Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator selected to deliver Cartika an enterprise grade cloud computing solution Toronto, Canada and London, UK - 28 November 2012 - Cartika IT Solutions Inc., a leader in application hosting and advanced clustering technologies, has selected Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator V3 over OnApp V3, CloudStack, OpenStack, and in-house development for its on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services. Both from an internal company requirement and to meet its customers' expectations of a more automated and flexible solution, Cartika recognised the need to offer a more complete infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution. Cartika's legacy system was home-grown, aging and lacking the features required to effectively deliver cloud services to its customers in an automated, profitable way. Andrew Rouchotas, CEO, Cartika said, "The cloud utility model ... (more)

Dean Krafft on the Linked Data for Libraries project

Dean Krafft, Chief Technology Strategist for Cornell University Library, is at Harvard to talk about the Mellon-funded Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project he leads. The grantees include Cornell, Stanford, and the Harvard Library Innovation Lab (which is co-sponsoring the talk with ABCD). (I provide nominal leadership for the Harvard team working on this.) 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 warned, people. Dean will talk about the LD4L project by talking about its building blocks. [Dean had lots of information and a lot on the slides. I did a particularly bad job of capturing it.] Ld4L Mellon last December put up $1M for a 2-year project that will en... (more)

ABBYY annonce la disponibilité mondiale d’ABBYY PDF Transformer+

La nouvelle solution de conversion, de création et de modification de PDF propose des fonctions intuitives qui simplifient les tâches à effectuer sur les contenus des PDF Munich , Allemagne (12 mai 2014) - ABBYY, un fournisseur leader de solutions de reconnaissance de documents, de capture de données et de technologies et de services linguistiques, annonce aujourd'hui la disponibilité mondiale d'ABBYY PDF Transformer+, la nouvelle génération de son logiciel pour simplifier le travail des professionnels sur le contenu des documents au format PDF. Celui-ci propose une gamme complète de fonctionnalités intuitives pour regarder, éditer et commenter les PDF pour optimiser la collaboration sur ce type de documents. De cette façon, les professionnels peuvent commencer à travailler avec le contenu des PDF sans grand effort. « ABBYY PDF Transformer+ peut transformer réelleme... (more)

How to Improve Business Communication with Behavior Driven Development

This is a guest blog post by Lance Ennen, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Big Astronaut. Lance is driving Big Astronaut’s core technology values and development around virtual software development, running virtual teams, and delivering the ‘wow factor’ to his products and clients. As a former Obtiva consultant and entrepreneur, and eternal Ruby on Rails devotee, Lance has designed and built web and mobile applications for everything from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The original article can be found here. Get in touch with Lance on twitter! Effective business communication heightens productivity. An important step in increasing communication and decreasing inefficiencies is to eliminate assumptions. A teacher of mine once told the class to never ASSUME. When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me. Every entity, which has a hierarchy of employe... (more)

Word Saved from Ban

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rescued Microsoft Word from being clamped in injunctive leg irons, barred from sale on the US market. On Thursday the court gave Microsoft the stay it was looking for while it appeals the decision of a Texas district court that it infringed on an obscure custom XML patent held by a little Canadian company called i4i. Nobody ever heard of i4i until a few weeks ago when Microsoft was told to pay it $290 million in damages for treading on its IP and to take Word and the Word-bearing Office suite off the American market until Word stops offending. The injunction was supposed to go into effect next month. Microsoft maintains that the patent is bunk and that there’s prior art. It also claims that it would take months to fix the problem. The appeals court will now hear Microsoft’s expedited appeal on September 23. It’s unc... (more)

Windows Azure PHP Development Kit

Microsoft announced at TechEd India — a show running simultaneously with TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, a new software development kit for people interested in building apps in PHP for Windows Azure cloud. The PHP SDK for Windows Azure, a.k.a. PHPAzure, is an open source project, available for download from Microsoft CodePlex. The SDK provides consistent programming model for Windows Azure Storage (Blobs, Tables, Queues). Program Manager, Peter Galli, said Microsoft also is announcing “the launch of a series of projects that offer samples and a toolkit that enable PHP developers to include Silverlight controls, Microsoft Virtual Earth maps and IE Webslices and Accelerators in PHP web applications; as well as automatically generated a simple Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) PHP application from a table in SQL Server.” A Technology Preview of the PHP SDK for Windows Az... (more)

Newsletter: GoGrid Customer Update – October 2009

The GoGrid newsletter went out today. Unfortunately, if you are not already a GoGrid customer, you didn’t receive it…until now! There are a lot of exciting items covered here (a few of which you already know if you subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed including the Edit, Delete and Restore function of MyGSIs). If you aren’t already a GoGrid user, I recommend that you sign up (and here is a quick hint, if you want a $100 GoGrid credit on new account, contact a GoGrid Sales Rep and they can consult with you on your best options for the Cloud). Below is the entire GoGrid Newsletter (October 2009): Hello Michael, In this edition of the GoGrid newsletter I cover recent feature releases, planned features for the next release, and the end-of-life (EoL) of Server Images with preinstalled applications.  Here are the specific topics: MyGSI Enhancements: Edit, Delete, and Restor... (more)

ADF UI Shell: Supporting global hotkeys for the activity tabs

We recently had the requirement to provide our users global hotkeys to switch between tabs within the ADF UI Shell (a.k.a. Dynamic Tab Shell) in JDev 11g. Luckily I caught a presentation at Open World this year where Frank Nimphius showed off support for creating global hotkeys in ADF applications. Frank was kind enough to give me his source code allowing me to modify it to suit the ADF UI Shell specifically. The following code shows the general technique for getting global hotkeys workings, as well as specific code to suit the ADF UI Shell implementation. The following code was built and tested under JDev 11.1.1.2.0. ADF UI Shell Extension – global hotkeys Readers familiar with the current incarnation of the ADF UI Shell will know it has the ability to spawn 1 to 15 "activity" tabs displaying whatever the programmer chooses. This provides an ideal framework for users... (more)

Cloud Expo, Inc. Announces Cloud Expo 2011 New York Venue

Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York ! Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. Cloud Expo - International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong. Over 900 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, tenfold more than all other Cloud-related events put together. Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York ! "Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, Chairman and Founder of Cloud Expo, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘soft... (more)

PathPartner Technology will showcase its TIZEN based platform at 8th GENIVI All Member Meeting Conference

PathPartner which is an alliance member at GENIVI will showcase its innovations for GENIVI ecosystem at the conference being held on April 23-26, 2013 at Barcelona, Spain PathPartner Technology a leading provider of embedded multimedia software services and solutions announced that it will be participating in the All Member Conference of GENIVI which is a non-profit industry association whose mission is to drive the broad adoption of an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) open source development platform. PathPartner will showcase its GENIVI 3.0 compliant Tizen-based IVI Platform at the conference which is built on extensively used open source components and frameworks with wide industry support. Tizen - an operating system that is primarily Linux-based, gives consumers a feature-rich platform. It also provides the customer with multiple options for UI front-ends includin... (more)

Cloud Expo 2011 East To Attract 10,000 Delegates and 200 Exhibitors

SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 600 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Computing Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together. Cloud Computing Expo 2011 East Call for Papers Deadline November 30, 2010 - SUBMIT YOUR SPEAKING PROPOSAL TODAY! The four-day event will offer a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technical value of cloud computing with more than 150 sponsors and exhibitors and over 5,000 estimated delegates from well over 48 different countries. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship &... (more)