Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for January 28th through March 13th:

• redirect – RT @indigo423: OpenNMS Group nominated for TM Forum Excellence Award http://shar.es/mbTAP (via @dhustace)
• Firebug Demystified | W3Avenue – Firebug is one of the most popular tool used by web developers – It is a Firefox add-on that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. When you are not using Firefox you can use Firebug Lite – a JavaScript file that you can insert into your pages to simulate some Firebug features in IE, Opera, and Safari.
• RapidOSS and Netcool – What do you get out of the box? | iFountain.com – When you ask a vendor whether their product can do X, what are the chances for the answer to be no? Truth is, if there is any shape or form product can possible do X, regardless of how difficult and painful it may be to do so, the answer would be yes. Hence it is no surprise that people are highly skeptical of any statement made by the vendors.

Interesting links for December 30th through January 27th:

• RapidOSS and Netcool – What do you get out of the box? – A set of screencast on what RapidOSS provides out of the box when it is used with Netcool. Installation and configuration, overview of features, mobile interface, etc.
• AnandTech: The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD – Great review of SSD drives and performance considerations
• iPhone comes to Netcool | iFountain.com – iPhone optimized user interface for Netcool

Interesting links for July 29th through September 27th:

• Trademarkia (TM) Simplifies Trademark Search – Trademarkia let’s you search all U.S. trademarks filed since 1870, including dead marks. The company has scans of all the marks and returns results in a very appealing visual grid. You can search by company, theme, product category, or even filing attorney. Companies can also file a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office through the site.
• Google – Internet Stats – This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.
• GreenMail – Email Test Servers – GreenMail is an open source, intuitive and easy-to-use test suite of email servers for testing purposes.
  Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP with SSL socket support.

  GreenMail is the fist and only library that offers a test framework for both receiving and retrieving emails from Java.

Interesting links for June 29th through July 17th:

• Why is Performance Monitoring so hard? – brettdargan.com – To keep it simple lets categorize them like this:

  * Current State – Instantaneous State based
  * Alerting
  * Historical Stats
  * Trace (System > Component > Request) ~ Vertical Profiling through technologies
  * Profiling – usually technology focused, like Java Profiling
  * Vital Signs

  These have varying levels of intrusiveness; stickiness and probability of working when needed. They also have varying stakeholders, users, requirements, permissions that = red tape that slows you down when you most need the information.

• What do I do for a Living? – Step 4: Correlation & Enrichment | A Monitoring Odyssey… –
• Efficient Services: RapidInsight: Open source Netcool Alternative? – RI is an alternative and a complimenting product to Netcool. Visit below link in case planning/scoping/analysing the roadmap from Netcool

Interesting links for June 22nd through June 25th:

• Theocracy and Its Discontents | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com – RT @GreatDismal: Theocracy and its Discontents, Fareed Zakaria http://tinyurl.com/nu9rxy [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2332184076]
• JavaScript Toolkit for Rich Web Mapping Applications — GeoExt v0.5 – GeoExt brings together the geospatial know how of OpenLayers with ExtJS to build powerful GIS apps on the web with js http://www.geoext.org/ [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2296416778]
• DataflowConcurrency – gparallelizer – Dataflow concurrency offers an alternative concurrency model, which is inherently safe and robust. – Google Code – RT @glaforge: Nice: Dataflow concurrency with #groovy's GParallelizer: http://code.google.com/p/gparallelizer/wiki/DataflowConcurrency [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2277260266]

Interesting links for June 16th through June 21st:

• Flex on Grails ‎(flexongrails)‎ – Flex on Grails Book to be released with Creative commons license http://sites.google.com/site/flexongrails/ http://ff.im/-4fDpj [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2265957275]
• Flex on Grails Book to be released with Creative… – berkay – FriendFeed – Flex on Grails Book to be released with Creative commons license http://sites.google.com/site/flexongrails/ http://ff.im/-4fDpj [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2265957275]
• FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Iran Does Have Some Fishy Numbers – RT @monkchips: RT @timbray If Nate Silver says the election was bogus, that's good enough for me: http://is.gd/12Ace #iranelection [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2190534964]
• Atlassian Developer Blog – Agile Context Switching with "The Disturbed" – Agile Context Switching with "The Disturbed" http://bit.ly/7G6Uu [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2189830715]

Interesting links for June 15th from 22:48 to 23:14:

• Berkay Mollamustafaoglu – Switzerland | Facebook – just for the record, I got my facebook username as well http://www.facebook.com/berkay [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2155146631]
• wingsuit base jumping on Vimeo – birds got nothing on these guys! http://vimeo.com/1778399 [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2130112688]
• Freeriding, participation and another modest proposal | carlodaffara.conecta.it – Good analysis "Freeriding, participation in open source and another modest proposal" http://bit.ly/1uCCkr via @jgehlbach @cdaffara [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2103349091]
• PROJECT DOES NOT EXIST – iFountain Tracking System – @robinharwani Can you open an issue with the error msg http://www.ifountain.org/jira/browse/SUP. Also, in RI, you can see hist. events [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/2084405066]

