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2 days ago
Probably the most promising technology I’ve seen on this year’s DevOxx is Infinispan, a highly scalable data grid platform from JBoss. It’s essentially the next major release of JBoss Cache, but it has a seriously expanded potential, especially if you combine it with the emerging availability of cloud computing. A possible application will be a distributed data store on massive amount of nodes in a cloud environment. Through the massive distribution of the data in the data grid, you have continuus availability, very high redundancy and endless scalability + a relatively easy management (some positive evolution of the current cloud possibilities taken into account) When JBoss will be able to realize their vision, technology like Infinispan will be able to replace traditional RDBMS engines “in the cloud”. We’re not there yet, because the JPA-Like interface they envision will be not yet available in the upcoming 4.0 release, but is part of the roadmap for v5.0. It will take at ...
66 days ago
Zo ziet ons huisje er tegenwoordig uit: met garagepoort ! Nog een beetje wachten, en dan komen onze ramen – eindelijk …
86 days ago
I must admit, I'm a big fan of Google Docs. The features that Google has poored into this offering are simply amazing, whether it's about spreadsheets (which I use most), documents or presentations. Recently I've discovered that you can use Google Docs also to publish and distribute PDF documents. Using this feature is quite easy : simply upload the file and define the collaborators. Done! Google's technology will take care of the visualization of the PDF file in your browser, which is quite handy. Unfortunately, it's not possible to change the contents of the file, but you can't have it all ... All in all, Google is starting to put together an offering that becomes more and more competitive in the office and document management space. More of this ! E.g. : distribute Visio documents?
93 days ago
‘k hoop dat de plakker dezelfde mening is toegedaan is, maar het ziet er alvast goed uit ;-)
