I suggest you look at the CQRS pattern. A good Java implementation is http://www.axonframework.org/. The advantage is the CQRS pattern that it is fairly simple, but highly scalable. So you can start small and simple with the confidence that you can tweak and optimise in the future to scale as required. There are good tutorials and support too.
My team is using it for an industrial application and we have found that it has been very robust. It might take a bit of work to get your head around the concepts, but it is worthwhile in the end.
That helps, but in severe conditions, as we are having now, it is still no guarantee.
The problem of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ember_attack after people are evacuated means that even building that are hundreds of meters from the fire can still burn down.
The strategy in NSW is to evacuate if there is any risk to life, so we have the situation where many buildings have been lost but so far no lives.
The guys at http://www.virtualrealitytrainingsystem.com/ have created an interactive 3D simulation to evacuate entire coal mines (and other things). As far as I know, this is the only full 3D 360 degree simulation in the world and it is designed so that a group of 10 or 20 miners can work through detailed simulations with a trainer in their full equipment. I have seen a lot of virtual reality systems, and this is by far the most realistic one that I have seen. The users report that it is more like a coal mine than the concrete mock ups that they also use for training. Disclaimer - I did some work on it!
Ahhh - that is just tooo evil. I can just imagine the worst of both worlds
But worse than that is http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~jbehren/fpx3.html. At attempt to "simplify Fortran source code development with an integrated set of macros, directives and embedded Perl/Fortran. Wow - someone has combined my two least favourite languages in an attempt to make a 'better' one!
If your company has been doing development for 35+ years in multiple projects, there is certainly a body of knowedge and culture of development that has evolved over the life of the company. I doubt that you could just 'come up' with anything better yourself, so I think your goal would be most effectively achieved by collecting and organising the information that you have all about you.
I achieved a similar thing in my company by setting up a wiki (I started with Twiki and then we changed to Confluence) with a basic skeleton that I wanted have fleshed out. I even got our developers to define the skeleton, they all knew what we needed, code guidelines, review methods, development procedures etc. Now all I have to do is spread the word about the existence of the wiki and watch it emerge!
Is it just me, or does everybody get: Oops, we seem to be having a problem with this feed. Please try again later
every time they try to add Linux content to the sidebar? I did a search for Linux and all four feeds that I clicked on failed (including linux.com, which was the first one). I sniff a MS conspiracy!
I thought I had seen these images before. Sure enough, I had. From snopes we get the explanation:
they are genuine images of some rather strange deep-sea creatures, these photographs have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean tsunami. They date from mid-2003 and were taken as part of the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian-New Zealand research expedition conducted in May-June 2003 to explore deep sea habitats and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. These photographs can be viewed on Australia's National Oceans Office web site.
I have yet to read of any Evolutionist making a non-trivial prediction about some future event in the same way that Einstein precticed the bending of light grazing the eclipsed Sun and making a specific star appear to move a specific distance from its normal position relative to nearby stars.
How about this one: I predict that Evolution will product a virus that will defeat your immune system and make you sick some time in the next two years.
Wikipedia is a terrific medium for obscure and specialised information that would not be of interest to a publisher of a traditional encyclopedia.
As and example, my daughter was recently diagnosed with an extremely rare condition called Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome. It only effects about 1 in 10,000,000 people per year, so you can imagine the difficulty we had finding information and medical practitioners who knew anything about it. I searched the Web and found lots of information and other people with the same condition, but it took a long time to find what I wanted and the information was fragmented and often very old, but eventually I knew more that any of the medical specialists we have been seeing. I wanted to share my knowledge, so I build my own web site, played with a blog, but then it hit me, Wikipedia! So created the OMS page and put all of the knowledge I had collected into it. My daughter will get better and we will forget the horrible episode, but the wikipedia page will live and grow and continue to help people long after I stop maintaining it.
This sort of information is only going to be accessed by small number of people, but it will be extremely valueable. Thanks Wikipedia!
Drop bears are nasty animals. They are like a Tasmanian Devil, but they are slightly larger and angrier.
A lot of people laugh about them until they see one take out a kangaroo. You don't want one of these guys dropping on you!
