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Link to view recorded version of the meetup on Vimeo Speaker: Tyler Keating – was working as a contractor at Strobe, which got bought by Facebook. He inherited the framework and is currently the Administer of SproutCore. Tyler holds the keys to all the SproutCore assets. Today, Tyler h...
On 28 August 2012 Carahsoft will sponsor a webinar on Apache Hadoop use cases in the federal government. I’ll be providing introductory context on several categories of use cases and extracting some broad lessons from those use cases. This scene setter on Big Data use cases will ...
OpenTag Tag Management Solution continues to open up cross platform integration with new additions 21st August 2012: QuBit OpenTag (http://www.opentag.qubitproducts.com/) today announced the launch of a Wordpress plugin and a Magento extension for Universal Variable. The two additions...
Over the last few months I have been recovering from a bilateral tendon tear that has kept me from doing just about everything I love to do. Today I was told my orthopedist that I am going to have to repeat the surgery and start from square one. Another surgery, another extended hospit...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Navy is establishing Unmanned Helicopter Reconnaissance Squadron One (HUQ-1) effective October 1, 2012. More here. The Office of Management and Budget released an updated report stating that 318 data cente...
I’ll be participating in writing a new book on the enterprise development with HTML5. At this point we have created only the first cut of mind map that includes a TOC with very brief description of the chapters. This is a work in progress and every bit of it may change. But the m...
New Verified Partners Expand CloudBees Platform Services Providing Developers With Greater Choice and FlexibilityLondon UK - August 14, 2012 - CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, announced the expansion of the CloudBees Partner Ecosystem by introdu...
This is the second in a two-part series of articles discussing the O’Reilly conference, Velocity 2012. Please check out the first article in the series, available here: Part One O’Reilly’s Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference, Velocity 2012, wrapped up a...
Government Hackers – Party in the NSA By: Tristan Jones Last week in Las Vegas, the hacker convention Defcon 20...Read More
Rappel : Première partie : situation actuelle, en 2012, du marché informatique pour les postes de travail Deuxième partie : les guerres sur les marchés des processeurs et des familles d’outils d’accès. J’utilise un modèle d’analyse à 5 niveaux. Dans...
When Hewlett-Packard finally releases Open webOS, the open-source version of the mobile operating system originally developed by Palm, it won’t support the devices on which its predecessor was designed to run. The Open webOS project announced Tuesday evening that the fledgling OS won’t...
Here is the latest news and developments that I could find this week related to HTML5.  It seems everyone I speak to agrees these days that HTML5 hybrid apps will conquer enterprise mobility over the next 24 months.  That does not mean that native apps go away, just that t...
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full July edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Quick Start Program f...
A series of 5-min lightning talks. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. You are w...
BODY: I’m at the “Symposium on Digital Curation in the Era of Big Data” held by the Board on Research Data and Information of the National Research Council. These liveblog notes cover (in some sense — I missed some folks, and have done my usual spotty job on the rest) the morning sessi...
In July we went launched a new WordPress website for Michigan State University.  The website was designed for one of MSU’s long-term research projects, the Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Site, which is part of the LTER Network established by the Nationa...
  We’ve never been before, but we’ve heard great things about O’Reilly’s open source conf in Portland, OR. Here are a few reasons why we’re excited to be going (and why you should be, too): 1. Some great sessions from some superstar AppDynamics employees: The Secret Diaries of a P...
Two new Kickstarter records have been set by a project whose popularity has exploded since it was added to the site. The Ouya video game console became the fastest project to raise a million bucks and raised the most money ever raised on Kickstarter in one day.  The low-cost, Android-b...
loadUI is our free, Open Source tool that takes load testing to a new level. With a beautiful, intuitive drag-and-drop interface it allows you to create, configure, and redistribute your load tests...
Tim Brown of Ideo is opening his Aspen Ideas Festival talk with a slide presentation called “From Newton to Design”. He says he’s early in thinking it through. He points to a problem in how we’ve thought about design, trained designers, and have practiced design. The great thing about ...
Boca Raton, FL, June 29, 2012 --(PR.com)-- A study of 184,000 visits to Long-Term Care Insurance shopping site LTC Tree found that one’s choice of computing platform may reveal more than just hotel buying habits. Macintosh users are 14.1% more likely to buy Long-Term Care covera...
Recorded Futureis the first temporal analytics engine enabling web intelligence, pulling open source information from the Internet and indexing it for analysis by event type and time, thereby allowing users to tap into the predictive power of the web. Recorded Future has proven capabil...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to have its Next-Generation Identification system, which will include nationwide iris scan and facial imaging databases,  ready for testing by 2014. More here. A milit...
Among other NoSQL databases there is a particularly nice one called REDIS. It’s an open source and advanced key-value store database. What is meant by ‘advanced’ here? Redis keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets on which you can run atomic operations. It also wo...
The latest update to open-source R, R 2.15.1, was released this morning. (You can grab sources now, and binary versions will hit the CRAN mirrors over the next couple of days.) In addition to several new features and bug fixes (including the new globalVariables function, which will be ...
This is the second article in our series of “how to” articles. “How to create an intranet” is a common search, and therefore a common business query, but before we go any further, it makes sense to first deal with the question “What is an intranet?” What is an intranet? No matter how m...
Strategy for Cardholder Data Discovery
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In a poster (PDF) presented at the UseR 2012 conference, FDA biostatistician Jae Brodsky reiterated the FDA policy regarding software used to prepare submissions for drug approvals with clinical trials: Sponsors may use R in their submissions. The FDA does not endorse or require any pa...
A quick heads-up that I'll be hosting a live webinar this Wednesday (June 20) with my colleage Sue Ranney on the new Revolution R Enterprise 6. If you've never taken a look at Revolution R Enterprise and want to know it's different from open-source R, or just want to learn about the ne...
I love Amsterdam so much. I know the residents have their complaints — including that tourists love it too much — but it is such a physically beautiful city, and so full of life. So, I’m very happy to have 2 days here between jobs. Over the past 1.5 days, I have done nothing but [...]...
The advent of Cloud Service Brokers isn’t just about re-inventing the supply chain of IT services, although that of course is significant, but also because of the evolution in EA (Enterprise Architecture) design that it’s driving and the benefits this brings. Principally th...
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full June edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Revolution R Enterpri...
Another keystone foundation for secure GovCloud computing is Identity, which will also play a fundamental role in transforming the nature of eGovernment process itself. As the title suggests this distinction could be to iGovernment, to denote ‘Identity-enabled workflow’ sys...
In case you missed them, here are some articles from May of particular interest to R users. R tops the annual KDNuggets Data Mining Software poll for the first time. R 2.15.1 is scheduled for June 22. (Revolution R Enterprise 6, released on June 5, is based on 2.14.2.) A tutorial uses ...
R, Hadoop and SQL are the focus of the cover story in the May 2012 issue of ComputerWorld Canada: Brian Bloom's article The Open-Source Answer to Big Data (also published in PCWorld) looks at the impact of open-source on enterprise IT architectures: Cost, flexibility and the availabili...
Former JBoss Executive to Drive Growth and Momentum in EuropeWOBURN, MA and CLOUD COMPUTING WORLD FORUM, LONDON, UK - June 12, 2012 - CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced that Michel Goossens, former vice president EMEA for Red Hat (...