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H-1B Visas Rife with Fraud, Government FindsThirteen percent of the H-1B visas granted are based on fraud and another 8% contain so-called technical violations, according to a study just done by the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, and forwarded to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The USCIS processes visa petitions and, given the findings, says it's making procedural changes that haven't been disclosed yet.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 10-Oct-2008 00:45
SOA World Expo - Web Services Using Apache CXF
Since its emergence, Web Service technology has gone a long way towards perfecting itself and finding its right application in the real world. With the maturity of the specifications, Web Service technology, with its power of interoperability, is now the major enabling technology of SOA, which is being adopted by more and more enterprises to build their application integration infrastructure.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 06-Oct-2008 21:00
Google-Yahoo Deal Put on Hold
Yahoo?s life-saving revenue-enhancing alliance with Google, supposedly set to kick off in a week and substitute for a Microsoft buy-out, has been put on hold while antitrust regulators at the Department of Justice continue their investigation. The companies issued separate statements late Friday saying they had agreed to a "brief delay in implementing the agreement."
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 05-Oct-2008 13:15
Ulitzer Named "Content Sponsor" of AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo
Ulitzer.com which initially made the headlines with its ?job descriptions from the future,? announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer ?beta? site with 6,500 authors and close to 1 million original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific online journals. Each journal offers up to 14 content-specific sections, written by the world?s most-respected authors, who are experts in their particular fields. All Ulitzer authors will get paid for their contributions. Ulitzer, based on Drupal 6.0 CMS platform, is the largest Drupal installation successfully rolled out anywhere.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 04-Oct-2008 20:30
Top RIA Providers to Compete for "AJAX World Best of Show Awards"
On October 20-22, in the San Jose Fairmont Hotel, California, AJAXWorld 2008 RIA Sponsors and Exhibitors will be viewed as the leading companies driving the future of Enterprise Rich Internet Applications. This year at AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo 2008 West, delegates will have the opportunity to cast their vote for their favorite AJAX, RIA and Web 2.0 technology provider.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 04-Oct-2008 18:00
AJAX and RIAs & Enterprise Software Suite
In this presentation, David Knight will discuss how the availability of an AJAX platform for aggregating and monetizing content is likely to dramatically transform the enterprise software business, with end-user companies no longer locked into a single software-suite provider for their applications. He will examine how AJAX-enabled platforms can be used to recreate the suite experience in multiple application areas, freeing companies to shop around for the best solution available ¬ or create their own application. The speaker will also discuss how AJAX can allow businesses to recreate the desktop experience and enhance worker productivity with integrated applications.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 29-Sep-2008 17:00
Keynote Systems Named "Platinum Sponsor" of AJAX World RIA Conference
Keynote Systems is a provider of on-demand test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience. As an independent third party, Keynote provides IT and marketing executives with an unbiased view into their Internet services from around the world and enables companies to understand and improve their customer's online and mobile experience. Keynote's test and measurement businesses include Web performance, mobile quality, streaming & VoIP, and customer experience/UX. Keynote's industry analysis group, Keynote Competitive Research, publishes proprietary studies measuring customer experience and service levels across a wide range of industries.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 29-Sep-2008 14:30
Why Open Source Is Euro-Chic
Larry Augustin recently wrote about the differences between how Europe and the US view the open source software market. His comments came after attending the Olliance Think Tank conference in Paris this week (tough assignment, that). He identified a number of differences between how Europe and the US view open source. For example, he gives the primary European reason for adoption open source as wanting to avoid vendor lock-in, while the primary reason for adopting open source in the US is cost.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 29-Sep-2008 00:00
How to Use JavaScript 2 Today with OpenLaszlo
JavaScript 2 is becoming increasingly important. Learn how to take advantage of JavaScript 2 while still running in today's browsers. Leverage your current JavaScript and HTML skills to build applications that run in Flash 7-9, DHTML and more with no code changes! OpenLaszlo 4.2 includes a new JavaScript 2-based compiler that translates JS2 syntax to a variety of formats, including JS 1.5, Actionscript 1 & 2 and Actionscript 3. When Firefox 4 is out, we'll be ready with native JavaScript 2.0 support! Come learn about this exciting new development, and about the new features designed to make developing complex apps easy, including cross-browser history and vector graphics support.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 19-Sep-2008 02:00
Design-Based Rich Web App Development: The Essential New Paradigm
Design is the single most important criterion that determines a successful web application, yet web application development tools are totally oriented around programming and exclude designers from all but the initial stages of the development life-cycle. There is growing debate now emerging: do designers need to learn programming or do programmers need to learn design? The profound difference in these two disciplines makes such hybrid skills extremely unlikely. Time, then, for a new paradigm, where web application development is abstracted into a primarily design-focused discipline, with programmer input reduced to a relatively small, though necessary part of the process.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 17-Sep-2008 15:00
