, Managing Director, Knowles Europe. To the late great Hugh S. Knowles who not only knew all this stuff but was humble enough to put it into practice. Special thanks to Caitlyn Barnier who created the WP version from both poor spelling and handwriting. *MANAGEMENT POCKETBOOKS Pub

Practical Distributed Processing

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:21:46 GMT

Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science *Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTiCS) delivers high-quality instructional content for undergraduates studying in all areas of computing and information science. From core foundational and theoretical material to final-year topics and applications, UTiCS books take a fresh, concise, and modern approach and are ideal for self-study or for a one- or two-semester course. The texts are all authored by established experts in their fields, reviewed by an international advisory board, and contain numerous examples and problems. Many include fully w

better builds with maven

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:42:51 GMT

*Better Builds with Maven The How-to Guide for Maven 2.0 John Casey Vincent Massol Brett Porter Carlos Sanchez Jason van Zyl *Better Builds with Maven. The How-to Guide for Maven 2.0 © 2006 Mergere, Inc. The contents of this publication are protected by U.S. copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication or any portion of it is strictly prohibited. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and the authors assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of information c

Tcp

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:16:20 GMT

TCP - Transmission Control Protocol (TCP Connection Setup and Release) Client Node Internet Server Node Client Network Server Client App Client Socket Network Server Socket Server App EventHelix.com/EventStudio 1.0 17-Mar-02 13:02 (Page 1) Copyright (c) 2002 EventHelix.com Inc. All Rights Reserved. LEG: About TCP TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) provides a reliable end to end service that delivers packets over the Internet. Packets are delivered in sequence without loss or duplication. Server Application creates a Socket Closed The Socket is created in Closed state seq_num = 100 Server se

SIP PSTN Call Flow

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:16:19 GMT

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP Tutorial: SIP to PSTN Call Flow) SIP Network Subscriber SIP Client VOIP Network PSTN Network Alice Proxy 1 NGW 1 Switch EventHelix.com/EventStudio 2.5 10-Jun-05 22:33 (Page 1) This call flow diagram was generated with EventStudio Sequence Diagram Designer 2.5 (http://www.EventHelix.com/EventStudio). LEG: Brief This article is based on the call flow presented in http://www.iptel.org/info/players/ietf/callflows/draft-ietf-sipping-pstn-call-flows-02.txt and is reproduced here as per the copyright statement at the end of this document. In this scenario, Alice (s

ScrumSmells

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:16:16 GMT

Toward a Catalog of Scrum Smells By Mike Cohn Even with Scrum things can go wrong. As diligent ScrumMasters it is our responsibility to constantly keep an eye on our projects and look for small problems before they can become big problems. In his book Refactoring, Martin Fowler introduced the term smell to refer to something that may not be right. Just because something smells doesn’t mean there’s a problem; it does mean, though, that further investigation is warranted. This article is a first step toward collecting a catalog of Scrum smells; that is, signs that something may be amiss on a

navigating ws star

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:16:14 GMT

http://envoisolutions.com Navigating WS-* Table of Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 1 WS-Addressing ........................................................................................................................................ 2 WS-Policy ................................................................................................................................................ 4 WS-ReliableMessaging ....................................................

Live Journal Behind the Scene

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:15:57 GMT

LiveJournal: Behind The Scenes Scaling Storytime April 2007 Brad Fitzpatrick brad@danga.com danga.com / livejournal.com / sixapart.com This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA. http://www.danga.com/words/ *LiveJournal Overview ● ● ● ● college hobby project, Apr 1999 4-in-1: – blogging – forums – social-networking (“friends”) – aggregator:

flickr php

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:15:47 GMT

Flickr and PHP Cal Henderson *What’s Flickr • Photo sharing • Open APIs *Logical Architecture Photo Storage Database Node Service Application Logic Page Logic Templates Email Flickr.com API Endpoints 3rd Party Apps Flickr Apps Users *Physical Architecture Static Servers Database Servers Node Servers Web Servers Users *Where is PHP? Photo Storage Database Node Service Application Logic Page Logic Templates Email Flickr.com API Endpoints 3rd Party Apps Flickr Apps Users *Other than PHP? • • • • • • • Smarty for templating PEAR for XML and Email parsing Perl for con

Designing for Community

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:15:05 GMT

Designing for Improved Social Responsibility, User Participation and Content in On-Line Communities Sean Uberoi Kelly Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research 1 Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 USA +1 425 705 2736 seankell@microsoft.com ABSTRACT Christopher Sung eTonal Media, inc. 5 Peter Cooper Road Suite 4C NY, NY 10010 +1 212 228 6794 chris@etonal.com We then discuss specifically how the sites use that data to effect improved social responsibility and awareness, active participation, and ease of navigation and filtering for desired content. Background Web sites face difficult challenges

