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SOA, Cloud, and Semantic Web Technology talk

PeterPaul — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:13:22 +0000

Earlier this month a talk by Thomas Erl (bestseller author on SOA and Cloud Computing) on SOA, Cloud Computing and Semantic Web technologies became available on the Arcitura Youtube channel. This talk gives a less than 30 minutes overview in how these work together. It has a focus on highlight promissing areas of synergy.

The definition used for Cloud Computing is:

Cloud computing is a specialized form of distributed computing that introduces utilization models for remotely provisioning scalable and measured IT resources.

The definition used for Semantic Web Technologies is:

Semantic Web Technologies represents a technology platform used to describe artifacts, their properties, and their relationships using machine-processable language.

SOA and Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing and Semantic Web technology

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Stop websites from tracking you

PeterPaul — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:54:43 +0000

An earlier post on how cookies are used to track you, explained how tracking cookies work. This post will show you how to stop websites from tracking you using Firefox 4. This latest release has a Do-not-track feature that lets you tell websites you don’t want your browsing behavior tracked.

By turning on the Do-not-track feature, Firefox tells websites you visit that you don’t want your browsing behavior tracked. Please note that honoring this setting is voluntary. To put it differently websites are not required to respect it.

Turning on the Do-not-track feature in Firefox 4

Click the Firefox button at the top of your browser window and click options.
Make sure you’re on the Advanced panel.
Select the General tab.
In the browsing section check the Tell websites I do not want to be tracked.
Click OK to leave

Check the Tell websites I do not want to be tracked option

Revoke Access to Twitter Account

PeterPaul — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:51:27 +0000

There is a growing number of Twitter Apps that trick you into giving them access to your account and so enabling them to send spam on your behalf. Should you (like me at least once) fall for this trap, here is an easy way to prevent further damage. Use the following url: http://twitter.com/settings/connections or click the links that are highlighted in the screen shot on the right to manage your Twitter connections.

After that you just click Revoke Access below the Application that is using your account to spam others. An example is depicted in the screen shot below (for a non spamming App):

Looking back on 100 blog posts

PeterPaul — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:50:04 +0000

Not only is it the time of year to look back (and think about what the future might bring), I also noticed that deltalounge came to 100 blog posts. Further back in history and perspective my first post ever was on the IT-eye weblog together with people like Mike van Alst, Andrej Koelewijn, and Tom Hofte. Later on I moved to the Whitehorses blog where I joined guys like Edwin Biemond and where I’m still a regular blogger.

Some highlights

There were serial posts on ESB performance tuning, Oracle (Advanced) Queueing and on AIA 11g. There was probably the most extensive coverage of the SOA Symposium by a non-professional blog. However the most eye balls were for the (technical) posts:

Running JDeveloper on 64-bit Windows 7
JDeveloper with SOA Suite extension
Unable to startt HTTP server after restore

and these non-technical posts:

Cloud, SOA and why a CFO should care…
Group Development and a Lessons Learned session
Measuring the Business Value of SOA

Lady Java promoting JavaZone 2010

PeterPaul — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:22:23 +0000

A tweet by meneer pointed me to this promotional video:

Don’t think this will settle the score for Java. However it is a good distraction… What are your thoughts? Please leave them in the comments.

How internet cookies are used to track you

PeterPaul — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:37:59 +0000

The Wall Street Journal posted a video on their Video Center in which it is very clearly explained how internet cookies are used to track you while browsing the web.

In the real world it is very hard to keep track of your preferences, especially between a variety of shops. In the virtual world it is too easy.

Overview Java Web Frameworks

PeterPaul — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:14:52 +0000

This week I came across a good overview of Java Web Frameworks:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mraible/4378559350/

The presentation (that will be given at TSSJS Las Vegas 2010) this time-line originates from, can be found here. The overview was created by Matt Raible of Raible Designs.