Building RIAs Using Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Rich Internet Applications using AJAX technology has truly improved the end user experience. But, as a developer if you are new to it, be warned: AJAX projects can quickly degenerate into a nightmare of spaghetti script. Large JavaScript technology code bases are often hard to write, read, test, and debug--not to mention the complexity of efficiently supporting multiple browsers. If you are a Java developer, you have another choice - the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT is a lightweight, reusable Java technology framework has taken a unique approach to developing rich internet applications to wrangle AJAX coding issues. The Google Web Toolkit addresses code reuse, performance, multibrowser support, debugging, and testing AJAX applications.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 15-Sep-2008 21:00
Adobe Named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For more than two decades, the company's software and technologies have set new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content across multiple media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected software brands, Adobe is one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 15-Sep-2008 19:15
Transforming J2EE Applications Into Web 2.0 Using GWT
The pressure is on to keep pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. Rewriting is expensive; adding AJAX widgets results in a complex, unmaintainable application. Both require you to hire scarce JavaScript developers. Google Web Toolkit -- the SDK that allows you to write AJAX interfaces in Java -- enables your Java developers to layer a desktop-like interface on top of your Web app. Learn to analyze the service profile of your application, to change HTML views into XML or JSON services, and to resist opening security holes by putting state and control flow logic into the client.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 14-Sep-2008 21:00
SOA World Expo - The Rise of WOA
How does SOA work, how can it be used? And what is WOA? With the use of a real-world example,this article describes why a properly planned and implemented Service Oriented Architecture can create a flexible way of aligning business and IT.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 14-Sep-2008 10:30
How To Build On-Demand Business Apps Using Force.com & Adobe Flex
Enterprises are enthusiastically embracing the shift from traditional client/server computing to SaaS. Inspired by customers who have embraced the Web, developers are using RIA tools to create innovative new on-demand business applications. One important factor in the shift from traditional computing to SaaS has been ease of use through vendors' careful attention to the user experience utilizing RIA technologies. This jointly presented session will present how RIA technologies such as AJAX and Flex - in combination with the Force.com platform - provide all the tools necessary for developers to build an enterprise-class application - sometimes within hours!
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 13-Sep-2008 20:45
Cloud Computing Expo - Why I Like Google Chrome
It's simple and minimalistic, has a small memory footprint and is easy on the CPU. Flash player works fine on my Windows XP box. JavaFX developers should like it too.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 12-Sep-2008 06:00
Remaining VMware Co-Founder Bails
After VMware's parent company EMC removed his wife Diane Greene as CEO on July 7, VMware co-founder and chief scientist Mendel Rosenblum has followed Greene out the door. Reportedly she was dismissed for failing to meet sales expectations by a country mile and for failing to keep costs in line. At VMworld in Vegas next week the company is expecting a record 14,000 people.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 11-Sep-2008 22:30
The End of VMware
The Democrats had their convention, followed by the Republicans. As VMware gets ready for its own convention, Microsoft has rained on their parade by holding its 'Get Virtual Now' Virtualization party one week ahead of VMware's. I am looking at the news headlines this morning and all I see is that every possible Virtualization company, large and small, is rushing to declare its tools are either ready or will be ready very soon to play in Microsoft's Virtualization Olympics.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 10-Sep-2008 14:30
The Cloud Crowd in 2008: Top Cloud Computing Providers
Anyone allowing their search engine of choice to filter through the googols of bytes of data on the Web relating to "cloud computing" has during 2008 been rewarded with an exponentially increasing number of hits. But who are the companies currently most involved and what are their current offerings? SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal zeroes in on the facts and the faces behind this white-hot Enterprise IT technology trend.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 08-Sep-2008 12:00
Google Chrome - Browser War III
Google will come out from behind the Firefox browser that it?s been pumping money into ? and profiting royally from ? and take direct aim at Microsoft with a browser of its very own. The widgetry is called Google Chrome and Google Chrome, like all of Google?s non-search widgetry, will be a beta.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 02-Sep-2008 07:15
AJAX World RIA Conference Early Bird Savings to Expire This Friday
Rich Internet Applications offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is still open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 26-Aug-2008 23:15
Install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack and You Die
I'll keep this blog post short and sweet because the more I think about it the more I get close to the verge of exploding. Here's my situation: I had Visual Studio 2008 Professional installed. From scratch, clean install. Everything works great, all is good in the Microsoft world of .NET. Yay me! Now, I have a particular need to compile and run code that will only work on .NET 3.5 SP1 so I install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1... and it completely and totally prevents me from building any WPF application. I can create a brand new WPF application with File->New and immediately hit Build and I will see the same failures. It complains about 'SplashScreen' and then complains about failures in 'MarkupCompilePass1' task.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 24-Aug-2008 21:45
Is VMware Buying Red Hat?
