Book concerning open source and its licenses, why on should consider it. Especially in conjunction with the quote of 2003 Bill Joy "Innovation happens elsewhere", why open source does matter.
NET2Java a new technology that helps you take an application written in Visual Basic or C# to the .NET platform, and translate it into a program written in Java source code. Right now its available through a NetBeans plugin that's included in the distribution files.
The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative
costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as
2:1, whereas on industry leading, highly automated services, we’ve seen ratios as high as 2,500:1.
Within Microsoft services, Autopilot [1] is often cited as the magic behind the success of the Windows
Live Search team in achieving high system-to-administrator ratios. While auto-administration
is important, the most important factor is actually the service itself. Is the service efficient to automate?
Is it what we refer to more generally as operations-friendly? Services that are operationsfriendly
require little human intervention, and both detect and recover from all but the most obscure
failures without administrative intervention. This paper summarizes the best practices accumulated
over many years in scaling some of the largest services at MSN and Windows Live.
We know it: most people prefer to use pen and paper or a whiteboard to make software mockups because “it’s the fastest way”.
Well, if you count the time it takes to transfer the mockup from paper to a digital image, we think Balsamiq Mockups is faster, not to mention much easier and, dare we say it, more fun!
We optimized the user interface for speed: fewer buttons, more keyboard commands, full undo/redo, object snapping...you name it.