Coding across continents

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:14:59 GMT

Coding Across Continents: Todd Fast Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://www.sun.com TS-7302 Technologies for Remote, Real-time, Collaborative Software Development Copyright © 2005, Sun Microsystems Inc., All rights reserved 2005 JavaOne Conference | Session 7302 SM *Goals What You Will Learn in This Session Use cases for developer collaboration. How to use several new technologies to create collaboration-aware applications 2005 JavaOne Conference | Session 7302 | SM 2 *Agenda Developer Collaboration Defined Case Study: Developer Collaboration in Java Studio Enterprise Announcements Collabor

The-Deployment-Pipeline-by-Dave-Farley-2007

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:11:55 GMT

The Deployment Pipeline (Extending the range of Continuous Integration) Dave Farley 2007 Continuous Build A core practice in Agile development projects is the use of Continuous Integration. CI is a process by which builds and extensive suites of automated test cases are run at the point that software is committed to the version control system. This practice has been in use on projects for many years and provides a high degree of security that at any given point the software under development will successfully build and pass its unit-test suite. This significantly increases confidence that the

Understanding your customers

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:04:34 GMT

Understanding your customers The better you understand your customers, the more responsive you can be to their needs. The DTI drives our ambition of ‘prosperity for all’ by working to create the best environment for business success in the UK. We help people and companies become more productive by promoting enterprise, innovation and creativity. We champion UK business at home and abroad. We invest heavily in world-class science and technology. We protect the rights of working people and consumers. And we stand up for fair and open markets in the UK, Europe and the world. By looking at the

The New XP

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:04:22 GMT

The New XP Michele Marchesi “Even programmers can be whole people in the real world. XP is an opportunity to test yourself, to be yourself, to realize that maybe you’ve been fine all along and just hanging with the wrong crowd.” Kent Beck in Extreme Programming Explained — Second Edition In October, 1999, Kent Beck’s book “Extreme Programming Explained — Embrace Change” was published. Well, you may love or hate XP, but for sure you cannot say it was irrelevant. By publishing his book, sold in hundreds of thousand copies and translated in tens of languages, Beck started the tid

Technology, Customers and Suppliers

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:04:15 GMT

Technology, customers and suppliers The DTI drives our ambition of ‘prosperity for all’ by working to create the best environment for business success in the UK. We help people and companies become more productive by promoting enterprise, innovation and creativity. We champion UK business at home and abroad. We invest heavily in world-class science and technology. We protect the rights of working people and consumers. And we stand up for fair and open markets in the UK, Europe and the world. More businesses – large and small – are working in partnership with each other. Trading is incr

Search engine positioning

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:04:06 GMT

SEARCH ENGINE POSITIONING FACTSHEET One of the major ways that people find information on the internet is by using a search engine. By understanding how they work, you can raise the profile of your website and so attract more visitors. WHAT IS SEARCH ENGINE POSITIONING? Simply put, the internet is vast: there are billions of web pages, with millions of new ones added every day. Unless your business is an established global brand, you will face enormous competition trying to attract people to your site. Research has shown that only 10% of web users will look past the second page of results on

PASA: Fixing software performance problems

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:04:04 GMT

Copyright © 2002, Software Engineering Research and Performance Engineering Services. All rights reserved. PASASM: An Architectural Approach to Fixing Software Performance Problems Lloyd G. Williams Software Engineering Research 264 Ridgeview Lane Boulder, Colorado 80302 (303) 938-9847 boulderlgw@aol.com Connie U. Smith Performance Engineering Services PO Box 2640 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87504-2640 (505) 988-3811 http://www.perfeng.com/ When fixing performance problems in new or existing software or determining whether a proposed system will meet its performance objectives, taking an archite

E-marketing

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:04:00 GMT

E-marketing The DTI drives our ambition of ‘prosperity for all’ by working to create the best environment for business success in the UK. We help people and companies become more productive by promoting enterprise, innovation and creativity. We champion UK business at home and abroad. We invest heavily in world-class science and technology. We protect the rights of working people and consumers. And we stand up for fair and open markets in the UK, Europe and the world. E-mail, websites and other technologies are giving businesses better and more flexible ways to market their goods and servi

Mapreduce

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:03:54 GMT

MapReduce: Simpliﬁed Data Processing on Large Clusters Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat jeff@google.com, sanjay@google.com Google, Inc. Abstract MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a map function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and a reduce function that merges all intermediate values associated with the same intermediate key. Many real world tasks are expressible in this model, as shown in the paper. Programs written in this functional style are aut

Inspirational Leadership

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:03:49 GMT

Inspirational Leadership The DTI drives our ambition of ‘prosperity for all’ by working to create the best environment for business success in the UK. We help people and companies become more productive by promoting enterprise, innovation and creativity. We champion UK business at home and abroad. We invest heavily in world-class science and technology. We protect the rights of working people and consumers. And we stand up for fair and open markets in the UK, Europe and the world. An inspired and motivated workforce is essential for any business that hopes to stay ahead of the competition.

