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App to App Porting
I often wonder why bright, intelligent software programmers go out of their way to write turgid and lengthy words in documentation, do not make step by step screenshot/slides for Tutorials, and practically force everyone to reinvent the wheel everytime they create a new platform.
Top of my wish list for 2012-
1) Better GUI for APP CREATION-
example-A GUI utility to create chrome apps something similar to Android App creator http://www.appinventorbeta.com/about/
2) Automated Porting or Translation-
An automated appsot app for reading in an iOS app (or iPhone app) and churning out the necessary Android app code. This is similar to translating blogs from one blogging platform to another using Python at http://code.google.com/p/google-blog-converters-appengine/
but the woefully underpowered http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/ currently allows only downloads less than 1 MB, while WordPress itself allows 15 MB export files.
3) Better interaction between cloud and desktop apps
example – (google docs and libre office) or webcams to (google hangouts and google voice /youtube)
Are we there yet? Not appy enough !
The all new Blogging in Blogger
I had given up on Blogspot ever having a makeover in favor of the nice themes at
wordpress, but man, the new CEO at google is really shaking some stuff here.
Check out the nice features for customizing the themes at Blogspot
So how useful is Data.gov anyway
As per official statistics, not many people download data from it .
Why dont they just donate the data and save taxpayers some money
Summary
| Agency/Sub-Agency/Organization | Raw Datasets (high-value) |
Tools (high-value) |
Geodata | Total | Latest Entry | # of times downloaded within the last week* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
TOTAL
|
3,486 (2,163) | 1,071 (393) | 386,429 | 390,986 | 08/24/2011 | 0 |
* These numbers represent the number of times a user has clicked on the “XML” or “CSV” (for example) links in the Raw Data Catalogs to download datasets and user downloads of tools in the Tool Catalog available in these categories.
But apparently lots of people like it still
http://www.data.gov/metric/visitorstats/monthlyredirecttrend
More list of public data repositories-
Google http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
DataMob http://datamob.org/datasets
Amazon http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/
DataMarket http://datamarket.com/
Infochimps http://www.infochimps.com/
From SEC, the Edgar http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html
More lists of lists
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2011/02/free-public-datasets.html
But who gets more downloads last week than Data.gov !
Google Cloud Connect
Interestingly a Google Plugin to share Microsoft Office on the Cloud.
Google Cloud Connect is a plug-in for Microsoft Office® 2003, 2007, and 2010 that lets you share and edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents simultaneously with other people in your organization. You get the collaboration benefits of Google Docs, while still using Microsoft Office.
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office brings collaborative multi-person editing to the familiar Microsoft® Office experience. You can share, backup, and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel® documents with coworkers.
Watch the videos below to learn how Google Cloud Connect teaches your old docs new tricks.
Learn how Cloud Connect helped Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca (English only)
Help and information for users
Help and information for administrators
Requirements:
- Windows XP with .NET Framework 2.0, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
- Microsoft Office 2003, Office 2007, or Office 2010
Interview Mike Boyarski Jaspersoft
Here is an interview with Mike Boyarski , Director Product Marketing at Jaspersoft
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the largest BI community with over 14 million downloads, nearly 230,000 registered members, representing over 175,000 production deployments, 14,000 customers, across 100 countries.
Ajay- Describe your career in science from Biology to marketing great software.
Mike- I studied Biology with the assumption I’d pursue a career in medicine. It took about 2 weeks during an internship at a Los Angeles hospital to determine I should do something else. I enjoyed learning about life science, but the whole health care environment was not for me. I was initially introduced to enterprise-level software while at Applied Materials within their Microcontamination group. I was able to assist with an internal application used to collect contamination data. I later joined Oracle to work on an Oracle Forms application used to automate the production of software kits (back when documentation and CDs had to be physically shipped to recognize revenue). This gave me hands on experience with Oracle 7, web application servers, and the software development process.
I then transitioned to product management for various products including application servers, software appliances, and Oracle’s first generation SaaS based software infrastructure. In 2006, with the Siebel and PeopleSoft acquisitions underway, I moved on to Ingres to help re-invigorate their solid yet antiquated technology. This introduced me to commercial open source software and the broader Business Intelligence market. From Ingres I joined Jaspersoft, one of the first and most popular open source Business Intelligence vendors, serving as head of product marketing since mid 2009.
