Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for May 28th through June 2nd:

• Is the CMDB Irrelevant in a Virtual and Cloud Based World? | The Virtualization Practice – RT @Bernd_Harzog: Is the CMDB Irrelevant in a Virtual and Cloud Based World? http://bit.ly/9h7UcU Config and performance data for #VMwa …
• Os Gémeos + Blu, Lisbon – unurth | street art – superb street art from Lisbon http://bit.ly/acq7SB
• Know Your Followers – Just used http://bit.ly/know-your-followers to see when my followers are online

Interesting links for April 24th through May 25th:

• SaaS model in IT Operations Management – is it in our future? – One thing is for certain that if SaaS gains traction in IT Ops, our lives will never be the same! I think it is time to assess what the implications of SaaS may be and figure out what we need to do to surf the wave rather than getting swept by it.
• ElasticSearch – ElasticSearch 0.7.1 Released – ElasticSearch 0.7.1 Released http://bit.ly/bMsnNc -> wanna learn how to dev modern sw? study ES! dist, async, cloud ready, zero config, etc

Interesting links for April 20th from 08:47 to 14:43:

• Easy VMware Development with VI Java API and Groovy | virtual insanity – RT @aalmiray Easy VMware Development with VI Java API and Groovy http://bit.ly/8YXPQF
• dy/dan » Blog Archive » My TEDxNYED Session — Math Curriculum Makeover – great short presentation from Dan Meyer @ddmeyer about how to change the math curriculum http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=6548
• Steve Blank On How Startups Evolve Into Large Companies – According to Blank, the line he draws between smaller startups and larger companies is based around the business model. Startups, he says, exist in the state where they are searching for a business model, and large companies are the result of finding and executing that business model. The reason he calls out accountants in the title of his talk is that as startups transition into larger companies, their less conventional methodologies become more traditional, and that's when accountants are needed
• Steve Blank On How Startups Evolve Into Large Companies – According to Blank, the line he draws between smaller startups and larger companies is based around the business model. Startups, he says, exist in the state where they are searching for a business model, and large companies are the result of finding and executing that business model. The reason he calls out accountants in the title of his talk is that as startups transition into larger companies, their less conventional methodologies become more traditional, and that's when accountants are needed

Interesting links for April 9th through April 19th:

• ElasticSearch – ElasticSearch Just Got Groovy – RT @kimchy: RT @elasticsearch: ElasticSearch Just Got Groovy http://bit.ly/aJPOWw
• the Web Service, SOA and SOAP Testing Tool – soapUI – @dmcclure SoapUI comes close if I understood you correctly. http://www.soapui.org/
• ElasticSearch – ElasticSearch 0.6.0 Released – RT @kimchy: RT @elasticsearch: ElasticSearch 0.6.0 Released http://www.elasticsearch.com//blog/2010/04/09/0.6.0_released.html

Interesting links for April 6th through April 8th:

• Daring Fireball: New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler – wow can Apple get any more evil? http://bit.ly/cOKDgV
• wastesorting: Securing Grails with Spring Security, Part 1 – Grails as well as Spring are highly agile environments. Sometimes so agile that it is difficult to find plugins for current versions.<br />
  Although there are several approaches to securing Grails apps using plugins I wanted to stick to Spring Security.
• Site Tour Creator – Simple. Free. Open Source. | Amberjack – Amberjack enables webmasters to create cool site tours, without the need to take screenshots or record screencasts.<br />
  Amberjack improves the usability of your website through easy, great looking and helpful tours.<br />
  Amberjack installs with no hassle. The comfortable Tour Wizard gives you HTML code to paste in your site.<br />
  Amberjack is a lightweight (~4K), stable, LGPLed & browser compatible JavaScript library.

Interesting links for March 20th through April 1st:

• Deployment management design patterns for DevOps – Blog – dev2ops – Solving Large Scale Web Operations and DevOps Problems – But where are the design patterns embodying best practices for managing software operations? Where is the catalog of design patterns for managing software deployments? What is needed is a set of design patterns for managing the operation of a software system in the large. Design patterns like these would be useful to those that automate any of these tasks and will facilitate those tools developers who have adopted the "infrastructure as code" philosophy.
• Virtualization Management, Optimization and Automation Appliances | VMTurbo – A white paper by VMTurbo (requires registration): Operations Management in the Age of Virtualization http://www.vmturbo.com/
• InfoQ: Industrial Strength Groovy – RT @glaforge: Watching "Industrial Strength Groovy" by Paul King http://bit.ly/9HrXDS (infoQ)-> excellent!

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