Freak of Nature - Luis Lobo Borobia

Please, first read “Workflow software: I’m calling the bluff.”
Now that I have your attention back, please follow me til the end.
First of all, lets get one thing clear. Biztalk is not a Workflow solution, nor a Workflow Server. Just an orchestrator of components, that allow you to transform the information in a somehow “easy” way […]

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For the ones that are still developing in VB6, there are some Add Ins I could not work without.
One of them is MzTools. I use it for several things but most of the times, for finding who calls a procedure, autonumbering the source code, finding between projects, replacing intelligently, statistics analysis, and more.
Check it out […]

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Microsoft anuncia que compra FAST, uno de los motores de búsqueda en tiempo real y soluciones de busines intelligence, que seguramente sea integrado a Sharepoint.
Mientras tanto, hoy EMC anuncia que se integrará con Autonomy,  movimiento que se ve claramente relacionado a la compra por parte de Microsoft.
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Microsoft announces that will acquire FAST, one of the […]

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Sun va a comprar MySQL, por un billon de dólares.
De esta manera se posiciona de una manera importante como un proveedor importante de base de datos, convirtiendose en la “M” de LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Php).
Es una movida muy interesante por parte de Sun, quién se está transformando en un gran proveedor de software open […]

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Esto significa que los Application Servers que usamos tanto para Documentum como para FileNet P8, ahora pertenece a Oracle.
Oracle en sí ya tiene 2 applications servers, Bea también tiene 2 application servers.
Veremos con el tiempo que Application Server queda finalmente, cual es absorbido, cual es eliminado.
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This means that the Application Servers we use for both […]

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I have been trying to investigate the different ways to develop web applications.
I have been a programmer on VB6 since 12 years ago, I have developed my own web site when the internet first appeared, so I have the HTML, imaging, and basic background for web development. I have also done some ASP, and some […]

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Ha salido la nueva versión del Editor de Desarrollo Integrado NetBeans 6.0 , el cual incluye las siguientes características:

La infraestructura del editor fue reescrita de cero
Soporte para lenguajes adicionales
Nuevas características de productividad
Un proceso de instalación simplificado que te permite configurar exactamente lo que necesitas
Editor de Ruby
Administrador de PlugIns mejorado
Sistema de Proyectos estándar mejorado: los […]

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Ian Kaplan, on his web page, talkes about Software and Documentation.
In the introduction, he cites Ellen Ullman (the author of the book, Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents, City Lights Books, 189 pp), and I will too:
” used to pass by a large computer system with the feeling that it represented the summed-up […]

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I have learned how to assign a favicon to this web page.
I thought it would suffice to put a favicon.ico in the root of my webpage, but I had to add this two lines to the header of the pages:
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://example.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/vnd.microsoft.icon”>
<link rel=”icon” href=”http://example.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/vnd.microsoft.icon”>

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James McGovern, in his article “Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight…: Proprietary ECM“, and others are Discussing about standards in the ECM Industry, specifically on SAML.
There´s an open question on how people handle this situation, where everyone has its own security model.
We, at LP & Asociados, have been working since 1991 on the ECM industry, […]

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