Archive for July, 2011


The start up nation taking on Silicon Valley

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July 21, 2011

 

Interesting artcle by Emma Barnett on The Telegraph.

Which country  has the highest number of companies listed on the NASDAQ after America?

Also Mercury, now an HP Company, comes from there….

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8652076/Israel-The-start-up-nation-taking-on-Silicon-Valley.html

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Salesforce is the most innovative company, according to Forbes

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July 20, 2011

… Amazon is the second, Apple is the 5th and Google the 7th

http://www.forbes.com/special-features/innovative-companies.html

 

 

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keyboard shortcut

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July 19, 2011

Wow! Just discovered how to change keyboard layout:

[ALT] + [left SHIFT]

Great!

🙂

 

 

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Places – San Galgano (Italy)

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July 17, 2011

An amazing Gothey abbey in the middle of Italy… the myth of  “The sword in the stone”

http://www.sangalgano.org/ENG/swordinthestone.htm

A great book (in Italian) by Mario Moiraghi describing it: “L’enigma di San Galgano: la spada nella roccia tra storia e mito”

http://books.google.it/books?id=txfYAAAACAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks_r&cad=2

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Readings – Even Faster Web Site

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Even Faster Web Site, by Steve Sounders, O’Reilly Media

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596522315/preview#preview

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The ROI of Social Media – thenextweb.com

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Some interesting case study by The Next Web about calculating ROI on social media posts, mrkt campaigns, ads, … Cisco one is very interesting…

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/07/16/the-roi-of-social-media-10-case-studies/

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Usual suspects … Db bad performance or crapy code?

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July 14, 2011

“AppDynamics: Why is SQL always slow? Appman’s thoughts on a Usual Suspect. http://bit.ly/nZYfpm”  –http://twitter.com/AppDynamics/status/91196904209260544

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A Decade of APM Acquisitions and Evolution

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July 8, 2011

An interesting article about J2EE Code Monitoring/Profiling tools (sometimes called Diagnostics, APM, code inspection, … ) history, evolutions and acquisition… powered by one of the “not-acquired-yet” tool: AppDynamics:

http://www.appdynamics.com/blog/2011/07/07/a-decade-of-apm-acquisitions-and-evolution/

 

 

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Feelings [JRTT Quote]

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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set. [ J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings ]

 

 

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Compuware acquires Dynatrace

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July 6, 2011

Another step in the APM “Risiko” game …

http://www.compuware.com/about/dynatrace.html

 

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