Whew, it has been a while since I wrote my last blog.  New initiatives for the new year have been keeping me fully consumed.  However, one of these new initiatives has reached a point where it was time to get it written up on my blog. The cost of Medicaid and Medicare has been written about often as government budgets are re-evaluated and the new administration takes root.  With econonmic times being what they are the number of beneficiaries are increasing in an already overburdened system of service to US state and local communities.

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Applying SOA to improve US Medicaid and Medicare

I’m happy to announce the 10.1.3.4.1 release of BI Publisher. This release rolls up bug fixes and enhancements since 10.1.3.4.0 to include the following: Support for Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 Extended Support for Single Sign-On Providers Automatic Refresh of LDAP Cache Support for Siebel CRM Security Support for Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) for Burst Reports Data Model Enhancements Web Service Data Set Type Enhancement: Specify Path to Data in SOAP Response SQL Query Data Set New Property: Use Default Schema Only Support for JNDI for Scheduler Connections Support for Expressions to Calculate Date Parameters RTF Template Enhancements Get List of BI Publisher Configuration Settings Enable Debug Mode for an RTF Template Number to Word Conversion in Report Output Remove Logos and Links from the BI Publisher Header Disable Access to Guest Page Updates to the BI Publisher Web Services For more details on this release please see: BI Publisher New Features Guide Release Notes Certification Information Note: something is wrong with the doc pages at the time of posting.

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BI Publisher 10.1.3.4.1 Enhancements

Catching up on links to blog posts I’ve found interesting this month … I was on vacation the first week of April, and missed out on the announcement of the release of the Open XML SDK Version 2 April CTP.  Zeyad Rajabi has details of the SDK version 2 over on Brian Jones’s blog, including a great example of the validation technology that is being built into the SDK.  Zeyad also has a new post this week on how to remove comments from Excel and PowerPoint files . Stephen Peront , who will be in London at the DII workshop on May 18, has posted an example of how to use the new External File Converter API in Office 2007 SP2 .  This API gives developers the ability to add their own custom formats to Office’s list of supported formats – the list that appears in the dropdowns on the File/Open and Save/As dialogs.

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Miscellaneous Links, 04/22/2009

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.

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

On the previous post in this blog using Indonesian language, we tried to use property file to access database in order to avoid hardcode mechanism, and the accessing of the property file by using a class named ConfigProperties, now we will try to access property file without using those class but we will try to use Spring Framework to access property file . As we knew, the existence of Spring Framework on Java technology is really-really help us the Java Developer, the modularity of this framework has made the enterprise java project development is easier to rebuild or modify. We will not discuss much more about the Spring Framework here, we only will try to use the Spring Framework one of this framework feature to access property file.

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Accessing Property File Using Spring Framework

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

In this video we will quickly run over XML, what it is, and what it is used for. We will then sit down and write out our very first XML document just a simple list of six people.

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[HD] How to write a simple XML document: Tutorial

Happy New Year to all of you .  As each year passes and a new one begins I often find myself thinking about where to focus or re-focus my time and energy. Recently I have been forwarded or have come upon a number of articles, webinars, research reports, and blogs with a common theme: SOA has failed.  SOA doesn’t work.  SOA is dead.  Maybe it is just me being more sensitive due to my annual ritual of re-evaluation, or maybe there is a real trend underway here.

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It’s 2009 … Are we still talking about SOA?

One day, there’s some one came to me and intent to start learning Java programming, she asked a lot about Java and it’s technology. One of her question based on her story-told is how can we make a Java application which is able to generate an array of prime number?, the problem is, I have forgotten what is the definition of prime number it self, so we had a problem to make the application that will appropriate with her idea. ha..ha..ha..(what an excuse…!!!).

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Find Out Prime Number with Java Application