First the positive words:
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a great way to dig into data-management, partitioning, and serious considerations about your datamodel. You should always do ILM, in one form or another.
However …. ,
The term is now being hijacked by the Marketing Departments of Storage- System-, Database-, application-, ETL-, and just about any other FUD-touting [...]

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Usergroups are Important.
Product-vendors will tell you how to save money by spending it on (testing of) their products.
Consultancy-vendors will tell you how to save money by hiring (and training) their rookies.
Both of them will create Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt and tell you it is imperative you spend more money on them. Now.
(eehm: User groups will [...]

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Sun likes to call them ‘integrated rich clients’, a nice buzz word for reinventing user experience. Yesterday I visited two rich client related sessions. One about GWT, wich was more or less a copy of last years session, and one about JavaFX (formerly known as F3, nowadays already abbreviated to the better sounding JFX). Chris [...]

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After visiting Neil Ford’s excellent and inspiring presentation about domain specific languages, I was wondering if a DSL is actually nothing but a kind of computer instruction slang?
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JavaOne 2007 is only just one day on its way, the first couple of 81 hours have been past, and my maximum information observing level has been reached already: Too much to check out the coming weeks. Too many high impact announcements. Too many cool new technologies, too many new tools and too many new [...]

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Hi all,
Vincent Partington from Xebia has been blogging about J2EE performance problems he and his colleagues have encountered.
They have compiled a top 10 list. It is a very interesting read, as it is all very recognizable
See http://blog.xebia.com/2007/04/30/ejapp-top-10-countdown-wrap-up/
(and TheServerSide.com as that is where I stumbled across the link to Vincents blogposts)
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