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- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 5
- Today is the last day of a 5-day course on iPhone programming class led by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I've been taking notes on how development for the iPhone compares to development for Android. By the way, BNR also offers Android courses if you're interested....
- Tags: Program, Apple iPhone, Web Service, Android, iPhone API, Settings App, Android Preference, Cloud Computing, Web Services, XML, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- A Comparison of J2EE and .NET as Platforms for Teaching Web Services
- .NET and J2EE are the two leading technologies in enterprise-level application development. They are also the platforms of choice for developing Web services. This paper compare the two platforms using parameters such as features present in each platform, tools and resources offered by the two and compatibility with the rest...
- Tags: Web, Platform, Web Service, J2Ee, Application Servers, Middleware, .Net, Java, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Programming Languages
- White papers 2008-10-23
- What happens when the "cloud" starts to precipitate? A hard rain's agonna fall . . .
- I use a lot of online services and I try to push as many applications as I can into the cloud. This means that I can work from anywhere on virtually any computer device. I don't need a personal computer (but I do need a personal cellphone - the new...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Web Services Company, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- WSO2 eases enterprise data availability for SOA access, consumption
- In its initial release, the application supports access to data stored in relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL and IBM DB2, as well as the comma-separated values CSV file format, and Excel spreadsheets. It allows users to authenticate, encrypt and sign services using the WS-Security and HTTP security standards. In...
- Tags: Data Service, Web, Database Administrator, Enterprise Data, Web Service, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Reviewing an IRS web services report
- Reviewing an IRS web services reportWhere's Anton?This is a great example of his "empower the users" by letting them run whatever M$ software they "need" on their PCs. To hell with those big bad IT admins - we'll just do it ourselves! Unfortunately now the security of the entire IRS...
- Tags: Web servers, Servers, Web service, server, Web server, Murph, Internal Revenue Service
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Reviewing an IRS web services report
- If you want to know just how bad things get when both the auditors and the people trying to end run them are utterly clueless - then you should read this IRS internal IT review report. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Web Server, Web Service, Internal Revenue Service, Web Servers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services, Part 2: Storage in the Cloud With Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- In this paper, learn more about Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 is a highly scalable and fast Internet data-storage system that makes it simple to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere in the world. One pays for the storage and bandwidth based on...
- Tags: S3 Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-08-19
- Jobs acknowledges MobileMe failure
- Steve Jobs admitted that Apple launched its MobileMe web service prematurely. Apple should now deploy a status reporting system. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Steve Jobs, Web Service, Apple Inc., Cloud Computing, Web Services, E-mail, 3G, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services, Part 1: Introduction - When It's Smarter to Rent Than to Buy
- Cloud computing can be loosely defined as using scalable computing resources provided as a service from outside the environment on a pay-per-use basis. One uses only what one needs, and pay for only what one uses. One can access any of the resources that live in the "Cloud" at any...
- Tags: Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing
- White papers 2008-07-29
- Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruit
- Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruitSO at AA level is still SOAI fully appreciate Burton Group's view that SO is best applied to business/enterprise architecture. That's where the biggest payoff is ostensibly to be found."The service is only built for one application and it’s never going...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, emperor, SOA, Anne, application architecture, Burton Group, silo, Web service, mentality
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Demographics forging a new Net market: It's not your kids' Web
- It's easy and fashionable to talk about "digital natives" that have grown up online, but the demographics of the United States are shifting radically to the grey and Web services developers should heed that news and make changes in their products and plans as a result. Old coots, like me,...
- Tags: U.S., Web, Web Service, Advertising Age, West, Channel Management, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Learning Curve Journal, Part 4: Accessing a Web Service
- This Learning Curve Journal series introduced a number of basic concepts and techniques to help one get started using the JavaFX Script programming language shortened in this series to JavaFX Script. This paper demonstrates how to use JavaFX Script to access a web service. In doing that, it also showed...
- Tags: Web, Sun Microsystems Inc., Web Service, Series, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Java, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2008-07-01
- MSDN Webcast: Integrating SAP Software With Microsoft Office Programs and SharePoint Server (Level 300)
- This webcast provide an overview of how to integrate SAP software with client programs in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The presenter discusses building Web services within SAP, integrating SAP Web services with a custom Microsoft Office client program, and integrating SAP Web...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Webcast, Microsoft SharePoint, Web Service, SAP AG, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Webcasts 2008-06-30
- MSDN Webcast: Building Asynchronous Contextual Collaboration With Exchange Web Services (Level 300)
- This webcast shows how to build mashups using the data in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). It shows what one can do with Exchange Web Services, and some examples with code such as resource schedules and interactive organizational charts. The webcast also shows how to move old...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Web, Collaboration, Webcast, Microsoft Exchange Server, Web Service, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-06-26
- MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do With Silverlight 2 (Part 4 of 6): Web Services Support (Level 200)
- Microsoft Silverlight 2 has a robust networking stack, and it supports Representational State Transfer REST, SOAP, WS, HTTP endpoints, and even cross-domain networking. This webcast examines how to implement calls to Web services from the Silverlight 2 Microsoft .NET-connected applications using a variety of methods, including standard ASP.NET Web Services...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Webcast, Web Service, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight 2, SOAP, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-06-23
- MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Web Services (Level 200)
- This webcast is on SharePoint Products and Technologies for Microsoft .NET developers. SharePoint Products and Technologies make it possible to allow list data access using code running on the server machine and also using Web services. This webcast covers some of the simple Web services provided by SharePoint Products and...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Developer Network, Web, Microsoft .NET, Webcast, Microsoft SharePoint, Web Service, Collaboration, Groupware, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-06-10
- Apache CXF: What the future holds for Web services frameworks and dynamic languages
- A lot of these projects, like Camel and ServiceMix, require some sort of Web-services stack, and they've basically come to CXF as a very easy-to-use and very embeddable service stack that they are using to meet their Web-services needs. ... One of CXF's advantages is what you want to do...
- Tags: Web, Iona Technologies, Web Service, Apache Software Foundation, Technology, Apache CXF, Web-service, Groovy Web Service, Open Source, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- From BIT Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From BIT Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeContextThe reason COBOL still does most of the work today is because it has handled, is handling, and will handle simple tasks effectively on software that already exists and has been creepingly adapted to current circumstances.(You wouldn't want to quote that...
- Tags: Mainframes, Strategy, Leadership, Programming languages, Servers, IBM Corp., COBOL, innovation, information technology, Web service, business side, mainframe, Web, IBM mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- Calais 2.0 unveiled by Thomson Reuters
- In a press release to coincide with this week's Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, Thomson Reuters subsidiary ClearForest has announced a major upgrade to their OpenCalais web service; Calais 2.0. Calais was originally launched in January of 2008, and there have been two interim releases in...
- Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Web, Team, Drupal, Yahoo! Inc., Web Service, Tom Tague, Marmoset, Tom, Upshot, RDF, Semantic Web, Team Management, Channel Management, Web Services, Internet, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Semantic Matchmaking of Web Services Using Model Checking
- Service matchmaking is the process of finding suitable services given by the providers for the service requests of consumers. Previous approaches to service matchmaking is mostly based on matching the input-output parameters of service requests and service provisions. However, such approaches do not capture the semantics of the services and...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Matchmaking, Service, IFAAMAS, Service Matchmaking, Requests, Real Estate, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2008-05-16
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