An iteration in the life of XP project

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:03:43 GMT

An Iteration in the Life of an XP Project by Cara Taber and Martin Fowler houghtWorks, Inc. is a Chicago-based system integration and consulting company of around 300 people. We specialize in building demanding business applications using technology that is both new and strategic for the industry. We also work on complex business applications that usually require stitching together various components and augmenting these components with complicated and changing business logic. We’ve done a lot of work in the leasing industry, which is not known for simple and logical contractual agreements. I

Integration Patterns

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:03:32 GMT

Integration Patterns Integration Patterns p a t t er ns & p ra c t i c es David Trowbridge, Microsoft Platform Architecture Guidance Ulrich Roxburgh, Microsoft Consulting Services (Australia) Gregor Hohpe, ThoughtWorks, Inc. Dragos Manolescu, ThoughtWorks, Inc. E.G. Nadhan, EDS ISBN 0-7356-1850-X Information in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, is subject to change without notice. Unless otherwise noted, the example companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted herein are fictitious,

Ideas for business management

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:02:36 GMT

Ideas for business management This brochure looks at some of the key characteristics in successful business management. The DTI drives our ambition of ‘prosperity for all’ by working to create the best environment for business success in the UK. We help people and companies become more productive by promoting enterprise, innovation and creativity. We champion UK business at home and abroad. We invest heavily in world-class science and technology. We protect the rights of working people and consumers. And we stand up for fair and open markets in the UK, Europe and the world. No matter what

The Aroma Company

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:02:28 GMT

THE AROMA COMPANY The Aroma Company showed that transforming a good idea into a winning product takes patience, a strong vision and steady nerve. OBJECTIVES When Simon Harrop had an idea for a new way for retailers to promote products, he was determined to see it through to profitability. Simon’s brainwave was that it is smell, rather than performance, that is a key factor when people buy products like washing powders, shampoos and deodorants. He saw that retailers would welcome a device that would deter shoppers from tampering with packaging to find out what the contents smelled like. SOLU

Building an ecommerce website

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:02:25 GMT

Building an e-commerce website E-commerce is about using the internet to buy and sell goods and services online. The DTI drives our ambition of ‘prosperity for all’ by working to create the best environment for business success in the UK. We help people and companies become more productive by promoting enterprise, innovation and creativity. We champion UK business at home and abroad. We invest heavily in world-class science and technology. We protect the rights of working people and consumers. And we stand up for fair and open markets in the UK, Europe and the world. British consumers now

Best companies Best Practices

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:02:20 GMT

Best Companies: Best Practice Each year in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For survey, the best employers in the UK have the chance to showcase their best practice credentials, offering the secrets of their success to a wider public. Best Companies: Best Practice explores in further detail some of the forward-thinking practices which have given employees reason to comment so favourably about their places of work. This brochure is for: any business that wants to become a great place to work. It covers: three characteristics of best practice in depth: People development, Leadership a

secure-sessions-Web services

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:55:43 GMT

Secure Sessions for Web Services Karthikeyan Bhargavan Microsoft Research Ricardo Corin University of Twente and Microsoft Research Cedric Fournet ´ Microsoft Research Andrew D. Gordon Microsoft Research ABSTRACT WS-Security provides basic means to secure SOAP traffic, one envelope at a time. For typical web services, however, using WSSecurity independently for each message is rather inefficient; besides, it is often important to secure the integrity of a whole session, as well as each message. To these ends, recent specifications provide further SOAP-level mechanisms. WS-SecureConvers

MQWithdotNET

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:55:40 GMT

Front cover WebSphere MQ Solutions in a Microsoft .NET ET Environment Invoking WebSphere MQ from a .NET application WebSphere MQ as a SOAP transport mechanism .NET and J2EE integration using WebSphere MQ Saida Davies Michael Hamann Sachin Kulkarni Tony Shan Andrew Sheppard Ope-Oluwa Soyannwo Jerry Stevens Dong Kai Yu ibm.com/redbooks **International Technical Support Organization WebSphere MQ Solutions in a Microsoft .NET Environment January 2004 SG24-7012-00 *Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page xi. First Edition

DOTNETinSamples

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:53:07 GMT

.NET in Samples Jan eda, Skilldrive.com in Jan eda jan.seda@skilldrive.com -1- *.NET in Samples Jan eda, Skilldrive.com 1. Foreword Learning and using technologies is sometimes very boring and reading books takes too much time. Many developers use MSDN but there is a big issue - that there are too many articles and other sources that this huge quantity is not possible to absorb and confusing (maybe this is the reason why Russian search engine started a special indexer on MSDN itself, see http://msdn.rambler.ru). This is the reason why I don t like reading technical books or MSDN articles

