jAPS 2.0 entando Ecosystem | Press Release: Sardinia’s main dairy company uses jAPS Entando and Pentaho to help farmers master their businesses

jAPS 2.0 entando Ecosystem | Press Release: Sardinia’s main dairy company uses jAPS Entando and Pentaho to help farmers master their businesses read more...

How Google+ is built — Tech News and Analysis

If you’re curious about all things Google+, you’re in luck. The project’s technical lead, Google engineer Joseph Smarr, is currently hosting an online question and answer session about the service — and he has already shared a number of details about Google+’s development, technology, and plans for the future. read more

Charting: Categorical Charts and XY-Charts

From Reporting Tales:

"Reporting without charting is like zombies without inevitable hunt for fresh brains. ..."
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Useful Web Apps for Designers

15 Useful Web Apps for Designers | Tools:
There are lots of web apps these days and they are very popular because of time-saving and productivity benefits. Web apps work on almost all platforms and you can access them from any device. You don’t need to install anything ...

Business Intelligence in the heads of people: Configuring Pentaho to use LDAP

Nice Tarallo's video Configuring Pentaho to use LDAP

Latest News for Do It The jAPS Way

Today I wish to suggest you tis last two post from http://japsway.blogspot.com
Showlet Management console http://bit.ly/injtIB

It's time to edit http://bit.ly/kRatKW

Bye

Rinaldo

Couchbase Releases Beta for Mobile Couchbase for iOS

iPhone and iPad developers now have access to the market’s leading NoSQL database technology, and the only one providing native mobile-to-cloud data synchronization
more on noSqlSDtabases

02/05/2011 — Webinar: "Portal Meets Business Intelligence: 3A Latte Arborea, a Case Study about Dairy and Farming in Italy"

Tzente and Pentaho, on 24 th of May at 4:00 p.m. Italian time, organize a Webinar to present the integration between jAPS 2.0 entando platform and Pentaho Business Intelligence entitled "Portal Meets Business Intelligence: 3A Latte Arborea, a Case Study about Dairy and Farming in Italy".

During this webinar, you will see how 3A Latte Arborea, an Italian dairy and farming company, is using an integrated instance of the open source portal jAPS 2.0 entando and Pentaho Business Intelligence to satisfy the entire analytics process of their products, from the producer to the dairy.
The integration between jAPS 2.0 entando and Pentaho allows users to leverage a simple, customizable web interface for information sharing, collaborating, reporting, and charting economic and productivity data. The system processes the collected information and generates key performance indicators (KPIs) that individual companies use to compare with the entire sector.It also highlights areas of positive and negative performance, allowing companies to make faster, more informed decisions .

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Setting up a Hadoop development environment

Hadoop is a platform for performing distributed computing. That's easy enough to understand, right? There are some add-ons for things such as distributed file storage and distributed database access, but at the heart of it, Hadoop is a processing platform that partitions the work across multiple machines in a cluster.
Read this post for setting it up.

LiquidTest for Selenium released

JadeLiquid is proud to announce the addition of native Selenium support in LiquidTest 3.0, the Web Application Testing tool. LiquidTest is the first tool to support the Selenium specification outside the core Selenium implementation. With this clean-room Selenium implementation LiquidTest nowprovides a robust Recording and Replay engine for ... 

Translate SQL to MongoDB MapReduce :: myNoSQL

Translate SQL to MongoDB MapReduce :: myNoSQL

Mikael Ronstrom: MySQL Cluster - NoSQL access with some SQL

Mikael Ronstrom: MySQL Cluster - NoSQL access with some SQL: "As someone noted in a blog, the NDB API is a NoSQL API that was designed 15 years ago."

Developing Community Management Metrics and Tools for Mozilla

Interesting post from alves.ca
read it

The NewSQL Movement - ReadWriteCloud

"This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how IBM helped one client solved its server sprawl problems."

The NewSQL Movement - ReadWriteCloud

Google Page Speed Goes Online and Mobile

Google has made Page Speed available online, enhancing it for analyzing web pages targeted at smartphones.
more on InfoQ

Enterprise Collaboration: Drivers Wanted

Enterprise Collaboration: Drivers Wanted

Enterprise Collaboration: Drivers Wanted

Enterprise Collaboration: Drivers Wanted

Cloud BI and Big Data: The Zenoss Insight Way

Cloud BI and Big Data: The Zenoss Insight Way

DataStax Brisk: Marrying big data tools Hadroop and Apache Cassandra | ZDNet

DataStax Brisk: Marrying big data tools Hadroop and Apache Cassandra | ZDNet

Twitter Adds Geo-Targeting to Promoted Products, Yahoo! Rolls Out Search Direct | Optify

Twitter Adds Geo-Targeting to Promoted Products, Yahoo! Rolls Out Search Direct | Optify

InfoQ: Concurrent and Distributed Applications with Spring

InfoQ: Concurrent and Distributed Applications with Spring

David Syer and Mark Fisher on using Spring to develop concurrent and distributed apps, covering topics such as: asynchronous execution, intra-process, inter-process and inter-JVM communication.

