Interesting - and at comments threshold 4, meaninful - discussion on slashdot whether vendors need root access to customer’s equipment/OS. Eventually, it diverges into dumb vendors vs. dumb customers.
At BEA, we don’t actually need root access to the system. In fact, you have to go out of your way to run at port 80 [...]
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Luke Dewavrin is writing about what it takes to get Weblogic use Microsoft Active Directory as an Authentication Provider.
He also mentions couple of issues that people get burned by the first time they use WLS Security Providers architecture.
Specifically, he talks about the need to set JAAS flags to “Sufficient” or “Optional”. Let me reinforce that; [...]
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Doug Kaye is asking how to make his very reputable ITConversations podcast website actually bring in money.
For me, ITConversations is the only podcast that I listen to reliably as I listen for content, not entertainment. Pop!Tech series were absolutely riveting, especially WorldChanging.com and BioMimicry.
So, following is my idea which I was thinking about for a [...]
Very interesting story of what happens when built in defaults have silent limits. In this story, each ADF application modules (whatever they are - WayBackMachine archive) needed a cookie with default configuration. This silently runs into spec limitations.
Fortunately, Weblogic does not generate multiple cookies by default, though you could certainly assign one for each of [...]
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CIO Today noticed microrebooting research paper. While I agree that the paper is very interesting, I think there are some holes in it that were not explored (or at least not explained).
Specifically:
Early in the article, memory leak and resource leaks are named as the problems solved by rebooting.
From what I can see, microrebooting will [...]
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Jeff Mesnil is a developer who had to play ’support’ for a bit. Specifically, he had to read logs produced by others. He immediately discovers a lot of lessons that are not obvious when you only read your own code.
To his list I want to add a couple of things from my own support experience:
Make [...]
A very strong (and quite dark) futuristic look at personalised news and media consolidation (8 minutes). Via Doc Searls. Really worth watching for anybody in the blogosphere.
The idea as such has been covered in Science Fiction before, but the anonymous author of this piece has used the real names and very realistic sounding dates.
After watching [...]
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I wrote about my impressions from Bloggercon’s Overload session before. Now, Tantek (who works for Technorati) details specific technologies that could help to implement the wish list items mentioned.
BlogicBlogger Over and Out
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Rich Salz writes about major problem with WSDL 2.I really hope it gets fixed before BEA decides to implement it. Otherwise, it will be completely unsupportable.
We already have problems with handling the customers bitten by vague specs, but this looks nightmarish.
BlogicBlogger Over and Out
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It was very interesting listening to the Overload session recording from ITConversations.
Unfortunately, there are no transcripts of the recording available. Having to listen to the record second time just to pick up points worth of commenting on is somewhat annoying.
One thing however I do want to say. Robert Scoble was the moderator, due to his [...]