An Introduction to Programming with C# Threads

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:51:52 GMT

An Introduction to Programming with C# Threads Andrew D. Birrell [Revised May, 2005] This paper provides an introduction to writing concurrent programs with “threads”. A threads facility allows you to write programs with multiple simultaneous points of execution, synchronizing through shared memory. The paper describes the basic thread and synchronization primitives, then for each primitive provides a tutorial on how to use it. The tutorial sections provide advice on the best ways to

Every One Is An Expert

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:51:36 GMT

*EVERYONE’S AN EXPERT (ON SOMETHING) Seth Godin 1 THIS BOOK is for anyone who wants more online traffic, more revenue, more followers, more attention, more interest, more donations or more influence. The paradox, of course, is that the best way to get all these things is by delivering less. This is a book about focus and meaning. Feel free to share it. For best viewing CLICK HERE Or choose the full screen view from the menu *EVERYONE’S AN EXPERT (ON SOMETHING) Seth Godin 2 ©2005, Squidoo LLC (www.squidoo.com) Copyright holder is licensing this under the Creative Commons license

Enterprise Services

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:45:21 GMT

Should You Be Using Enterprise Services? Rob Macdonald rob@salterton.com *Enterprise Services?  Some Background – MTS and COM+  .NET and the Middle Tier Should You Be Using Enterprise Services? (Slide 2) © Salterton Hill Ltd, 2003  Three Ways To Do a Distributed Transaction  To Use, Or Not To Use? *MTS  Microsoft developed MTS* to create an industrial strength environment for running large, distributed systems – – Addressed weakness of pure DCOM systems Provided distributed transaction capabilities Should You Be Using Enterprise Services? (Slide 3) © Salterton Hill

Delegates Demystified

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:45:18 GMT

Delegates Demystified - © Fortline Ltd, 2003 Delegates Demystified Tony Whalen Software Development Consultant, Fortline Technical Partner, The .NET Exchange tony@fortline.com *Agenda • • • • • • • • • Why the confusion ? What are delegates ? Simple Delegate Usage Multicasting Delegates Asynchronous Delegates Comparison with .OLD Events Best Practices Q&A Delegates Demystified - (Slide 2) © Fortline Ltd, 2003 *Why the confusion ? • They are called delegates ! – Seems like a new concept • Documentation • Often described as – Type-safe function pointers ! •

OO Design with NET

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:45:09 GMT

OO Design with .NET Annie Matthewman Chief Technologist Charteris plc *Who Are Charteris? The essential bridge between business strategy and information technology • • We offer skills that cover the full lifecycle of any development from concept through to completion Technical Consultancy including: – – – – Strategic and tactical advice Architectural design services Detailed advice on programming issues Specialists in Microsoft technology IT development resources Standards and methodologies Technical mentoring Software tools Design & code reviews (Incorporates The Mandelbrot

Options-Exchange-on-JavaSpaces

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:39:38 GMT

A High Performance Options Exchange Gateway built on JavaSpaces Wednesday 4th August 2004 I have made every effort to conceal the client in this paper, it is intentional for many reasons not least that banks do not like other banks to know what technology or companies they are using. Please accept this as a generic architectural paper. We have several large banks, exchanges and clearing houses using similar technology and this particular client is not unusual. A few weeks ago we visited an existing client of ours to talk about some new ideas for replacing a functioning options gateway with so

FABRIQ by Clemens Vasters

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:39:32 GMT

FABRIQ: Architecture for High Performance, Decentralized, Agent-Oriented, Connected Applications Arvindra Sehmi, Architect Developer & Platform Strategy Group Microsoft EMEA Clemens Vasters clemensv@newtelligence.com Microsoft Regional Director 1 *Topics  A Challenging Class Of Applications  Queuing Networks and Agents  Introducing FABRIQ     Messages Pipelines Nodes and Node Instances Networks EMEA 2 *A Challenging Class of Applications (1)  Application scalability is hard to plan for  The ultimate nightmare is a market crash  Suddenly, everyone wants to sell

Two Worlds Apart

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:38:57 GMT

Katherine Everitt Scott Klemmer Robert Lee James Landay Two Worlds Apart: Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Virtual Media for Distributed Design Collaboration 10 April 2003 ACM SIGCHI Ft. Lauderdale, FL *Supporting Information Architecture • Interviews with 11 professional designers [Newman, DIS2000] • Post-It notes on large surfaces – affinity diagrams • Brainstorming – collaborative – solo • Advantages – persistent artifact – immersive, haptic – fluid, informal interface • Difficulties – hard to edit Contextual Design, by Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtz – …t

web community small

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:38:03 GMT

FirstPartner FirstPartner Leaders in Proposition Development Welcome to Web 2.0 Welcome to the FirstPartner Web 2.0 market map focused on web communities. This map shows the range and structure of this new category of Internet companies. At the heart of next generation of Web 2.0 wave is the migration from static to user generated content (blogs, tags, video and chat), the migration away from static web pages to web applications and the formation of communities/social networking. 2006 Market Map: Guide To Web 2.0 Communities Christopher Owen cowen@firstpartner.net Morten Myhrvold mmyhrvold@fi