I switched from Outlook to Thunderbird in an attempt to get a more secure email system and found I was very happy with it. Even my wife, who 'just wants to read her mail', managed to change without any significant problems.
I dual boot Win2K and Mandrake, so to make things consistant, I changed my Mandrake email from KMail to Thunderbird as well. The fantastic thing that I discovered after doing this change was that I can use the same data files for both boots! My mail is now consistant however I boot.
So now that my wife and I are using OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Thunderbird, all with common data, it is getting to the point where the OS is disappearing.
As soon as I can get all the plugins to work in Firefox, I can get rid of Windows altogether. Freedom!
Well, a gig of disk space will cost about 50c, and if you spread that over 3 years, that is about 15c per year. I guess that Google's business plan predicts that they can make more than that in advertising. All is all, it sounds feasible (but it is April 1st!)
I would love to see the fine being spend on OSS, but this brings up an interesting conundrum. Microsoft is being fined for giving away software, yet you want to spend the fine on OSS projects who are also giving away software. Hmmmm, my brain hurts.
2 digits? HA, that was rather inefficient, I am using 1 digit. This time in 6 years I plan to be sailing around the world, spending the savings I made on that extra digit.
It has been said that the New Zealand accent only has one vowel, e. Try speaking with only e's and you might find you sound like a New Zealander. Perhaps there is a throw back to the Neanderthals there, it could explain why they are so good at Rugby...
Here is a link to
arkane
I only fiddled with it for a few minutes and I was impressed with the graphics.
Java Web Start made the installation very easy, just a couple of clicks and no mental effort required.
I ran this on a windows machine, I would like to hear from anyone who tried it on Linux. The only thing that stops my moving totally to Linux is the lack of games, so bring on more Java games!
One of the things I love about/. is that spam like this parent gets modded to oblivion. The only reason I ever see this sort of thing is when I have mod points and I take pleasure in helping my fellow/.ers to ignore it.
If this takes off, I can imagine buying these DVD's in the supermarket or anywhere. Anyone could sell them because you would not need to support the whole rental infrastructure.
Glad I don't own a rental store, this could be the end of the business.
Slashdot Mirror
I suggest you look at the CQRS pattern. A good Java implementation is http://www.axonframework.org/. The advantage is the CQRS pattern that it is fairly simple, but highly scalable. So you can start small and simple with the confidence that you can tweak and optimise in the future to scale as required. There are good tutorials and support too. My team is using it for an industrial application and we have found that it has been very robust. It might take a bit of work to get your head around the concepts, but it is worthwhile in the end.
That helps, but in severe conditions, as we are having now, it is still no guarantee. The problem of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ember_attack after people are evacuated means that even building that are hundreds of meters from the fire can still burn down. The strategy in NSW is to evacuate if there is any risk to life, so we have the situation where many buildings have been lost but so far no lives.
The guys at http://www.virtualrealitytrainingsystem.com/ have created an interactive 3D simulation to evacuate entire coal mines (and other things). As far as I know, this is the only full 3D 360 degree simulation in the world and it is designed so that a group of 10 or 20 miners can work through detailed simulations with a trainer in their full equipment. I have seen a lot of virtual reality systems, and this is by far the most realistic one that I have seen. The users report that it is more like a coal mine than the concrete mock ups that they also use for training. Disclaimer - I did some work on it!
Ahhh - that is just tooo evil. I can just imagine the worst of both worlds
But worse than that is http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~jbehren/fpx3.html. At attempt to "simplify Fortran source code development with an integrated set of macros, directives and embedded Perl/Fortran. Wow - someone has combined my two least favourite languages in an attempt to make a 'better' one!
My results for java were:
"written in java": 2,880,000
Not sure how you got 1,750,000...
I achieved a similar thing in my company by setting up a wiki (I started with Twiki and then we changed to Confluence) with a basic skeleton that I wanted have fleshed out. I even got our developers to define the skeleton, they all knew what we needed, code guidelines, review methods, development procedures etc. Now all I have to do is spread the word about the existence of the wiki and watch it emerge!