Ajay- Describe some of the new features in Jaspersoft 4.1 that help differentiate it from the rest of the crowd. What are the exciting product features we can expect from Jaspersoft down the next couple of years.
Mike- Jaspersoft 4.1 was an exciting release for our customers because we were able to extend the latest UI advancements in our ad hoc report designer to the data analysis environment. Now customers can use a unified intuitive web-based interface to perform several powerful and interactive analytic functions across any data source, whether its relational, non-relational, or a Big Data source.
The reality is that most (roughly 70%) of todays BI adoption is in the form of reports and dashboards. These tools are used to drive and measure an organizations business, however, data analysis presents the most strategic opportunity for companies because it can identify new opportunities, efficiencies, and competitive differentiation. As more data comes online, the difference between those companies that are successful and those that are not will likely be attributed to their ability to harness data analysis techniques to drive and improve business performance. Thus, with Jaspersoft 4.1, and our improved ad hoc reporting and analysis UI we can effectively address a broader set of BI requirements for organizations of all sizes.
Ajay- What do you think is a good metric to measure influence of an open source software product – is it revenue or is it number of downloads or number of users. How does Jaspersoft do by these counts.
Mike- History has shown that open source software is successful as a “bottoms up” disrupter within IT or the developer market. Today, many new software projects and startup ventures are birthed on open source software, often initiated with little to no budget. As the organization achieves success with a particular project, the next initiative tends to be larger and more strategic, often displacing what was historically solved with a proprietary solution. These larger deployments strengthen the technology over time.
Thus, the more proven and battle tested an open source solution is, often measured via downloads, deployments, community size, and community activity, usually equates to its long term success. Linux, Tomcat, and MySQL have plenty of statistics to model this lifecycle. This model is no different for open source BI.
The success to date of Jaspersoft is directly tied to its solid proven technology and the vibrancy of the community. We proudly and openly claim to have the largest BI community with over 14 million downloads, nearly 230,000 registered members, representing over 175,000 production deployments, 14,000 customers, across 100 countries. Every day, 30,000 developers are using Jaspersoft to build BI applications. Behind Excel, its hard to imagine a more widely used BI tool in the market. Jaspersoft could not reach these kind of numbers with crippled or poorly architected software.
Ajay- What are your plans for leveraging cloud computing, mobile and tablet platforms and for making Jaspersoft more easy and global to use.
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Tools for Hackers:Beginners
How to disguise your IP Address from your most wonderful glorious leaders-
From
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
Tor Browser Bundle
The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.
The Tor Browser Bundle lets you use Tor on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux without needing to install any software. It can run off a USB flash drive, comes with a pre-configured web browser, and is self-contained. The Tor IM Browser Bundleadditionally allows instant messaging and chat over Tor. If you would prefer to use your existing web browser, install Tor permanently, or if you don’t use Windows, see the other ways to download Tor.
Freedom House has produced a video on how to find and use the Tor Browser Bundle. If you don’t see a video below, view it at Youtube . Know of a better video or one translated into your language? Let us know!
and if you now want to see or check your own website for a Denial of Service attack , download this
http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/
This is the software for which 32 Turkish teenagers got arrested for bringing down their govt websites. Do NOT USE it for ILLEGAL purposes,
because 1) it is hosted on a western website that due to Patriot Act would tracking downloads as well as most likely be inserting some logging code into your computer (especially if you are still on Windows)
2) Turkey being a NATO member got rather immediate notice of this – which makes it very likely that this tool is compromised in the Western Hemisphere. You can probably use this in Eastern Hemisphere country excluding Israel, Turkey, China, India ,Korea or Japan because these countries do have sophisticated hackers working for the government as well.
3) This is just a beginners tool to understand how flooding a website with requests work.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/files/
Basically download, unzip the file
Enter URL and click Lock on to know IP address.
use HTTP Method. Make say 1000 threads.
Then press the IMMA CHARGING MY LAZER big button.
Note the Failed Tab tells you how good or bad this method is.
Note – it wont work on my blogs hosted on wordpress.com- but then those blogs had a root level breach some time back. It did work on both my blogspot and my tumblr blogs, and it completely shattered my son’s self hosted wordpress blog (see below)
DECISION STATS 