Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

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]

Interesting links for June 13th from 04:52 to 04:52:

• Compass – Dynamic Properties | KimchyBlog – Compass keeps getting better. http://tinyurl.com/ca2y54 [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1271101334]
• Help Desk and ITIL Service Management software from EMC Infra – @jacksonps4 Haven't used it but EMC Infra looked nice http://www.infra-corp.com/ [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1269773372]
• Cloud Computing: Its Evolution Depends on Economics — Seeking Alpha – RT @Padmasree: Interesting analysis on Cloud Computing http://tinyurl.com/atcros -> high quality analysis indeed. [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1269420601]

Interesting links for June 11th from 11:13 to 14:00:

• Just noticed that after Wordpress upgrade all old… – berkay – FriendFeed – Just noticed that after Wordpress upgrade all old posts showed up in my reader. http://ff.im/-192eR [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1230503705]
• wordpress upgrade was so smooth, impressive! – berkay – FriendFeed – wordpress upgrade was so smooth, impressive! http://ff.im/-18XCV [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1230234437]
• Banned Dutch MP flies in… and is sent straight home again | Mail Online – Dutch MP calls Kuran a "fascist book" and then calls for the book to be banned! Oh the irony.. http://ff.im/-11yWz [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1202457353]
• Business | New Untouchables Of India: Impoverished Children — Millions Died Last Year In Largest Democracy | Seattle Times Newspaper – Last year, nearly 4 million children under age 5 died in India. That's more than the entire population of Los Angeles http://ff.im/-XD57 [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1189449385]
• FT.com / Comment / Analysis – The game changer – RT @timoreilly: RT @moia: Soros on "The Game Changer" in the FT http://tinyurl.com/basrox (So Soros at least isn't afraid to name names.) [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1164220651]
• BSM: Identity Crisis — dougmcclure.net – RT @dmcclure: Published a new post: BSM: Identity Crisis. http://cli.gs/AQU0hV [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1150324142]
• Free the facts! – RT @littleidea: Science is Broken… Free the Facts http://is.gd/hbHo [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1147376272]
• How and Why Glue is Using Amazon SimpleDB instead of a Relational Database – RT @alexiskold: New Blog Post: How and Why Glue is Using Amazon SimpleDB instead of a Relational Database. http://tinyurl.com/8h6jsq [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1136729568]
• Coders Recession Guide | KimchyBlog – RT @kimchy: New blog post: Coders Recession Guide http://tinyurl.com/7ys9te [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1135864996]
• Twilio: Web Service API for Making and Receiving Phone Calls, building hosted IVR and PBX telephone applications – REST api to create voice apps? twilio looks very interesting indeed. http://www.twilio.com/how-twilio-works [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1113343780]
• view from Jura looking at Mt Blanc. unfortunately… – berkay – FriendFeed – view from Jura looking at Mt Blanc. unfortunately we live under the cloud cover seen down there. http://ff.im/-yJhR [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1109368231]
• Terracotta Doesn’t Want to Kill Your Database, Just Maim It – @ikarzali thanks! refers to Terracotta article on Gigaom with comments here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/4pn3eq [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1072686121]
• heading out to Crozet for a (late) day of skiing…. – berkay – FriendFeed – heading out to Crozet for a (late) day of skiing. It sure is cold enough! http://ff.im/lE5V [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1068806809]
• Comment on: Do U E-Fax? – berkay – FriendFeed – Comment on: Do U E-Fax? http://ff.im/lrct [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1068172944]
• Compass JBUG Presentation | KimchyBlog – RT @kimchy: New blog post: Compass JBUG Presentation http://tinyurl.com/3m48bf [from http://twitter.com/berkay/statuses/1068001854]