voip map v10 small

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:37:57 GMT

FirstPartner FirstPartner Welcome to VoIP Market Map Welcome to the 2006 Q3 VoIP Market Map. It is an overview of the global VoIP industry on one page and includes key facts and underlying trends that drive this industry. 1) Starting at the top, the map identifies four main customer segments and their key needs. 2) It presents the complete range of phones and devices that customers can choose from to adopt VoIP service. 3) The map identifies different channels through which customers buy phones and VoIP services and solutions. 4) The map distinguishes between traditional service providers like

Visualizing Open Source History nitin madnani

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:37:51 GMT

“Visualizing Open Source Histories” Nitin Madnani nmadnani@umiacs.umd.edu Introduction: The goal of this project is to apply the TimeSearcher[1] tool to temporal data obtained from open source project website, such as http://www.sourceforge.net and http://www.freshmeat.net, and determine if it is capable enough to make discoveries and visualize patterns in this data. The data has been collected for all releases in the last 5 years (2000-2005) of about 100 open source projects and consists of attributes such as : • Total Lines of Code: The number of lines in the source code in any relea

TreePlus Graph Layout Visualization

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:37:45 GMT

1 TreePlus: Interactive Exploration of Networks with Enhanced Tree Layouts Bongshin Lee, Cynthia S. Parr, Catherine Plaisant, Benjamin B. Bederson, Vladislav D. Veksler, Wayne D. Gray, and Christopher Kotfila Abstract—Despite extensive research, it is still difficult to produce effective interactive layouts for large graphs. Dense layout and occlusion make food webs, ontologies, and social networks difficult to understand and interact with. We propose a new interactive Visual Analytics component called TreePlus that is based on a tree-style layout. TreePlus reveals the missing graph structu

TIBCO CEP And SOA

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:37:30 GMT

CEP and SOA: An Open Event-Driven Architecture for Risk Management March 14, 2007 IT Financial Services 2007 Lisbon, Portugal Tim Bass, CISSP Principal Global Architect, Director Emerging Technologies Group *Our Agenda Key Takeaways, Market and Business Drivers TIBCO’S Solution Architecture Event-Driven Operational Risk Management Security Event Management and TIBCO BusinessEvents™ TIBCO’s Reference Architecture for CEP and SEM Example High Level Architecture Wrap Up 2 © 2007 TIBCO Software Inc. All Rights Reserved. Confidential and Proprietary. *Key Takeaways of Presentation Next

skype map new small

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:36:27 GMT

FirstPartner Introduction Welcome, this map has been prepared by FirstPartner following extensive research on Skype, its market environment and partners. It presents an accurate picture of the ecosystem as at the 18th September 2006. The map is structured into multiple tiers as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Customer Segments - end customers, their segmentation and needs as end-users. Propositions - what Skype means to end-customers. The Channel - the various channels and routes to market adopted by Skype. Phones: the full spectrum of devices, handsets and equipment used for making Skype

Programming without call stack EDA

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:36:19 GMT

Programming Without a Call Stack – Event-driven Architectures Gregor Hohpe www.eaipatterns.com Most computer systems are built on a command-and-control scheme: one method calls another method and instructs it to perform some action or to retrieve some required information. But often the real world works differently. A company receives a new order; a web server receives a request for a Web page, the right front wheel of my car locks up. In neither case did the system (order processing, web server, anti-lock brake control) schedule or request the action. Instead the event occurred based on ext

need4speed apama

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:32:18 GMT

The Need for Speed and Agility: Event Stream Processing for Event-Driven Business *Table of Contents Table of Contents.........................................................................................................................................................1 The Need for Speed and Agility: Event Stream Processing for Event-Driven Business .......................................2 Monitor, Analyze, and Act ...........................................................................................................................................2 A New Architectural Model...........

mvno map final small

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:32:04 GMT

FirstPartner Introduction Welcome to FirstPartner’s Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) Market Map. If, having reviewed the market map, you would like FirstPartner to brief you on the MVNO sector, we can tailor our insights to fit your market and area of particular interest. 2006 Market Map: European MVNO 3.0 Matthew Lewis mlewis@firstpartner.net Chirag Patel cpatel@firstpartner.net www.firstpartner.net t. +44 (0)870 874 8700 Customers Consumer Business Customer Segments Voice & SMS Only MVNO Business & Technical Models Propositions Cost Customer Ownership Community Reach Content & Bra

mobile marketingfinal 2007

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:31:57 GMT

FirstPartner Introduction Global Commentary UK Mobile Marketing Powered by Maptelligence Richard Warren rwarren@firstpartner.net Kurt Lyall klyall@firstpartner.net Christopher Owen cowen@firstpartner.net www.firstpartner.net | www.maptelligence.com t. +44 (0)870 874 8700 2007 Welcome to the Mobile Marketing Maptelligence report. This report provides a 360 degree view of the mobile marketing industry, covering all the essential facts, figures, players and trends for the UK. If your company is missing from this report, why not submit it via our research website www.maptelligence.com. Cus

