O'Reilly Network -- Open Tools for MySQL Administrators

O'Reilly Network -- Open Tools for MySQL Administrators: "MySQL provides some tools to monitor and troubleshoot a MySQL server, but they don't always suit a MySQL developer or administrator's common needs, or may not work in some scenarios, such as remote or over-the-web monitoring. Fortunately, the MySQL community has created a variety of free tools to fill the gaps. On the other hand, many of these are hard to find via web searches. In fact, web searches can be frustrating because they uncover abandoned or special-purpose, not ready-to-use projects. You could spend hours trying to find tools for monitoring and troubleshooting your MySQL servers. What's a tool-seeker to do?" Read more ...

Drupal with IBM DB2 Express-C

Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site, Part 9: Understanding the database layer: "Drupal with IBM DB2 Express-C

Enabling Drupal to use a database back end other than MySQL or PostgreSQL involves a moderate amount of work. There are two development tasks that must be completed before your database can be used by Drupal. The first task is to generate the initial database schema script. The following files are used to initialize MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, respectively:

* database/database.4.1.mysql
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网民为什么不买你的帐

有的人也许会说，我的网站做大了，功能全了，用户就来了。我看，未必。其实，一个网站做起来，第一批用户的作用是至关重要的。如果告诉我第一批用户就是网 站宣传出来的，我肯定会只给打20分。你必须有一个非常有粘性的吸引网民能够来注册的特点。我们谈的是一个战役，战役开始攻占第一个山头是决定成败的，而 不是和我描述整个战役是否能够成功，那是纸上谈兵，诸葛亮都有过这个点上的投资错误，结果是斩了马谡。

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Enterprise Web Applications. Presentation Layer. Evaluation Resu

Enterprise Web Applications. Presentation Layer. Evaluation Resu: "We specified the requirements for the Open Source Java Web frameworks used in presentation layer of Enterprise Web Applications:

1. Performance.

2. Modal dialogs.

3. Partial page refresh.

4. Component-based and event-driven.

The philosophy should be: a Web application should behave like a desktop application, and it should be developed like a desktop application.

Is it possible to satisfy all those requirements? How much will we have to pay for the convenience and flexibility - with performance loss (which translates into higher hardware cost)?" Read more ...

ObjectLabKit 1.0.1: Date Calculators for Business and Finance

ObjectLabKit 1.0.1: Date Calculators for Business and Finance: "ObjectLab has announced the release of version 1.0.1 of ObjectLab Kit for Java 1.5, available for download via SourceForge or the Maven Central Repository.

The Kit provides Date Calculators and comes in two versions: one based on pure JDK (1.5) and one based on the Joda-time library (1.3+, JDK 1.5). The library is live in a UK & international Bank in the Credit Derivatives department.

The DateCalculator implementation is intended for any business, while the other two interfaces are more specific to the financial industry. The most common function of a lot of banking or business applications is the handling of holidays and weekends; a set of standard rules are implemented to deal with days falling on a holiday. The library concentrates of the date manipulation and calculations.

ObjectLab Kit provides the implementation of three interfaces:

* DateCalculator for all date calculation and handling of weekends or holidays
* PeriodCountCalculator for calculating differences between two dates in days, months or years according to some financial algorithms
* IMMDateCalculator to calculate the International Money Market dates

ObjectLab has used and participated in several open source projects. ObjectLab is also sponsoring QALab, a tool that keeps track over time of the static analysis results from Fin" Read more ...

Disable automatic install of IE 7

IntelliAdmin.com: Disable automatic install of IE 7: "Many administrators are going to be taken by surprise when they find out that IE 7 is going to be installed automatically via Windows Update.

There are considerable changes that could cause many headaches. Most administrators would prefer to decide when IE 7 is deployed on their network.

This is why microsoft has released the IE 7 blocking tool. It can be downloaded from here at Microsoft's website.

Once you download and extract the package you will see that it is a command line tool. You simply call the script with the computer name and" Read more ...

apache+Domino的整合

先前已有透過 apache與 tomcat整合，達到透過 tomcat來存取 domino資料庫，現在透過 google大神找到另一方式來與 domino整合。

以下內容主要是參考此篇：Configuring Apache, PHP, MySQL and Domino for Windows 2000：

若是以Apache為主，要有一 Notes資料庫直接秀在瀏覽器上，便可以用 Proxy module來整合之。透過 mod_proxy.so便可以把 domino導向至 Apache的 port 80。

主要是修改 httpd.conf檔案，幫原本被註解掉的mod_proxy.so、mod_proxy_http.so以及mod_rewrite.so開啟，並增加

ReWriteEngineOn
ReWriteRule ^(.*).nsf http://localhost:81$1.nsf$2

透過此方式，Domino即可透過Apache存取之。

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