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Get ready for a month full of giveaways. From July 9 through the end of the month, InformIT will be having 17 days of giveaways. Each week has a theme to make sure that there’s something YOU will be excited to win!

After the discussion on client configurations betraying your infrastructure choices, my talk with Sim Pul Simon (my corrected spelling) turned to other server examples.

Planning a User Group or community gathering for developers? Community Megaphone, built by Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie aka @devhammer, provides a simple way to share and discover all kinds of events relating to software development.

While exploring Chrome as a browser, I stumbled onto some excellent Browser Password Manager criteria and an online test that helps you assess your browser's security


Learn the proven performance tuning methodology that I used to successfully tune the performance of Enterprise Java environments for companies ranging from small 10-person development teams to large-scale Fortune 500 companies.

Bloomberg reported yesterday that US Regulators approved Oracle's purchase of BEA. What does this mean to you?

As a CNBC reporter stated, "Larry Ellison always gets his way". And it is true, for about $8.5B Oracle is acquiring BEA after last year's attempt failed.

GigaSpace's Nati Shalom posted a blog entry discussing why large-scale Web sites are not written in Java, but rather are written using the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). My questions are (1) is this true and (2) if so, why not Java?
A key tenet of Enterprise Decision Management is the automation of the operational decisions that drive your business. You need to identify operational decisions and automate them; you also need to separate them out from the rest of your applications so that they can be managed and reused. The best way to do this is to design what I call Decision Services - services in your Service Oriented Architecture that automate and manage highly targeted decisions that are part of your organization’s day-to-day operations.

Voice XML opens up new opportunities for integrating voice into service oriented architectures.