Is it just me, or does everybody get:
Oops, we seem to be having a problem with this feed. Please try again later
every time they try to add Linux content to the sidebar? I did a search for Linux and all four feeds that I clicked on failed (including linux.com, which was the first one). I sniff a MS conspiracy!
I thought I had seen these images before.
Sure enough, I had. From snopes we get the explanation:
they are genuine images of some rather strange deep-sea creatures, these photographs have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean tsunami. They date from mid-2003 and were taken as part of the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian-New Zealand research expedition conducted in May-June 2003 to explore deep sea habitats and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. These photographs can be viewed on Australia's National Oceans Office web site.
I have yet to read of any Evolutionist making a non-trivial prediction about some future event in the same way that Einstein precticed the bending of light grazing the eclipsed Sun and making a specific star appear to move a specific distance from its normal position relative to nearby stars. How about this one: I predict that Evolution will product a virus that will defeat your immune system and make you sick some time in the next two years.
As and example, my daughter was recently diagnosed with an extremely rare condition called Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome. It only effects about 1 in 10,000,000 people per year, so you can imagine the difficulty we had finding information and medical practitioners who knew anything about it. I searched the Web and found lots of information and other people with the same condition, but it took a long time to find what I wanted and the information was fragmented and often very old, but eventually I knew more that any of the medical specialists we have been seeing. I wanted to share my knowledge, so I build my own web site, played with a blog, but then it hit me, Wikipedia! So created the OMS page and put all of the knowledge I had collected into it. My daughter will get better and we will forget the horrible episode, but the wikipedia page will live and grow and continue to help people long after I stop maintaining it.
This sort of information is only going to be accessed by small number of people, but it will be extremely valueable. Thanks Wikipedia!
Drop bears are nasty animals. They are like a Tasmanian Devil, but they are slightly larger and angrier.
A lot of people laugh about them until they see one take out a kangaroo. You don't want one of these guys dropping on you!
I dual boot Win2K and Mandrake, so to make things consistant, I changed my Mandrake email from KMail to Thunderbird as well. The fantastic thing that I discovered after doing this change was that I can use the same data files for both boots! My mail is now consistant however I boot.
So now that my wife and I are using OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Thunderbird, all with common data, it is getting to the point where the OS is disappearing.
As soon as I can get all the plugins to work in Firefox, I can get rid of Windows altogether. Freedom!
Well, a gig of disk space will cost about 50c, and if you spread that over 3 years, that is about 15c per year. I guess that Google's business plan predicts that they can make more than that in advertising. All is all, it sounds feasible (but it is April 1st!)
I would love to see the fine being spend on OSS, but this brings up an interesting conundrum. Microsoft is being fined for giving away software, yet you want to spend the fine on OSS projects who are also giving away software. Hmmmm, my brain hurts.
If you liked LofR, I recommend a couple of Jackson's earlier works:
Bad Taste
Meet the Feebles
These made me a huge Jackson fan years before LotR!
Great site, keep up the good work!
I don't think America lost many, if any, significant military engagements in Vietnam. They won all the battles, but lost the war.
2 digits? HA, that was rather inefficient, I am using 1 digit. This time in 6 years I plan to be sailing around the world, spending the savings I made on that extra digit.
and we all know: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
The site linked just says:
Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.
Grrrr.
It has been said that the New Zealand accent only has one vowel, e. Try speaking with only e's and you might find you sound like a New Zealander. Perhaps there is a throw back to the Neanderthals there, it could explain why they are so good at Rugby...
Here is a link to arkane I only fiddled with it for a few minutes and I was impressed with the graphics.
Java Web Start made the installation very easy, just a couple of clicks and no mental effort required.
I ran this on a windows machine, I would like to hear from anyone who tried it on Linux. The only thing that stops my moving totally to Linux is the lack of games, so bring on more Java games!
One of the things I love about /. is that spam like this parent gets modded to oblivion. The only reason I ever see this sort of thing is when I have mod points and I take pleasure in helping my fellow /.ers to ignore it.
Check out Eclipse, from IBM. I didn't believe Java was any good for desktop applications until I played with Eclipse.
Glad I don't own a rental store, this could be the end of the business.