2007’s Top 10 Underreported Tech Stories
January 1, 2008

 

Story 1: Java is becoming the new Cobol

                – Java is losing ground to Ruby on Rails, PHP, and other cool new languages when it comes to rich internet applications, that is in favor of the most developers.

Story 2: Sun Microsystems is back in the game

               – Sun Microsystems is struggle to keep the company’s name on the buy lists of enterprise IT shoppers

Story 3: Hackers take aim at Mac OS X

                  – The days when you can assume that Apple’s products are exempt from harm are over.

Story 4: There are some threats you can worry less about

                  – Spammers have dialed back their use of so-called image spam, which tricks filters by embedding text within an attached image.

Story 5: Companies may have found a way around H-1B visa limits

               – Despite the H-1B visa limit of 65,000, the real total of visas issued to highly skilled workers is closer to 400,000 annually, according to the feds. That, say some critics, may mean that the law is being abused.

Story 6: Open source’s new commercial strategy

               – Open source companies have been steadily integrating parts of the hated commercial software subscription model into their business.

Story 7: End-to-end Ethernet finally arrives

               – Telcos and cable companies that already have fiber in the ground are offering end-to-end Ethernet also known as metro Ethernet services.

Story 8: Blade servers arrive for the masses

               – a new generation of blades is actually designed for smaller businesses, who typically don’t have sophisticated datacenters for their blades.

Story 9: BI is dead; long live BI

              – With three of the largest competitors in the field taken over by software giants, you’d think that the best days of the business intelligence market were over. You’d be wrong.

Story 10: Balance of power shifts to software buyers

               – Despite the wave of consolidation sweeping the industry, buyers have actually gained more leverage than ever when it comes to making deals with their vendors, notes a PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis.  
 


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Data Mining
December 21, 2007

Data Mining is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information – information that can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both.

For more understanding. see this illustration:

 


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slot machine
December 6, 2007

 

I went to the mall this day and went at the casino games. I curiously want to try the slot game and fortunately, I almost won the jackpot. After that, I am bothered on how to won that jackpot. When I arrived home, my mind still was on that Slot machine. I got an idea of playing it online. I found it in Sloterix. There are plenty of slot machines, and anyone can play slots. After browsing I finally found the right slot machine I can plated with. So, I tested it and got addicted to it. I hope you too will try it! It is a great game.


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Adobe Flex @ Fwendz Diner
November 1, 2007

I celebrated the Halloween with my Fwendz friends at Fwendz Diner and eavesdrops to Sir Chris and Sir Ted Padova (actually my first time to see him) about the Adobe Flex . And we are so excited to try it. And here’s our pic (from Jasper) celebrating the halloween:

And here is Mr. Ted Padova talks about Adobe Air

 

Using Master Dennes (kasuko lang kuya because of the word "Master") MAC notebook, trying the Adobe Flex

 

Im with Potpot I mean Jasper.. hehehe.. I am using his Ferari laptop, (men! naka gunit na jud ko! ahahaha)

 

 When I ‘m not yet there… hehehe… (from left: Timothy "moy" Te, Migs, Kuya Dens Friend, Dennes Abing, then the kid there, si Sky son of Sir Chris and that guy with a  violet shirt, He is Aaron, the PSITS V-Pres External)

 

Santa Claus is coming to Town!

 

And that explains everything

 

more pics by: Jasper F. 


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Dreadful error
September 30, 2007

I realized that Coldfusion is not really a great scripting language, although it’s free, oh! Not free but you can illegally own a pirated copy on it but in installing it’s not! Since my Drive C was reformat cause someone deposit a virus or a spyware on my Drive C, my YM sending viruses all my YM contacts, and it is totally disturbing, and I hate virus so I right away  reformat , of course I  backed up our projects, put it on the Drive D, and the database, bahal na uy! Usbon na lang nako.

Okie then, I use Windows XP SP 1, para gamay lang, I installed my Coldfusion, connect in to my SQL server 2000, and the connection was successful, so my internet technology project is okay na! But then, when I started to install my C#, it won’t, I forgot that the software requires SP2 + OS. So, I upgrade it into SP2, so successfully installed my c#, okay so okay na! But unfortunately, when I tested again my Coldfusion website, it won’t connect to the database anymore, and the error said:

 

Connection verification failed for data source: data
[]java.sql.SQLException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Cannot open database requested in login ‘new database_Data’. Login fails.
The root cause was that: java.sql.SQLException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Cannot open database requested in login ‘new database_Data’. Login fails.

 

 So I got pissed off!

But thanks to google, the connection goes back. Hey If you experienced problem like this or same error like mine, here’s the thing:

 

The problem is Windows XP SP2. It enables the firewall, so I have no idea where the firewall is is so that I can disabled it, if possible. But there’s another procedure for the connection, the work around is to route your CF Admin Datasource connection through an MS ODBC socket, whatever that is. Here is how in more detail than the other threads have:

 

1) First go to Control Panel / Admin Tools / Data Sources (ODBC) and under

the System DSN tab add a new data source. Choose whatever name you like such

as mycompanyODBC, whatever description you like, and then choose an active

DB server on your system that you want to point to.

 

2) For authentication choose whichever you want but Windows NT is easiest

because that is your computer login.

 

3) Select your database that you want to address with CF then finish the

wizard.

 

4) In CF Admin Data Sources pick a data source name that makes sense to you,

such as mycompany_db, then choose ODBC Socket for the driver instead of

MySQL, SQL Server, or whatever.

 

5) The ODBC DSN should be the one you chose above in step 1, the user name

is system and no PW unless you want something more secure. Click Submit and

it should verify.

 

Hint: To save trouble when uploading your CF CFC or CFML page to the host

server you should choose the same datasource name on both the development

and the production (hosting) server. Your code shouldn’t have to know about

this work around.

 

Then, I am happy..:)

 

Here is the picture:

 


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