http://www.manishnamdeo.com A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:05:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For a recent edition of the Swiss Computerworld Magazine we listed our Top 10 Performance Problems as we have seen them over the years when working with our clients. I hope this list is enlightening – and I’ve included follow-up links to the blogs to help better understand how to ... http://www.manishnamdeo.com/2010/07/17/top-10-performance-problems-taken-from-zappos-monster-thomson-and-co/ Windows 7 is really different. It has more functionality, a better interface, and, if you keep it configured/managed, much better security than previous Microsoft operating systems. Here is another fact about Windows 7:  It is coming to your enterprise, sooner or later. And, since its functionality/features/security are an improvement over XP and ... http://www.manishnamdeo.com/2010/01/08/enterprise-techies-download-win7-now/ There may be little left for Apple to announce about its purported tablet or iSlate come January 27, a date change since January 26 was noised about. The rumor mill is slowly teasing out all its secrets. The great unveiling, according to the Financial Times, is still supposed to be ... http://www.manishnamdeo.com/2010/01/08/whatever-the-apple-tablet-is-it-apparently-leaks-like-a-sieve/ MySQL creator Monty Widenius’ petition to stop Oracle from getting the MySQL open source database along with Sun Microsystems had collected more than 13,600 signatures on Sunday, the day before Widenius has promised to start circulating the results to “regulators, governmental bodies, parliaments and journalists.” Within the EU, the petition ... http://www.manishnamdeo.com/2010/01/08/%e2%80%98save-mysql-from-oracle%e2%80%99-petition-collects-13600-signatures-so-far/ The latest Java performance tips from around the web, such as "The elements of an array are not volatile, only the array pointer itself is. So defining an array as volatile does not provide you with an array of volatile elements." http://www.manishnamdeo.com/2009/10/14/july-2009-new-java-performance-tips/ For September, GM Canada again sold more vehicles than any competitor in Canada, delivering 23,778 vehicles. Calendar year-to-date, GM continues to be Canada's automotive sales leader. "We are very pleased with the strong retail sales performance of GM's four core brands; Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC with sales of these ... http://www.manishnamdeo.com/2009/10/14/gm-canada-september-2009-sales-results/ Justifying the extra investment for developing a single-purpose service – a service expected to solve only one large business problem - instead of putting the single-purpose logic inside a non-service-oriented application can be challenging. Reuse, the most popular motivation for creating services, will not apply. So where's the business case? ... http://www.manishnamdeo.com/2009/10/14/the-case-for-single-purpose-services/ Unlike most of my blog posts, where I try to describe the easiest possible way to do things, in this posting, I'll instead go over a Java-based custom JSF component that responds to the Ajax tag. The reason being that there simply aren't any examples out there of how ... http://www.manishnamdeo.com/2009/10/14/jsf-2-custom-java-components-and-ajax-behaviors/ It’s been a while since I posted any news JavaFX plug-in for Eclipse, but we’ve been working hard on the following new features: Code assist for syntax keywords, Code assist for system classes, Code assist for attributes of system classes, Code assist for user classes, Code assist for attributes of ... http://www.manishnamdeo.com/2009/10/14/new-version-of-exadel-studio-javafx-plug-in-is-coming%e2%80%a6/ On2 Technologies announced that it has released its new flagship hardware video decoder design, the Hantro(TM) 9190. The 9190 is the tenth generation of the Hantro line of decoders, which are deployed in hundreds of millions of chips worldwide. The 9190 design supports video playback up to full HD (1080p) ... http://www.manishnamdeo.com/2009/10/14/on2-technologies-releases-first-vp6-hardware-video-decoder/