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Fun With Trend Analysis

Chris — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:12:09 +0000

Here’s two trend analysis examples from two different sources that I use regularly.

The first is based on job posting keywords which is useful to gauge how marketable your skill set is or how likely you are to find staff given the skills you require. Here’s a simple example. Go Java!

via: indeed.com

The second is based on search engine requests for given keywords which is useful to gauge interest and popularity of a given framework or api. Here’s a simple example comparing searches for popular Java MVC frameworks.

via: google.com/trends

Cloud Computing at JavaOne 2008

Chris — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:36:21 +0000

I’m excited about the cloud computing related content that was presented at JavaOne this year.

Sun announced a partnership with Amazon to offer OpenSolaris as an operating system choice on their Amazon EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) offering.

There were also two really great technical sessions I attended this year related to Java and Amazon EC2:

Here is some more on the subject matter of these session from the presenters:

These talks also introduced me to these great tools: ElasticFox and JetS3t. More on all this soon I hope!

CommunityOne 2008 - Free!

Chris — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:34:27 +0000

I just wrapped up JavaOne this year, but I flew in too late to catch the second annual CommunityOne Conference on Monday, which is more or less a free one day version of the JavaOne conference.

You can attend general session talks, panels, and technical sessions just like JavaOne but for free!

General session videos are recorded and available online for those who couldn’t attend. Technical sessions are also available online for free as pdfs. Reference my previous post Essential Firefox Add-Ons for a quick way to download all the pdfs in one click using DownThemAll! and Firefox on this link which lists all the sessions.

Find more on JavaOne here soon as I process all of my notes this week!

Country Code TLD Visualization

Chris — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:37:55 +0000

Here’s a really great visualization of the top level domains of the world listed by iso country code and sized by population.

Via: Bytelevel and BoingBoing.

Remote Desktop from PC to Mac

Chris — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:56:32 +0000

Whenever I have a how-to computing question I usually hit up lifehacker. They seem to have the answer to most every question like this one: “What’s the best way to remote control my Mac from my PC?”. Here are some helpful posts on this topic. I’ll let them explain:

Why would I do this? My main development machine is a Windows XP laptop. Sometimes I offload running a PosgreSQL or MySQL database onto my Mac Mini. It’s nice to run these on OS X because I can ssh into the server and interact with the database on the command line like I do on production Linux machines. See: Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks for more on this.

But we don’t need the OS X desktop for this right? Since the Mac mini is already running on my desk, why not do some cross browser testing in safari? Play some music in iTunes? Sync an iPod? You get the idea. Hence the original question.

How do you use your mixed operating system computing environment?