Because of its slow growth - a factor of the freebie open source business model - Red Hat has become fodder for Wall Street acquisition speculation, BusinessWeek says, and offers VMware as a possible suitor. Such an acquisition would give VMware the operating system it's lacking, make its products cheaper and make it a more viable competitor against Microsoft - or so the theory goes. BusinessWeek claims to have heard from "some industry executives" that VMware is looking for an operating system and says ousted VMware CEO Diane Greene "had set up meetings with Red Hat in part to position VMware as friendly to open source and possibly as a prelude to a buyout discussion." Red Hat also needs the virtualization halo for growth.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 23-Aug-2008 18:45
Cloud Computing and Virtualization Perfect Together
Recently I've been asked about the benefits of cloud computing in comparison to that of virtualization. Generally my answer has been they are an ideal match. For the most part virtualization has been about doing more with less (consolidation). VMware in particular positioned their products and pricing in a way that encourages you to use the least amount of servers possible. The interesting thing about cloud computing is it's about doing more with more. Or if you're Intel, doing more with Moore.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 23-Aug-2008 05:00
Cloud Computing Pioneer to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo
David Young, Co-Founder & CEO of cloud-computing specialist Joyent, is the latest Cloud Computing pioneer to join the distinguished Speaking Faculty of SYS-CON's pathbreaking "Cloud Computing Expo" being held November 19-21, 2008 in San Jose, California. He will speak on "The Open Cloud: Building a Customer-Centric Cloud Computer" - a session in which Young willl explore the essential characteristics of building a cloud infrastructure that gives customers the freedom to change vendors while exploiting the values of cloud computing.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 23-Aug-2008 03:00
Cloud Computing for Government
Despite its possible security and privacy risks, Cloud Computing - according to a magazine article due to be published later this Fall - has six main benefits that the public sector and government IT organizations are certain to want to take advantage of. They are as follows...
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 22-Aug-2008 22:30
The Critical Role of Automation in a Virtualized World
Virtualization is today's "green" knight in shining armor, drastically slashing power, hardware and real estate costs. However, with all this efficiency comes a vast increase in complexity that threatens mission-critical business processing. Is there a way to slay that dragon as well? Enterprise schedulers provide automation capabilities that provide a solution.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 19-Aug-2008 01:00
Cloud Computing - Predominantly an IT Operation Outsourcing Trend
The shift created by SaaS as well as Cloud Computing is retargeting the IT supported business process services towards the mid-market where it will proliferate in a very different direction. The value that is created by the on-demand capacity inherent to Cloud Computing is the big differentiator here for both startup and established business.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 19-Aug-2008 00:45
Cloud Computing Expo - Cloud Spotting
Since Microsoft's forecast - and its margin implications - is nothing to sneeze at, we asked industry analyst and cloud spotter Amy Wohl what she has been seeing. 'The first thing to keep in mind is that we have some semantic confusion, as is usual at this stage of a new market, around just what is a cloud. We are now pretty sure that what we used to call grids and what we now call clouds is the same thing. But we also have things called 'platforms' that seem to be very much like a kind of cloud (and are sometimes called clouds) and then there is SaaS itself which looks very much like a cloud with some application software (and some SaaS vendors describe their offering just that way). I'd say we can agree that a cloud is managed computing power, often with applications, accessed across the Internet. And I'll agree that a company can have its own cloud, if it wants one.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 18-Aug-2008 19:15
Virtualization Expo - Microsoft Schedules Virtualization Party To Spoil VMware?s
Microsoft is inviting its nearest and dearest ? (and probably VMware?s nearest and dearest too) to a great one-day virtualization launch event on Monday September 8 in Bellevue, Washington. It?s the beginning of a six-month drumbeat.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 17-Aug-2008 22:00
Rationale for a SOA Shared Service Center
Over the past several years, there has been much fanfare regarding the promise of SOA. However, as with any IT-related solution, it is not a magic bullet or cure-all for IT integration. In fact, SOA does not solve business process problems, but rather identifies both the good and bad organizational processes. In most instances, SOA will require additional front-loaded costs until a critical mass of services are developed for reuse.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 17-Aug-2008 14:00
Cloud Computing Expo - Lenovo To Field Netbook
Lenovo has gone into the netbook business with a one-inch-deep 2lb XP-based Atom IdeaPad S10 with a 10.2-inch screen. The company says it intends to add other models that target students. The widget can be had in black, white or glossy ruby red.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 17-Aug-2008 13:00
LinMin API Adds Bare Metal Provisioning All Around
A new API is supposed to integrate LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.2 into environments that haven?t been able to do bare metal provisioning of Windows, Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora or Asianux on physical systems or virtual machines before. The rev also features single-command installation.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 16-Aug-2008 12:15
Cloud Computing Expo - Schmidt Speaks
Jim Cramer?s been doing a stint on CNBC in the middle of the trading day and, being a Google booster, managed to entice Google?s usually standoffish CEO Eric Schmidt on the air the other day. Schmidt said Google?s stock wouldn?t split and that Google wouldn?t start issuing guidance (it would distract Googlers from ?trying to change the world,? he said).
