Archive for April, 2008
GigaSpaces Dashboard Using Hyperic plugin
April 21st, 2008Alexey Kharlamov created a project that implements a Hyperic plugin for GigaSpaces. It is available as an open source project on OpenSpaces.org. Hyperic is open source software for web infrastructure monitoring and management. Among its customers are Hi5 and Contegix….
Google App Engine - what about existing applications?
April 20th, 2008Recently, Google announced Google App Engine, another announcement in the rapidly growing world of cloud computing. The announcement led to an interesting discussion on InfoQ, which included topics such as which applications are appropriate for the cloud and issues of…
Single mirror multiple data-sources
April 15th, 2008As part of my job, I often visit customers of very different needs and application types, but most of them have one thing in common; data, data and more data. Data related challenges are numerous but in this post I’d like to share with you a few alternatives to solving a common scenario; where the [...]
VB Space API Alfa Release
April 12th, 2008An Alfa release of the Space VB API is now available at OpenSpaces.org.
There are a number of changes in this build. Main ones are a new installer, a fix for default value in read and take APIs, and a more comprehensive example and documentation pages.
You can read more about it in the project pages, but one thing I want to specifically mention in my experience with the installer program.
It has been very long since the last time I had to compile an installer program. Actually, it was around 1998, where I created a setup for a university project. It was based on InstallShield, which made the entire process long and painful! This time it was very different. I used a utility called Inno Setup, a very lightweight and simple installer. It took me no more than 10 minutes to create the first run of the setup, and another half an hour or so to customise it with my own specific stuff (making sure GigaSpaces is installed, invoking the example at the end of the setup, etc’), which was also straight forward to do thanks to the detailed help files provided.
Now, surely InstallShield could do everything I needed and much more, but it would have been much harder and a longer process… Kudos to Jordan Russell for the well designed and implemented installer utility!
Enjoy!
-Guy
Speaking at the Virtualization Conference
April 5th, 2008The folks at Syscon’s Virtualization Conference accepted my speaking proposal for the conference (see abstract below). My session is on Monday, June 23, at 6:25 PM. It’s at the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. I will show a live demo of…