Interesting links for June 15th from 01:54 to 06:05:

• Escaping quotes in Groovy strings – Messages from mrhaki – simple pain relief, why Groovy just rocks: "Escaping quotes in groovy strings" http://bitly.com/HnPaf [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1637893675]
• Atlassian Developer Blog – Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes – Atlassian is on a roll! Good blog post on how a software company can make it easy for customer to use Amazon EC2 http://bitly.com/yvUzj [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1567621129]
• Putting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube… – berkay – FriendFeed – Putting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube… http://ff.im/-2f0d3 [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1566931072]
• Judith Hurwitz’s Weblog – RT @jhurwitz: Just published new blog on Oracle acquisition of Sun __ http://tiny.cc/BdzIp [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1565816390]
• Atlassian Stimulus Package – 5 user lic for Confluence/JIRA for $5 for charity! sure I can use it for smthing! – http://www.atlassian.com/starter/ via @mcannonbrookes [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1563981404]
• Brain Myths—Busted – MSN Health & Fitness – Health Topics – Brain Myths—Busted http://tinyurl.com/d6ocqs http://ff.im/-2cc1t [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1549161826]

Interesting links for June 15th from 00:48 to 00:49:

• Brain Myths—Busted… – berkay – FriendFeed – Brain Myths—Busted http://tinyurl.com/d6ocqs http://ff.im/-2cc1t [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1549161826]
• iFountain.com – Stop the presses! RapidInsight wins EMC Smarts 2008 Offering of the Year Award http://bitly.com/msHda http://ff.im/-2b9pL [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1541907118]
• Stop the presses! RapidInsight wins EMC Smarts… – berkay – FriendFeed – Stop the presses! RapidInsight wins EMC Smarts 2008 Offering of the Year Award http://bitly.com/msHda http://ff.im/-2b9pL [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1541907118]
• The Civil Heretic – Freeman Dyson – Profile – NYTimes.com – The Civil Heretic: Freeman Dyson http://tr.im/iY52 http://ff.im/-29PF6 [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1534441221]
• The Civil Heretic: Freeman Dyson http://tr.im/iY52 – berkay – FriendFeed – The Civil Heretic: Freeman Dyson http://tr.im/iY52 http://ff.im/-29PF6 [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1534441221]
• Mashup, Not Smashups! – IT Management 2.0 – RT @SuzySpaatz: RT @EMCITManagement: Mashup, Not Smashups! http://twurl.nl/mkuzfr — if you are interested in Service Management, read this [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1532940564]

Interesting links for June 13th from 07:34 to 11:07:

• YouTube – Centraal Station Antwerpen gaat uit zijn dak! – RT @yourdon: Another amazing train-station "impromptu" dance: this one in Antwerpen's Centraal Station. http://bit.ly/bSfiP [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1505891525]
• Groovy web console – RT @glaforge: Toying with a #Groovy web console on #gae –> http://groovyconsole.appspot.com/ [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1494721919]
• Write your Google App Engine applications in Groovy | SpringSource Team Blog – RT @glaforge: The news is on the street: Groovy support in Google App Engine! http://tinyurl.com/groovy-appengine [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1474856114]
• Compass 2.2.0 GA Released | KimchyBlog – RT @kimchy: Compass 2.2.0 GA Released: http://www.kimchy.org/compass-220-ga-released/ [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1469123096]
• Blog.ControlTier: New Whitepaper: Achieving Fully Automated Provisioning – RT @damonedwards: Web Ops 2.0:Fully Automated Prov. with Open Source Tools (plus ControlTier&Puppet integration) http://bit.ly/37tKtu [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1446261336]
• Simple consistent interfaces to external systems | iFountain.com – new blog post: What we mean by simple interfaces in IT management http://tr.im/icx6 [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1445498894]
• SourceForge.net: ControlTier – controltier – @damonedwards I think I finally may have understood what ControlTier does & how it relates to Puppet Good explanation! http://tr.im/iaD8 [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1441332522]
• WeFollow: A User Powered Twitter Directory – Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #itmanagement #software #startup [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1439824643]
• Document Not Found – not sure about using Remedy and low M&O cost in the same sentence but good post on what to ask when evaluating via @matt_L http://is.gd/q2IJ [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1430908678]
• JOURNEY OF MANKIND – The Peopling of the World – Journey of Mankind. Interactive trail adapted from "Out of Eden"/"The Real Eve" http://ff.im/-1NrsG [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1412892391]
• Why Cisco, Not IBM, Should Buy Sun – I'm with Om, Cisco should not let IBM swallow SUN. http://tinyurl.com/ceqp67 [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1350379463]
• Grails – CodeEditor Plugin – RT @graemerocher: Nuts, a Grails web based IDE: http://grails.org/CodeEditor+Plugin – [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1342738908]
• Botchagalupe – Cramer v Stewart – just watched Jon Stewart's Jim Cramer interview. Hats off Jon! http://ff.im/-1×9dg [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1333527021]