BMW Financial Services VB6-to-C# Migration Case Study
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In the past, Visual Basic (VB) upgrades were fairly painless and inexpensive because Microsoft made new versions of VB backward compatible, but things are different this time. An upgrade to .NET brings with it a radical shift in terms of architecture, design, deployment, features, and tools. The upgrade will be even more challenging if you decide to move from the forgiving VB compiler to the rigorous C# compiler. Confronted with declining vendor and community support and major migration challenges, BMW Financial Services in Dublin, Ohio set out to define a strategy that would allow us to adopt C# in an efficient and deliberate manner. Our objectives were to minimize disruption and costs and leverage the momentum of the platform change to move our capabilities forward. This article presents our strategy and some of the experiences we are encountering along the way.
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HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade takes world record
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Designed to keep pace with strenuous computing demands, the HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade is equipped with outstanding 4P processing power and expansion capabilities, enterprise-class availability features, and industryleading management tools that make it easy to deploy and maintain.
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HP Integrity rx2660 Server
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The HP Integrity rx2660 Server offers you new levels of entry-class value. It is a cost-effective and versatile platform for your IT environment, which delivers high rack density and performance per watt. With performance and capacity to handle your business-critical application-tier and transaction workloads easily, it is also a platform you can trust for your database, Java™, business intelligence, and technical computing requirements. Available in a rack or pedestal form factor and including a standard threeyear warranty, the Integrity rx2660 Server is built to deliver UNIX® strengths, a solid return on investment, and enterprise-class virtualization, scalability, and availability— regardless of the size of your business.
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F5 and the 8 ways to Virtualization
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F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories. With this paper, F5 discusses how it has implemented these same technologies within its own product line, helping enterprises get closer to achieving their goal of a implementing a complete Virtual Data Center with F5’s Application Delivery Networking products.
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Mashup Mania with Google Maps
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A number of new geospatial viewing tools from major players in the Internet industry have recently appeared on the scene and are taking the geospatial world by storm. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Amazon have all released web-based mapping tools in the recent past, and collectively these new players to the industry have raised the bar for Internet mapping. Although their functional capabilities don’t provide anything we haven’t seen in web offerings from traditional GIS vendors, their emergence has been significant in that they have managed to capture a wider audience. Google, in particular, has emerged as the leader of this pack with it’s recently released Google Maps product which provides a slick, highly responsive visual interface built using AJAX technologies along with detailed street and aerial imagery data, and an open API allowing customization of the map output including the ability to add application specific data to the map.
Website: www.geospatialtraining.com | Filesize: 2815kb
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Mashups in Plone Leveraging Web 2.0
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A mashup is a website or web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated
experience.
l Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a supposed second-generation of Internet-based services - such
as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies - that let people collaborate and share information
online in previously unavailable ways.
Website: www.ragingweb.com | Filesize: 193kb
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An Introduction to Agile Software Development
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Agile software development (also called “agile”) isn’t a set of tools or a single methodology, but a philosophy put to paper in 2001 with an initial 17 signatories. Agile was a significant departure from the heavyweight document-driven software development methodologies—such as waterfall—in general use at the time. While the publication of the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” didn’t start the move to agile methods, which had been going on for some time, it did signal industry acceptance of agile philosophy. A recent survey conducted by Dr. Dobb’s Journal shows 41 percent of development projects have now adopted agile methodology, and agile techniques are being used on 65 percent of such projects.
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