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 16-Aug-2008 05:00
Cloud Computing - Yahoo Raises Geo-Awareness
Yahoo has opened up its Fire Eagle platform ? in private beta since March ? to all and sundry. It gives users a place to store and manage information about their location, and offers developers protocols for updating or accessing that information.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 16-Aug-2008 03:15
View "Virtualization Power Panel" Live on SYS-CON.TV
Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' recorded on June 22, 2008, the day before the opening of SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo - which was held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 15-Aug-2008 18:15
Mistake Cripples VMware Servers
A time bomb reportedly left over from the beta of VMware?s two-week-old update to ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2) caused product licenses to expire yesterday. It also happened with a patch to ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5 Update 2.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 15-Aug-2008 15:15
SYS-CON's Virtualization Expo Was Larger Than Any Gartner Event in Two Years
Virtualization has quickly become a staple new concept for enterprise IT. At SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, June 23-24, we had exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is fundamentally altering the way that businesses run IT. The two content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of virtualization.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 30-Jul-2008 01:15
ColdFusion Developer's Journal Special: How to Prevent an SQL Injection Attack
SQL Injection attacks are one of the easiest ways to hack into a website. One recent hack, using a script from verynx.cn, involves injecting sql into a web form that then appends some JavaScript code into fields in a database that then gets executed on the client side when a user views a database-driven page.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 28-Jul-2008 21:45
ColdFusion Developer's Journal Special: How to Prevent an SQL Injection Attack
SQL Injection attacks are one of the easiest ways to hack into a website. One recent hack, using a script from verynx.cn, involves injecting sql into a web form that then appends some JavaScript code into fields in a database that then gets executed on the client side when a user views a database-driven page.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 28-Jul-2008 20:45
AJAX & RIA Journal Special: Results of OpenAjax Alliance's Browser Feature Wish List
What does the AJAX community want from future browsers? How are these different requests prioritized? Web developers have done amazing things with AJAX for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applications, but what barriers need to be removed to enable the next generation of browser-based innovations? The future of AJAX runtime environments matters more than ever today.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 17-Jul-2008 12:45
AJAX & RIA Journal Special: Results of OpenAjax Alliance's Browser Feature Wish List
What does the AJAX community want from future browsers? How are these different requests prioritized? Web developers have done amazing things with AJAX for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applications, but what barriers need to be removed to enable the next generation of browser-based innovations? The future of AJAX runtime environments matters more than ever today.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 17-Jul-2008 11:45
Virtualization - Parallels Claims To Be Unaffected by Hyper-V's Backwash
Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov sent around his response to Microsoft's surprise release of Hyper-V last week: 'While he figures it'll lower the barriers to server virtualization adoption - and tear a piece out of VMware's hide - 'the breath of 20 deployments will still be fairly narrow the feature set of Hyper-V is limited...with no support for Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, FreeBSD.'
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 14-Jul-2008 15:00
Virtualization - VMware Suffers Meltdown
There's a little puddle on Wall Street where VMware, the virtualization leader and the most brilliant IPO since Google went public, used to be. EMC, VMware's parent company, announced mid-morning that VMware co-founder Diane Greene was out presumably because the company isn't going to make its full-year 2008 guidance of 50% growth over 2007 and it hasn't reported its second quarter yet. EMC said it would come in at 'modestly below' its goal.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 12-Jul-2008 18:45
Cloud Computing - Morgan Stanley is Banking on the Cloud
Regardless of the downturn in the markets, Morgan Stanley is on track to spend more than ever on their IT budget. They seem to think that during periods of lower economic activity it gives them a rare opportunity to establish themselves in new areas of emerging technology that may give them a competitive advantage down the road.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 11-Jul-2008 21:45
SYS-CON's "Cloud Computing Expo" - Call for Papers Open Through July 31
The future model for providing IT infrastructure and services in large organizations is what many today are calling 'Cloud Computing' - a concept popularized by Amazon through its web services efforts. Merrill Lynch analysts for example reckon that by 2011 the volume of Cloud Computing market opportunity will amount to $160BN, including $95N in business and productivity apps (e-mail, office, CRM, etc.) and $65BN in online advertising.
Source : coldfusion developer's journal | 11-Jul-2008 13:00