SimpleGeo Debuts Hosted Database for Geolocation Developers

SimpleGeo Debuts Hosted Database for Geolocation Developers

Google gets Snappy over compression

Google has released its Snappy Compression and Decompression library as Apache-licensed open source. Previously referred to as "Zippy", the C++ based Snappy aims for "very high speeds with reasonable compression". This means that it's compression level is only around half that achieved with programs such as zlib
Read the readmefile on google code 

InfoQ: Web vs. Desktop Apps: “Never Bet Against the Open Web”

HTML5 and EcmaScript 5, provide very powerful APIs that blur the line between the Web and the Desktop user experience. This has resulted in more organizations choosing to build their applications using Web technologies, rather than using the traditional Desktop approach. In order to explore the evolution of this trend, InfoQ had an interview with Dylan Schieman, CEO of SitePen and co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit, about the potential of the Web platform.

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PART 1: Learning MongoDb, MongoMapper, and Mustache

PART 1: Learning MongoDb, MongoMapper, and Mustache

Document Collaboration Evolves Into a Complex Powerhouse

From cmswire:

"If ever a topic were complex, it is the evolution of document collaboration. The complexity emanates from the evolution of the document itself. In fact, today when people talk of document management, an initial grounding question should be “define document." Content is perhaps a better word nowadays. Isn’t a web page a document? An email, tweet, instant message, digitzed video, image file, mashup of several content sources? Today, when one speaks of a “document,” the possibilities are limitless."

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Android Linux FUD Debunked | ZDNet

Android Linux FUD Debunked | ZDNet

DataStax Wants To Make Cassandra The Best NoSQL Of Them Al

The NoSQL databases featuring massive scalability developed for and used by the big social networks like Facebook and Twitter have created a whole new category.  Amazingly (or not) most of the competitors in this space are open source projects.  Most of these open source projects also have corporate entities that have sprung up around them to offer support and services. Perhaps the first and one of the better known of these open source NoSQL projects is Cassandra. DataStax is the company that is bringing Cassandra support, products and services to market.
more on networkworld

A great interactive tutorial for MongoDB

From http://www.crystal-asia.com
a nice tutorial to start with  MongoDB

Setting up a Hadoop development environment

From http://www.techrepublic.com
Hadoop is a platform for performing distributed computing. That’s easy enough to understand, right? There are some add-ons for things such as distributed file storage and distributed database access, but at the heart of it, Hadoop is a processing platform that partitions the work across multiple machines in a cluster.
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Is BI Really for Everyone?

Interesting article on blog.technologyevaluation read it 

RainStor 4.5 For Big Data

RainStor has announced the next generation of its online data repository, adding data deduplication capabilities and improved optimization for storing computer-generated historical data. Able to run on a storage area network (SAN) or network-attached storage (NAS) system as a repository for structured data, RainStor 4.5 is aimed at capturing and then serving up online transaction processing (OLTP) data sets, user log data and metadata. Computerworld reports that the software comes with a RDF interface to automatically join data from relational databases to the repository.

Read the Full Story at Computer World

Implementing MapReduce with Akka and Jython

Actor model is usually used for implementations of concurrent systems. A recent representative of concurrent systems is MapReduce. 
Read how Saeki try to  implement MapReduce system using Akka.

Nick Kallen Discusses Scala at Twitter

Nick Kallen from Twitter is interviewed by Randy Shoup about Twitter's use of the Scala programming language. Nick discusses using Scala to build high-performance and scalable network services (including FlockDB), the powerful dualism of Scala which combines the best of object-oriented and functional approaches and also provides his views on the tradeoffs between static and dynamic languages.

InfoQ: Scaling with MongoDB

InfoQ: Scaling with MongoDB
Summary
Roger Bodamer provides advice on scaling out MongoDB using replica sets and auto-sharding, plus tips for database deployment and scaling use cases.