Lab49-Finexpo2007

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:31:49 GMT

.NET 3.0: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Date: 24 January 2007 11 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10004 +1 (212) 966-3468 http://www.lab49.com - Web http://blog.lab49.com - Blog 288 Bishopsgate, Office 2:11, London EC2M 4QP +44 (20) 7959 3003 *Agenda .NET Framework 3.0 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) Composite UI Application Block (CAB) WPF Thoughts WPF Demo WPF/E WPF Tools & Resources Q&A Lab49, Inc © 2007 All Rights Reserved *Who We Are (and Why We’re Here) Services Lab49 creates advanced software applications for global f

Lab49-AlgoConf2007

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:31:28 GMT

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF): Building Algorithmic User Interfaces (UI)’s Date: 19th March 2007 11 Broadway, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10004 +1 (212) 966-3468 http://www.lab49.com - Web http://blog.lab49.com - Blog 288 Bishopsgate, Office 2:11, London EC2M 4QP +44 (20) 7959 3003 *Agenda Algorithmic User Interfaces (UI) Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Building Blocks: XAML and CAB (WPFCAB) Integration with Coral8 (Complex Event Processing) WPF Demo WPF Thoughts, Tools & Resources Q&A Lab49, Inc © 2007 All Rights Reserved *Who We Are (and Why We’re Here) Services Lab49 c

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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:31:12 GMT

Standardised Enterprise Middleware For Business and Apache Qpid (in incubation) John R O’Hara Chairperson of the AMQP Working Group VP and Distinguished Engineer, JPMorgan Robert Godfrey Contributor to Apache Qpid VP and Technical Architect, JPMorgan *Agenda What is AMQP Business rationale for creating the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol AMQP positioned in the industry and in your firm Who is behind AMQP Where can you get AMQP; is this real? AMQP Governance and Participation How might you use AMQP? Qpid Overview Page 1 *What is AMQP An Open Standard for Middleware: Middleware: software

Jabber Inc SIP RTP XMPP White Paper

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:30:56 GMT

SIP, RTP, AND XMPP IN THE EMERGING REAL-TIME INTERNET Complementary Technologies for Next-Generation Solutions INTRODUCTION Since large-scale commercialization of the Internet began in the early 1990s, its dominant applications have been the World Wide Web and email. Although they have been augmented by some dynamic additions, the Web and email are essentially static, pull, or asychronous technologies: a user requests a Web page or his or her mail, a Web or mail server provides the relevant file or files, and a browser or email client presents the results to the user. By contrast, the emerging

How EDA extends SOA and why it is important - Jack van Hoof - v6 0 - 2006

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:30:46 GMT

1 V6.0 –December 2006 - This PDF may be distributed freely with reference to the author’s weblog and without any modifications Author: Jack van Hoof The author has extensive practical experience and knowledge on all aspects and roles of application development since 1977. He is currently is employed as Enterprise Integration Architect at Dutch Railways where he advises on modern technologies, standards and patterns to increase IT-maturity with regard to business applications and application infrastructures. Topics are SOA, EDA, ESB and Portal. Weblog: http://soa-eda.blogspot.com E-mail: j

Event Driven Rules Sensing Business Situations

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:30:40 GMT

Event-Driven Rules for Sensing and Responding to Business Situations Josef Schiefer Institute for Software Technology and Interactive Systems Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188 1040 Vienna, Austria Szabolcs Rozsnyai, Christian Rauscher Secure Business Austria Favoritenstraße 16 1040 Vienna, Austria Gerd Saurer Senactive IT Dienstleistungs GmbH Phorusgasse 8 1040, Vienna, Austria gsaurer@senactive.com js@ifs.tuwien.ac.at rozsnyai@securityresearch.at, rauscher@securityresearch.at critical in several areas, such as finance, fraud detection, business intelligence or business process management. Infor

Event Driven Application Servers

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:30:30 GMT

Event-Driven Application Servers Alexandre Vasseur Thomas Bernhardt Project Lead and Founder, Esper TS-1911 2007 JavaOneSM Conference | Session TS-1911 | *Event-Driven Application Servers Middleware for event processing Learn the concepts of Event Stream and Complex Event Processing (ESP/CEP). Understand the role and rationale for Event-Driven Application Servers. 2007 JavaOneSM Conference | Session TS-1911 | 2 *Agenda On Events and Event Processing Esper Demo 1 Event-Driven Application Server Demo 2 Summary and Q&A 2007 JavaOneSM Conference | Session TS-1911 | 3 *Agenda On Events and

