Steven Hatch’s Blog

links for 2006-03-27

ESB vs SOA

Mark Colan: “While some people say that ESB is a requirement for SOA, I disagree: you use an ESB when you reach a certain point in maturity, when you find that manually maintaining links between applications and the services they use costs too much…”

(tags: SOA ESB services Enterprise IT webservices)
ESB Myth Busters: 10 Enterprise Service Bus Myths Debunked

the most popular questions and misconceptions” about Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

(tags: ESB SOA IT Enterprise)

Price guides for building your own PC – Lifehacker

“The guides cover building your own budget, entry-level, mid-range, and (for the independently wealthy or hardcore enthusiast) high-end systems.”

(tags: Hardware shopping HOWTO DIY)

A quarter of all adult internet users will listen to a “Podcast” in the next 6 months

“The findings suggest that up to 7.9 million adults could be downloading podcasts in the next 6 months, which represents a massive opportunity for advertisers and media owners alike,”

(tags: podcasting Business Advertising me)
TechCrunch » Sky-Click: your web call-center with Skype

“Sky-Click is a 100% web-based solution to set up your call center, built on Skype API and very easy to implement and use.”

(tags: CRM Skype Business Phone SIP VOIP)

www.ajaxwrite.com

“The look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform.”

(tags: web2.0 AJAX Microsoft Editors JavaScript web20)
Understanding Google – JupiterResearch

“Google is the single most important company online in terms of its ability to affect wide swathes of consumer behavior and online media and marketing, and to drive new technology adoption.”

(tags: Google Search reference Business Research)
XML Developer Center: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML

“The objective of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) is to define the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosely-cooperating apps”

(tags: microsoft rss xml sse opml syndication sharing Data development extension Collaboration web2.0 web20 webdev)

Live Clipboard Technical Introduction

“The Live Clipboard web control is a DHTML control that provides copy/paste functionality for data associated with a web page using the Live Clipboard XML data format.”

(tags: JavaScript Hacks Collaboration Microsoft Firefox browser)
Javeline.org – Javeline Developer Center

Build Rich Internet Applications using AJAX with the Javeline Framework.

(tags: webdev Dev AJAX JavaScript PHP)
Photos and Family Trees by Amiglia

“Family Tree + Photo Album”

(tags: Photography Family tagging Folksonomy)

KnoppMyth R5B7 is here!

“distribution now includes MythTV 0.19.fixes and lots of under-the-hood improvements since R5A30.2″.

(tags: MythTV Knoppix Linux PVR htpc tv)
Be smarter at work, slack off – Mar. 17, 2006

“Companies need to respect the time it takes to do strategic thinking,” he says. “Task-oriented thinking is important too, of course. But bigger thinking is slow.”

(tags: Business News Work Employment)

Stevey’s Blog Rants: Math For Programmers

I’ve been saying the same thing for years! “They teach math all wrong in school. Way, WAY wrong. If you teach yourself math the right way, you’ll learn faster, remember it longer, and it’ll be much more valuable to you as a programmer.”

(tags: programming Math Dev development Science education)
The one and only “Memory usage” thread & FQA – MozillaZine Forums

“Firefox memory usage has been quite a hot topic since the release of Firefox 1.5. This thread is designed to provide you with tips on how to minimise the amount of memory Firefox uses, information on what is known to cause memory leaks in Firefox, what i

(tags: Firefox browser performance Hacks opensource reference)
O.F.C.S.: The Online Film Critics Society

The writers of the Online Film Critics Society recalls the half- and completely-forgotten treasures of the past decade cinematic canon with its list of the Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s.”

(tags: Movies film cinema recommendations Entertainment)

Grazr, you know for feeds…

“Grazr is a Javascript-based OPML browser that can be included dynamically in web pages.”

(tags: OPML RSS web2.0 JavaScript AJAX)
Socializer – free automatic social bookmark submission

“The Socializer allows you to easily submit a link to several social bookmarking systems. Instead of having a link to each social bookmarking website, you have a single link to all of them!”

(tags: tagging tags Folksonomy socialsoftware bookmarks Service)

UNIX History

“This is a simplified diagram of unix history. There are numerous derivative systems not listed in this chart, maybe 10 times more!”

(tags: unix history linux map Retro tech Visualization geek)
Google Reader API

“Google built its feed API first and the Google Reader application second as a demonstration of what could be done with the underlying data.”

(tags: Google API Atom RSS webservices webdev web2.0 documentation Dev Blogs)

Find Similar Sites: similicio.us

“This is a mashup of del.icio.us and easyutil.com. It’s an experiment on my part to see whether I can quickly find relevant web sites based on people’s tags/bookmarks on del.icio.us, using the engine from easyutil.com.”

(tags: Search delicious del.icio.us mashup API web20 web2.0)
Ipodmame – wikiPodLinux

“This is a Port of MAME (http://www.mame.net) v0.18 to the iPod.”

(tags: iPod Linux Games MAME Emulation Entertainment)

Minti – Powered by Parents – parent to parent advice-opedia

“Advice. For Parents. By Parents. Minti is your place to publish your seasoned parenting advice. Contribute to the only dedicated “advice-opedia” for parents on the web. Share, rank, comment, and search.”

(tags: Parenting community tagging Folksonomy)