June 28, 2006

dashboard, charts

kanskje noko for oss x2?

- kanskje verktøyet er interessant
- kanskje omgrepet dashboard er bra å bruka (jf k-hjul...)

WebCharts3D integrated with IBM’s Workplace Dashboard Framework
A dashboard, in this context, is basically a portlet that consolidates information and control for something
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IBM's Workplace Dashboard Framework delivers reusable service-oriented components, robust administration tools, and dashboard-specific features
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WebCharts3D from GreenPoint enables the creation of professional-quality, server-generated interactive charts ...
Based on XML standards, the product supports multiple popular formats including animated Flash, SVG, PDF, PNG, JPEG and GIF.
... can easily and quickly work with complex charts and graphs of any sort, analyze trends via dynamic visualizations of critical business data, and drill down into the data for more information.

June 23, 2006

virtuell maskin

jf openldap-nedlastning...

virtualization.info: Guide to create .vmx files for VMware Player
To create the new virtual machine you just need two files: a virtual machine configuration file (.vmx) and a virtual machine hard disk (.vmdk).
Technics and tools spreading on the web should produce both files to have a working virtual machine.

June 15, 2006

ADRC Data Recovery Tools

dersom me nokon gong skal gjera noko med den disken...

(mi utheving)
ADRC Data Recovery Tools: " do only critical recovery functions with minimum complexity. It gives you full control to undelete files, disk image back up, restore a backup image, copy files from hard disk with bad sectors, disk cloning, backup, edit and restore your boot parameters."

June 14, 2006

Hyperic - m.a. monitoring

Hyperic - The only open source solution to pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems across all IT environments: "Monitor every layer of your infrastructure

Collect real-time and historical metrics from your production hardware, network, and application layer of your infrastructure without invasive instrumentation."

June 13, 2006

[Ajazz] Asynchronous Data Objects in Javascript

(mine uthevingar)
[Ajazz] Asynchronous Data Objects in Javascript: "Ajazz implements asynchronously fetched client-side data objects for web applications using JavaScript, XMLHttpRequest objects (so-called 'Ajax' techniques), XML, and a program on the server called a listener, which acts as a sort of data dropoff and delivery service.
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Ajazz is designed to be used with DHTML techniques to build responsive, scalable web applications that allow users to sift through large amounts of data without having to transmit it all from the server to the client at one time"

June 12, 2006

ViewVC: arvtagar for viewcvs?

trur denne er betre enn viewcvs. 

ViewVC: Repository Browsing
ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories.
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The only hard software requirement for running ViewVC is Python 1.5.2 or later
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If you plan to use ViewVC with CVS repositories, you need the following things:
  • RCS (Revision Control System)
  • GNU diff
  • Read-only, physical access to a CVS repository.
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ViewVC integrates with additional pieces of software to provide certain bits of optional functionality:
  • MySQL — Needed to use the commit database query functionality.
  • GNU enscript — Needed for syntax highlighting in versioned file contents displays
  • CvsGraph — Needed for version graph displays.
  • Apache HTTP Server, or another server capable of running CGI programs — unless you just want ViewVC to run in standalone server mode.

June 9, 2006

B2B Usability

(min utheving)
B2B Usability (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
One of the biggest differences between B2B and B2C might be that most B2B companies don't seem to see themselves as engaged in e-commerce.
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However, the lack of an Add to cart button doesn't mean that B2B vendors should ignore their websites. The site should still support the many other stages of the buying process -- including the post-sales stages, which are crucial to customers' long-term brand loyalty.
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Most important, B2B sites can be great lead generators. Prospects use websites during their initial research and stick with the helpful sites during subsequent research.

The website represents the company to prospects. In today's world, people don't always save brochures and advertisements, because they assume they can find equivalent information on the Web when the need strikes. Most of our users also said that when they were thinking of doing business with a company, one of their first actions was to check out its website.
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[among user-hostile design:]
The most user-hostile element of most B2B sites is a complete lack of pricing information. And yet, when we asked users to prioritize which of twenty-eight types of B2B site information mattered most to them, prices scored the highest by far (29% higher than product availability, which ranked second).

Sites have many excuses for not wanting to display prices, but they are just that: excuses. Users expect to get a basic understanding of products and services during their initial research, and they can't do that without some idea of what it's going to cost. Even if your company can't list exact prices, there are several ways to indicate price level, which is really all people need initially.


June 7, 2006

Dumbster - Fake SMTP Server

Dumbster - Fake SMTP Server : "The Dumbster is a very simple fake SMTP server designed for unit and system testing applications that send email messages. It responds to all standard SMTP commands but does not deliver messages to the user. The messages are stored within the Dumbster for later extraction and verification.
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The Dumbster is written in Java and is open source."

June 6, 2006

ibm, ajax, dojo

(mine uthevingar)

AJAX Magazine: IBM Contributes Ajax Software Development Technology to Open Source Community
IBM today announced plans to contribute key intellectual assets to the open source community, in an effort to help companies and software developers adopt and share best practices for Ajax software development.
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The software contributions will foster an industry collaboration and adoption of Ajax, a technology that improves web application responsiveness, and do so at a lower cost point and with less complexity. The technology contributions will extend the code already available in the Dojo Toolkit enabling internationalization of applications and making them fully accessible to persons with disabilities through a variety of assistive technologies, including DHTML and Accessible widgets. IBM's donation will also extend the data model already in the Dojo Toolkit and provide a foundation architecture and Web-based tools for the industry to engineer, collaborate on, share and reuse software development best practices.