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VMWare Fusion 3.0 - It's FAST
VMWare released VMWare Fusion 3.0 on October 27, 2009 . Among many enhancements and features, the most anticipated is compatibility with Max OSX Snow Leoparf 10.6 - specifically VMWare guests become 64-bit processes in this release. After they resolved...
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Parallels 4.0.3846 - Networking Problems Solution...
Using Parallels 4.0, a desktop virtualization product, has been productive. The interface is great, performance has never been a problem - my Mac easily handles two VMs running at the same time under Parallels 4.0. An intermittent networking problem surfaced...
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ArtOfBabel.com - Call for Articles
Art Of Babel is seeking articles about integration technologies, techniques, and approaches including EAI, BPM, SOA, ESB, and a broad range of other three letter acronyms. Interested? Write a 200-250 word synopsis of your article and send it to ' ); document...
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Opening Soon - Preview ArtOfBabel.com
ArtOfBabel.com , a new online magazine about integration, is opening soon! I run the magazine and am positioning it to be a useful resource for architects, developers, and business decision makers. Art Of Babel is an independent online magazine covering...
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Visitor Traction
Thanks for your questions - Iām happy to answer them when I have time. Your questions are one of the major sources of information I use for ideas for new articles or posts. I sometimes take an indirect approach ā I read a lot of questions, answer them...
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Top 5 Ways to Simplify Your SOA
SOA-style solutions can seem complex; however, doing a few easy things can make SOA projects a lot simpler. In this article, I describe the top five ways you can simplify a new SOA project, or bring some more order to an SOA project that has gone astray...
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Believe It Or Else -- SOA is Dead!
The idea that SOA is complex is promoted by those those that benefit from providing complex solutions, usually at great expense and over a long period of time. The fact is SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, is an architectural paradigm ā SOA is not a...
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True Blue?
It was then, as he closed the door behind him for the last time that he realized just how much the relied on it - so much that he was no longer necessary. The term "cloud computing" refers to a deployment and use approach that delivers IT-related computing...
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Oslo: Pipe Dream or Silver Bullet?
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Hello, MacBook Pro
I own(ed) a Dell notebook. Lots of memory, lots of disk space, lots of processing power, and an nVidia graphics card. I bought the Dell notebook last year and it is now slowly dyeing. The display is fuzzy - it comes and goes and, no, it is not the driver...
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Jun 20 2008, 07:47 PM
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Path to Clarity - Via Stupidity?
After many years of reading strictly technical books, magazines, and other articles I am turning my attention to non-technical books and essays. Specifically, great authors like Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I am reading a few books concurrently because, while...
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Commerce Server Will Test Your Patience
I have been working with Commerce Server 2007 for a couple of months now. Like many products, CS is great if you happen to be a user/developer that works with the base/included functionality and are happy with customizing the starter site's appearance...
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Commentary: Services Strategy
In a new paper, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie suggests that Content, Community, Commerce, Search, and Advertising are strategic areas for investment ( download PDF / read online ). The paper, called Services Strategy, is being marketed...
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