Coral8 Design Patterns

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:30:16 GMT

Complex Event Processing: Ten Design Patterns i *Copyright © 2006 Coral8, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Worldwide Headquarters: Coral8, Inc. 82 Pioneer Way, Suite 106 Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: 650-210-3810 Fax: 650-210-3811 Visit us on the web at www.coral8.com or e-mail us at info@coral8.com i *Table of Contents INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................ III 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 FILTERING.................................................................................................

continuousDesign

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:30:08 GMT

design Editor: Martin Fowler ■ T h o u g h t Wo r k s ■ fowler@acm.org Continuous Design Jim Shore he rising popularity of refactoring, tools such as JUnit, and agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) has brought a new style of design into view. Continuous design is the process of using refactoring to continuously improve a program’s design. Initially a skeptic, I’ve been experimenting with continuous design for four years, and it’s changed the way I program. T The role of continuous design Continuous design is also known as evolutionary or emergent design. I prefe

Caching Grid In A Nutshell

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:30:04 GMT

Caching and Grid in a Nutshell An overview of caching and grid products with case studies by John Davies *Agenda • Introduction • The needs of the banking world (some examples) • Grid vs. Caching – When is a cache not a cache? • Gemstone, GigaSpaces and Tangosol – A data caching example in each – The Master-Worker pattern • Getting data onto and off the grid • Handling complex data • Q&A *The Speaker (John Davies) • 25 years in IT; Hardware, Assembler (Z80), C, C++ and then Java – mostly on UNIX and Linux – Also played with Occam, Objective C, Ruby & Perl • Co

C5 Generic Collection Library

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:29:40 GMT

The C5 Generic Collection Library for C# and CLI Version 1.0.1 of 2006-06-26 Niels Kokholm Peter Sestoft IT University Technical Report Series ISSN 1600–6100 TR-2006-76 January 2006 *Copyright c 2006 Niels Kokholm Peter Sestoft IT University of Copenhagen All rights reserved. Reproduction of all or part of this work is permitted for educational or research use on condition that this copyright notice is included in any copy. ISSN 1600–6100 ISBN 87-7949-114-6 Copies may be obtained by contacting: IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaardsvej 7 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark Telephone:

Apache MINA

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:29:05 GMT

Building High Performance Scalable TCP/IP Servers with Apache MINA Originally presented at ApacheCon Europe 2006 in Dublin Latest slides and code samples at http://people.apache.org/~proyal Presented by Peter Royal, 1 *Goals of this presentation •Introduction to MINA •Demonstration of what it can do •Converting blocking-IO code to MINA •Hopefully inspire you to use it :) 2 *What is MINA •Multipurpose Infrastructure for Networked Applications •A framework (the F word!) for building networked clients and servers based on non-blocking IO •http://directory.apa

An AbstractSemanticsandConcreteLanguageforContinuousStreams

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:25:54 GMT

An Abstract Semantics and Concrete Language for Continuous Queries over Streams and Relations Arvind Arasu Shivnath Babu Jennifer Widom Stanford University {arvinda,shivnath,widom}@cs.stanford.edu Abstract Despite the recent surge of research in query processing over data streams, little attention has been devoted to defining precise semantics for continuous queries over streams. We first present an abstract semantics based on several building blocks: formal definitions for streams and relations, mappings among them, and any relational query language. From these basics we define a precis

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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:25:51 GMT

The 8 Requirements of Real-Time Stream Processing Michael Stonebraker Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, M.I.T., and StreamBase Systems, Inc. Uğur Çetintemel Department of Computer Science, Brown University, and StreamBase Systems, Inc. Stan Zdonik Department of Computer Science, Brown University, and StreamBase Systems, Inc. stonebraker@csail.mit.edu ugur@cs.brown.edu sbz@cs.brown.edu ABSTRACT Applications that require real-time processing of high-volume data steams are pushing the limits of traditional data processing infrastructures. These stream-based applicat

widget map

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:25:37 GMT

FirstPartner Introduction Welcome to the FirstPartner Gadget & Widget Universe Market Map. A Widget/Gadget is an embeddable slice of outside information that update automatically (displaying anything from a picture slideshow to current weather conditions) 2007 Market Map: Gadget & Widget Universe Christopher Owen cowen@firstpartner.net www.firstpartner.net t. +44 (0)870 874 8700 v1.0 May 2007 www.firstpartner.net t. +44 (0) 870 874 8700 f. +44 (0) 870 874 9888 e. hello@firstpartner.net Audience Business Customers 1) Presence on your worker’s desktop 2) Provides alerts and warnings 3) Al

regular expressions cheat sheet

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:07:42 GMT

Anchors ^ \A $ \Z \b \B \< \> Start of string Start of string End of string End of string Word boundary Not word boundary Start of word End of word Quantifiers * + ? {3} {3,} {3,5} 0 or more 1 or more 0 or 1 Exactly 3 3 or more 3, 4 or 5 Groups and Ranges . (a|b) (...) (?:...) [abc] [^abc] [a-q] [A-Q] [0-7] \n Any character except new line (\n) a or b Group Passive Group Range (a or b or c) Not a or b or c Letter between a and q Upper case letter between A and Q Digit between 0 and 7 nth group/subpattern Note: Ranges are inclusive. Pattern Modifiers g Global match Case-insensitive Multiple l