The BPM Chronicles: French local authority discovers the power of BPM through Bonita Open Solution

From Bonitasoft:
"Recently a large local authority in France came to BonitaSoft for help. They needed a better way to log and track requests to repair roads. We provided them with a package that included on-site training and support. This is the newest addition to our ongoing series highlighting customer experiences with Bonita Open Solution.
..."

An interesting interview on Wired with Maria Silvia Libe of Elsag Datamat

An interesting interview on Wired with Maria Silvia Libe of Elsag Datamat, System Integrator partner of the jAPS 2.0 project

To be relational, or not to be relational? That's NOT the question!

A Sergio Bossa and Alex Snaps interesting presentation see it on slideshare

BonitaSoft text To Pdf convertor

a simple demo on how to convert a text file such as txt, sh to PDF forma Contribution

Implementing table quotas in MySQL

Interesting post from The Data Charmer blog

Getting Started with NoSQL :: myNoSQL

Interesting post about NoSql by Alex Popescu Read it

White Paper: Service Virtualization and the DevTest Cloud

iTKO - LISA Virtualization and Validation Software for Modern Applications: SOA, Cloud, BPM & Testing Optimization Solutions

In Exploiting the Data Market, Trust Is Key: Cloud Computing News «

In Exploiting the Data Market, Trust Is Key: Cloud Computing News «

I Don't Want DevOps. I Want NoOps. | Forrester Blogs

I Don't Want DevOps. I Want NoOps. | Forrester Blogs

jAPS2.0 New Case Study

An interesting case study on the new Italian Civil Defence website, designed and developed by Elsag Datamat, System Integrator Partner of jAPS 2.0 project.                                  
Discover more on http://bit.ly/e3p76M

Announcing Bonita Open Solution 5.4

BonitaSoft announce the release 5.4 of his open source bpm product Bonita
From the Bonitasoft web:

Major benefits of this version include:
● Improved modeling usability: It is now possible to create and update even more complex process models with Bonita Studio. Users can easily move in the process diagram (i.e. zoom in and zoom out), move and align blocks of steps, as well as customize the display of diagrams.
● Advanced customization possibilities: Users can now create totally customized forms for their BPM applications (with their own HTML code input, conditional page flow, and form redirection). The Bonita User Experience BPM portal can also be customized to adapt to any organization’s graphical and functional requirements
● Fast and easy deployment: Bonita Open Solution deployment has been streamlined so that it can now be achieved in a few clicks — and in REST mode. Bonita Open Solution is also available in Tomcat and JBoss bundles, allowing fast and hassle-free production deployments.

Read all the news

 

Easy Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) : Setting up Enterprise Private Cloud - Eucalyptus

Hi, today I need to suggest a Tejas Bavishi post:

During many phased of SDLC, there is a need to create hardware and software environments repeatedly to perform development, integration testing, system testing and user acceptance testing. This repeated deployment of hardware and software takes lot of time and eats into the bandwidth of today’s delivery organization to focus on the core responsibility of delivering tested application.Delivery organization also needs to provision and re-provision hardware and software for ever increasing requirements of development and testing in addition to the resources. Also, setting up of separate hardware and software takes time as well as prone to configuration errors. Plus, separate hardware installations consumes space which is at a premium.
Solution:The solution to above mentioned usage pain points is to setup private cloud. Eucalyptus...

Bonita - Using the REST API

Today I updated my LinkedIn profile, I have decided to join the Bonitasoft group (it 's an open source BPM tool, more info go to website).
I finally found this simple tutorial to understand the use of the Bonitasoft REST api.Thanks Ben

Creating Cascade Parameters with Pentaho Report Designer 3.5.

Hi,
Working on the jAPS/Pentaho integration I found  problems such as the use of cascading parameters. I find very useful the following post by Prashant Raju. 
I followed his tutorial and the analysis of the file prtp this allow me to understand how  are structured the files:

• datadefinition.xml, 
• compound-ds.xml,
•  sql-ds.xml
• ...

This allow me to create dynamic forms inside a jAPS showlet(*) and execute  reports.
Thx again Prashant.

(*)A “Showlet” is a pluggable user interface component that displays contents, resources and usable services in a web page.
A showlet engine allows to manage these components in terms of configuration and position in a web page. More info 

OpenBravo installation problem

In these days trying to install from source Openbravo I found a lot of problems due to the fact that my version of ubuntu is 10.10 and therefore postgresql 8.3 was  no longer supported.
The error returned was due to the lack of library-postgresql contrib-8.3 no longer supported.
 Googling I found this link that allows  to do download the library and all its dependencies


postgresql-contrib-8.3



Greetings and Happy New Year to all
Rinaldo