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IBM software architect kit

This complimentary e-kit for IT architects provides a collection of best practices, how-to guides, and materials to help you deliver a stable, reusable architecture, as well as guidance on related IBM tools that promote communication to unify all aspects of design and development.

Explore the benefits of:

  • Reducing software delivery complexity with visual languages
  • Patterns-based development
  • Structural review and control
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Reduce IT complexity with software development tools from IBM

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Rivals Say IBM Stifles Competition to Mainframes

IBM has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in annual revenue from sales, software, services and financing related to the machines. Continue reading at NY Times.

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Getting started with Java EE and Websphere AS

If you need learning JEE ( Java Enterprise Edition) formerly J2EE with Wesphere Aplication Server, I really recommend the sources below:

Redbook – Experience Java EE! Using WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.1
This redbook is a hands-on guide to developing a comprehensive Java™ EE application
using WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition v2.1 (WASCE).
I recommend it who is interesting in developing JEE aplication.
It’s important to know that WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition v2.1 (WASCE) is basead on Apache Geronimo AS.

Redbook – WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User Guide
This redbook takes you through the basics of using WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition V2 to run applications.
I recommend it who is interesting in administration of JEE aplication

Redpaper – WebSphere Application Server V7.0: Technical Overview
This redpaper is discussion centers on the runtime server component of WebSphere Application Server.
I recommend it who is interesting in administring JEE aplication, SysAdmin who is interesting in to know the new WAS v.7.

Redbook – WebSphere Application Server V7: Concepts, Planning and Design
This redbook discusses the concepts, planning, and design of WebSphere® Application
Server V7.0 environments. This book is aimed at IT architects and
consultants who want more information for the planning and designing of
application-serving environments, ranging from small to large, and
complex implementations.

IBM Education Assistant – Introduction to WebSphere Application Server V7
This presentation will provide a high-level of WebSphere Application Server V7.

If you wanna add some sources useful to us, leave a comment, please.

Regards,

Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho

Linux founder Linus Torvalds talks about open-source identity

Linus Torvalds is a regular visitor to Australia in January. He comes out for some sunshine and to attend the annual Linux.conf.au organized by Linux Australia. He took some time out to speak to Rodney Gedda about a host of topics, including point releases, file systems and what it’s like switching to GNOME. He also puts Windows 7 in perspective.

Q&A: Linux founder Linus Torvalds talks about open-source identity

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Ubuntu and its creator

In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.

They came from all over the world, sporting many of the usual signs of software mercenaries: jeans, ponytails, unruly facial hair and bloodshot eyes.

All the fuss at the meeting centered on something called Ubuntu and a man named Mark Shuttleworth, the charismatic 35-year-old billionaire from South Africa who functions as the spiritual and financial leader of this coding clan.

Created just over four years ago, Ubuntu (pronounced oo-BOON-too) has emerged as the fastest-growing and most celebrated version of the Linux operating system, which competes with Windows primarily through its low, low price: $0.

Continue reading A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows on New York Times.

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Java and e-commerce

I was looking for an e-commerce solutions based on Java.

First all I searched on google and I found the article on TechNewsWorld regarding Is E-Commerce Ready for Open Source?.

After that I read about KonaKart: Free Java-based online shopping cart on InfoQ. Thefore so far, KonaKart looks like the best e-commerce solution using java platform or the only one.

If you know any other open source Java solution for e-commerce, leave a comment here.

I will be testing KonaKart soon and I’ll sharing my experience here.

Thanks

Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho

InfoWorld’s guide to following your job overseas

Tech job moving abroad? Offshore yourself with it! InfoWorld’s guide to following your job overseas.

If your job is moving overseas, maybe you should move with it. Many American IT workers have looked with increasing worry as programming and datacenter jobs moved to India, China, Eastern Europe and elsewhere as companies seek cheap labor and Internet connectivity has made offshoring a plausible business option. Or perhaps your job is staying in the U.S., but being handled by an H1-B-visa-holding immigrant or a foreign consultancy such as Tata Consulting Services and Wipro that tends to import its own workers. While some companies have found offshoring to have more costs than savings when management and quality issues are factored in, it’s clear that IT jobs have been globalized and will stay that way… more

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Outsourcing: Is Brazil the nex India?

Brazil’s IT workforce offers the business savvy and technical skills to make offshoring there a worthwhile option for IT’s outsourcing needs.

Whereas India, China, Eastern Europe, and Russia get the most attention when it comes to outsourcing IT work, Brazil is fast becoming a competitive destination, offering top-quality IT talent in an intriguing location, business-wise.

Read the Brazil: IT’s next India?

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FREE videos to learn DB2 Express-C quickly

Learn DB2 Express-C quickly with the DB2 on Campus videos. Use them in conjunction with the FREE online DB2 Express-C book and get solid basic DB2 skills!. The material for the videos, corresponding PDF presentations, and the book is the same: Three different formats of learning, one content!. Note that hands-on exercises (“Quicklabs”) are also included.

Source: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=214455&tstart=0

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DB2 on Campus

Learn DB2 in one day with the help of the videos listed below. Use them in conjunction with the FREE online DB2 Express-C book and start to develop solid basic DB2 skills. The material for the videos, corresponding PDF presentations, and the book is the same: Three different formats of learning, one content. Note that hands-on exercises (“Quicklabs”) are also included with the book.

Download all the videos and corresponding PDF presentations at once (445MB) from here (quick registration required). You can also download individual videos or watch them online by selecting the appropriate link in the tables below (no registration required).

Website: http://channeldb2.ning.com/group/db2oncampus

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