NET Dispose Pattern

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:07:28 GMT

Various Thoughts on the .NET Dispose Pattern by Brent Rector Microsoft publishes a design pattern called Dispose, named for the only method in the IDisposable interface. This pattern changes a little and simplifies a lot under the Whidbey version of .NET. I'd like to examine this pattern in some depth and argue for and against its various uses. IDisposable The IDisposable interface looks like this: interface IDisposable { void Dispose (); } Many developers aren't totally clear on the semantics of this interface. The prevalent interpretation of IDisposable is that it allows, but does not requi

interaction pattern wf

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:07:19 GMT

Pattern Library Workflow Matt Leacock 7 December 2004 Platform Design UED Design Reviewers Design Researchers Int’l UEDs UED VP Librarian Author Author Author UED Author Rating Council UED Author Identify Pattern Platform design group will identify an initial list of high priority patterns and will publish it in a master list. UEDs may identify and submit ideas and requests for new patterns. Design reviewers identify patterns that correspond to problems or solutions revealed in research. Design researchers may identify and extend patterns as a result of user research. International UEs may

Composite+UI+Block+Presentation

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:05:11 GMT

An Overview – Lab49, David B., Andre dC. The Problem    Advanced User Interfaces are difficult to make and reuse. Lots of dependent parts that should not be dependent. Plug-ins often must know of each other. What Is CAB?     A Microsoft Enterprise Application Block Simplifies the creation of complex user interfaces and modular applications using a composition pattern. Declarative event brokering and dependency injection A framework to create flexible and reusable UI components CAB Terminology     Smart Part – A cont

Challenging Logic and Reasoning Problems

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:04:54 GMT

Team-LRN *501 CHALLENGING LOGIC AND REASONING PROBLEMS Team-LRN *Team-LRN *501 CHALLENGING LOGIC AND REASONING PROBLEMS 2nd Edition ® NEW YORK Team-LRN *Copyright © 2005 LearningExpress, LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 501 challenging logic & reasoning problems. p. cm.—(LearningExpress skill builders practice) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-57685-534-1 1. Logic—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Reasonin

Wireless Networking Developing World

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:03:51 GMT

Wireless Networking in the Developing World A practical guide to planning and building low-cost telecommunications infrastructure *Wireless Networking in the Developing World For more information about this project, visit us online at http://wndw.net/ First edition, January 2006 Many designations used by manufacturers and vendors to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and the authors were aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in all caps or initial caps. All other trademarks are property of their respec

Islamo-Christian Civilization

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:48:08 GMT

the case for Islamo-Christian Civilization **the case for Islamo-Christian Civilization Richard W. Bulliet COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK *COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS Publishers Since 1893 New York, Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2004 Columbia University Press All rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bulliet, Richard W. The case for Islamo-Christian civilization / Richard W. Bulliet. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–231–12796–0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Civilization, Islamic. 2. Civilization, Christian. 3. Islam—21st

The Muslim World After 911

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:47:50 GMT

*The Muslim World ANGEL M. RABASA | CHERYL BENARD | PETER CHALK C. CHRISTINE FAIR | THEODORE KARASIK ROLLIE LAL | IAN LESSER | DAVID THALER Prepared for the United States Air Force Approved for public release; distribution unlimited *The research reported here was sponsored by the United States Air Force under Contract F49642-01-C-0003. Further information may be obtained from the Strategic Planning Division, Directorate of Plans, Hq USAF. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Muslim world after 9/11 / Angel M. Rabasa ... [et al.]. p. cm. “MG-246.” Includes bibliograph

Shahid Masood Jang Lal Masjid

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:31:58 GMT

Jang Group Online http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/jul2007-daily/13-07-2007/col3.htm Friday, 13 July, 2007, Jamadi-us-Sani 27, 1428 A.H Home Jang The News Tariff Feedback VF Blog Archive Contact Us Weekly Editions Select One .. -Select City- 1 of 3 7/15/2007 10:29 AM *Jang Group Online http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/jul2007-daily/13-07-2007/col3.htm 2 of 3 7/15/2007 10:29 AM *Jang Group Online http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/jul2007-daily/13-07-2007/col3.htm Jang Group of Newspapers © All rights reserved. Reproduction or misrepresentation of material available on this web site in an