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Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA)
WOA is an emergent phenomenon across Start-ups and the Enterprise. Top level history of development: Structured Object Oriented Service Oriented – turn applications into open platforms SOAP, WSDL etc Web Oriented – address the failings in service oriented inability to deal with legal, technical, security and other business issues. REST SOAP is stable or shrinking,…
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The Web Platform
Presented by two of my favorite speakers Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith and they were as good as ever. i lost my notes, but this is what i remembered without seeing the slides again. Mozilla concept series – future of the browser, the sci-fiction. But what is really happening to the browser. Started with Netscape…
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The Science of Computing and the Engineering of Software
Is computing science? is software engineering? the answers Tony Hoare argues must be the same! In the extremes: Scientist Scientist interested in the long term and scientific truth which has no finite lifetime. Idealism, general theories and certainty (theory supported by multiple items of evidence) separate of work into individual elements which can be formulized…
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Edit your host file OSX
1. Open up your terminal application 2. Type in “sudo pico /etc/hosts” 3. Type in your administration password 4. Use your arrow keys to maneuver the cursor and type in whatever entries you are wanting to put in your hosts file 5. Once you are done, hit Control-o 6. and then hit Control-x
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GIT – Version Control
I am currently looking into GIT, I have previously used CVS and our current repository of choice is Subversion. view a Comparison against Subversion. Git is… Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged…
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Deploy Java EE to Amazon EC2
Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java EE applications on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). There are three main parts to Cloud Tools Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that are configured to run Tomcat and work with EC2Deploy. EC2Deploy – the core framework. This framework manages EC2 instances, configures MySQL,…
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Qu-s desktop notes
Qu-s is a simple desktop organistation tool which allows you to keeps what you need at your finger tips but out of your way! It has some great features usually reserved for word processing applications which allow you to bring better bring organization to your ideas and your notes. Features include: bullet, check boxes and…
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World of Goo – Game review
This has to be my favourite game on the the Wii and i got it from WiiWare. It’s produced by a small team and is proof that you do not need millions to create a compelling game. There are more than four worlds, each housing unique stages and varying objectives around using the strengths and…
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iLife 09, IPhoto Review
I have had iLife 09 for 5 days. I’ve been using IPhoto and the new features are well integrated and the faces technology is very impressive. I started testing by uploading to flickr, facebook and the mobileme gallery, all worked first time and the process was (as you would expect) very simple. I had downloaded…
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How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk
The following has been copied form an article that can be found at ‘How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk‘ Turn off Time Machine with the big switch in the Time Machine System Preferences panel. Eject the old Time Machine disk, unplug it, and re-insert it to force it to…