HP’s got a private cloud-in-a-box scheme that it trotted out Monday ahead of VMworld called HP CloudStart that’s supposed to provide the cloud-smitten enterprise that’s hanging back everything it needs to get cloud-borne in a mere 30 days complements of HP’s Cloud Consulting Services, so what it’s gonna cost is anybody’s guess. It’s also promising that the platform will push out into a hybrid environment down the road. HP will sell CloudStart, which is for compute services, in Asia-Pacific and Japan to start, expecting to go global in December.

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Citrix, which claims to be the most widely deployed cloudware around, in part a factor of running both Amazon and Rackspace, is buying six-year-old VMLogix and its LabManager and StageManager products, old hypervisor-agnostic friends that automate virtualization management in private and public clouds. The widgetry will turn up in Citrix’ OpenCloud infrastructure platform, its tarted-up Xen stack, to help it take on VMware management. Terms were not disclosed. Citrix said it would add lifecycle automation so virtual workloads can migrate between production stages with a single mouse click.

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Google has pulled out of JavaOne because Oracle is suing Google claiming that Android infringes on its Sun-inherited Java IP. Google blogged that the lawsuit made it “impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally” though that open source gambit may not play. It probably can’t get its bronze sponsorship money back, only cancel its sessions. Meanwhile, Java’s grumpy creator James Gosling, who couldn’t stomach the jump to Oracle, has run up some “Java. Just Free It. Hold Oracles to their Pledge.” T-shirts for the September 19-23 event – or anywhere they might be useful. See http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-javaone.html.

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Intel is buying Germany’s Infineon Technologies’ profit-struggling wireless baseband chip business for $1.4 billion cash, roughly three times revenues. It’ll give the semi giant a piece of Apple’s ARM-based iPhone business and a position in other Atom-free wireless widgets. ARM is the smartphone king, but presumably Intel is going to try to push Atom over the hump using Infineon though it needs more than that. Intel, which has banged its head against many a wall trying to figure out phones, means to run the operation as a free-standing operation. It sold similar operations like the ARM-based XScale for cheap back in 2006 to focus on its core business, which is now under market pressure.

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Recently, there was an article in EWeek about the various platforms for Rich Internet Application (RIA) development, including Silverlight. It was an interesting article but one thing I found a bit worrisome is the author’s conclusion that Adobe has put...(read more)

Prolog Development Tools (ProDT) is a Prolog Integrated Development Environment (IDE) aiming to be as rich in functionality as the Eclipse's java IDE, giving the developer a single environment where it can control the development from code edition, test execution, debugging, and more...

This project takes advantage of the Eclipse's projects to take advantage of its already existent features and its extensibility.

Since v1.0.0 ProDT supports the following Prolog implementations:
* SWI-Prolog.
* XSB.
* B Prolog.

My mobile contract is expiring soon, so I went online and checked the different mobile companies for their offerings. All of these sites have a page where you get an overview of all the different phone models available. One one page I noticed that the list of phones started with an empty grid – and then – slowly – images appeared and after that some overlay information on the phone itself was added (such as a link on the facebook, msn or skype page of the phone manufacturer). From a time perspective it took about 2 seconds till I saw something on the page, after 4 got to see the empty grid and after 15 seconds everything was loaded. That made me curious about the internals of that page.

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In case you missed it, here's a brief summary of some of the blogs that have been published in the last couple weeks across our blog network.

Under the hood of JIRA Drag and Drop Attachments plugin. Over on the the Developer blog, you can find this great tutorial that describes how to create a setup-less plugin that injects itself into JIRA issue page. Also you'll see how to do a Drag and Drop with modern browsers in a couple of lines. Read more.

JIRA 4.2 coming soon. We published two blog posts on the JIRA blog in the last week or so: Sneak peek at the JIRA 4.2 experience and JIRA 4.2 public beta now available.

Drag and Drop Screenshots into Confluence with Skitch. Do you ever find yourself pasting screenshots into your Confluence pages? Have a read of the Confluence blog to lean some nifty little tip to make the process smooth and easy. Read more.

Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio 1.2 Released. On our Dev Tools blog you can read about the Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio 1.2. This new release focuses on enhancing the Bamboo continuous integration capabilities from within Visual Studio. Read more.

Awards season. Tis' the season for awards. Atlassian won two this week which we announced on our News blog. First, Atlassian was named 2011 Technology Pioneer at World Economic Forum, and then we learned that Atlassian Starter Licenses won an Anthill 100 award.

And these are just some of the fine blog posts you'll find when skimming through our blogs. You won't miss a beat when you subscribe to them all.

For the past two weeks, we’ve been sharing Jeremy Allison’s video interviews from his trip to GUADEC. Today we have a third video where he talks to Lennart Poettering, creator of PulseAudio. Jeremy and Lennart talk about PulseAudio features, how Lennart got started improving audio on the linux desktop, and how to be successful in free software. Enjoy!

Thanks to Fabian Scherschel of Sixgun Productions for operating the camera.

There are certain authors whose books I look forward to reading because they don't just repackage a manual but offer practical real-work examples and advice. One such author is Scott Mitchell. He has revised his previous version of this book to encompass ASP.NET 4 . This book is well written and directed at beginners. If, however, you have the 3.5 version of this book, I would not recommend this version as there is very little new being offered. On the other hand, if you are new to ASP.NET, this book is a great starting-off point to learning the basics of ASP.NET 4.

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Eclipse based IDE for R.

The PFGrid is a fast and flexible SWT-Grid-widget which allows TreeList and Table-mode. The rendering is done by renderer-classes: XPTreeListRenderer, VistaTreeListRenderer and Office2007Renderer can be used out of the box, custom renderers can be implemented easily. The grid can be used as standalone library or as eclipse-plugin.

The goal of plugin is provide an editor where we can review and modify all resource files at once and get a glimpse of the texts in all languages used, allowing discover rapidly, untranslated texts.

JBoss is pleased to publish a comparison of the enterprise messaging market using the JMS API. The results clearly position JBoss HornetQ as the performance leader.



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Oracle is giving students free passes to get into JavaOne (and Oracle Develop). To qualify the student must be at least 18-years-old, enrolled in an accredited non-profit institution during the Fall semester of 2010 and studying at least six units.

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TimeSquare is a software environment for modeling and analyzing timed systems. It supports an implementation of the Time Model introduced in the MARTE UML profile, and its companion Clock Constraint Specification Language (CCSL).

TimeSquare has four main functionalities:

* 1. interactive clock-related specifications, through dialog boxes,
* 2. clock constraint checking,
* 3. generation of a consistent temporal structure, using a Boolean solver,
* 4. displaying and exploring waveforms, written in the IEEE standard VCD format.