It is a last minute announcement but consider making it to the first OW2 Annual Conference in Paris over the next two days: Open Source for the Computing Infrastructure MAKE A DATE TO ATTEND THE FIRST OW2 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Two days at no cost to you to discover the enterprise software that will set you free and boost your efficiency: come and take part in the first OW2 Annual Conference, April 1-2, in Paris, held during the Solutions Linux trade show. Optimize your time: attending the first OW2 Annual Conference will also offer you the opportunity to visit the Solution Linux trade show, discover the latest developments in the OW2’s leading projects and get to talk with the developers themselves

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OW2 Annual Conference, April 1-2, 2009.

This week, request-log-analyzer obtained its 100th watcher on GitHub ! Bart and I have worked hard to make r-l-a a useful product for many people in various situations. The fact that more than 100 people are following the project’s progress and that at this moment, the gem has been download almost 200 times , shows that we are somewhat successful in this regard. Numbers like these, in combination with the e-mail messages we have received, motivate us to keep spending time on the project and keep improving it, even if these improvements are not directly useful for our own projects.

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Counter feedback

Back at the beginning of the company, we here at Phurnace made some pretty basic decisions that have shaped and defined what it is we do and how we go about doing it. At heart, Phurnace’s products get our customers out of the business of being middleware experts (WebSphere, WebLogic, Jboss, WebSphere Portal, Tomcat, etc.) and let’s them focus on THEIR apps, not the apps running their apps

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Everything I Ever Needed to Know (About Integration) I Learned in Kindergarten

Brent Simmons makes some great points in his essay on the role of zealots in the software industry. I especially relate to his observation that zeal, or the mere impression of it, can repel somebody from what might otherwise be an attractive technology. In particular, Brent confesses that before he could even try the popular git source control management tool, he had to overcome his resistance to joining rank with some of the cult-like followers of Linus Torvalds , the famous developer of git who also created the world-changing Linux operating system

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Zealotry For Good And Evil

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A letter to customers using Rogue Wave ® Stingray ® products Patrick Leonard, VP Product Strategy & Marketing As part of our ongoing commitment to the Stingray product, Rogue Wave Software is adding significant new functionality in 2009 and beyond. Recently, Microsoft has made significant enhancements to the MFC libraries with the release of the MFC Feature Pack, and much of our effort will be addition of support for the MFC Feature Pack.  In addition, we are adding new support for other MFC components as well as features of Windows, Office and .NET.

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Coming Stingray enhancements – 2009 product roadmap

I recently participated in a webinar with Ken Rubin from HP (formerly EDS) who is the Chief Architect for their Healthcare practice.  The webinar was sponsored by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) .  You can access it on demand by registering here . The topic was about the need to standardize, and the benefits of standardizing, software services.  There are many IT standards in healthcare and other industries around document structures, data payloads and information sematics.  Yet, there has been marginal progress on standardizing the functional behaviors or architectures which are needed to create, manage and manipulate that data

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Standardizing Software Services

Seems that there’s a lot of talk in the blogsphere and around the water cooler now a days about application virtualization being the next step in the abstraction revolution taking over the data center. Whether to current infrastructure, virtual images, or now out to the cloud, companies are really starting to wrap their heads around the important differences between the data center centric perspective of days past and the application centric view point inching into strategic conversations.

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Application Virtualization – Third Verse, Same as the First

Sometimes, people wish to export their WordPress or WordPress.com blogs to other blogging software, for reasons they think are important. But there is no such…

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WordPress Freedom – Set free your WordPress blog!

Every so often, someone writes to me or to the public-qa-dev mailing list to report bugs, or simply to give thanks on the semantic data extractor . I’m always pleasantly surprised when I hear that, what started as a 10 minutes demonstrator of the semantics attached to HTML, is actually used as a tool by a number of developers. With a name such “semantic data extractor”, it was a bit of a shame that the tool didn’t highlight the usage of GRDDL or RDFa on pages that use either of these technologies; I have just added detection of both of these to the extractor.

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Semantic Data Extractor