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23.07.2010 11:46
In VYRE Unify core development team, we use a lot of Spring. We use it for the injection of our beans, as a framework for our custom portlets and so on. We wrap our data objects (DAOs) into Spring beans and integrate them with Hibernate.
20.07.2010 11:06
As part of my remit at VYRE I often meet managers and directors of in-house creative service teams, and it's interesting to compare the challenges they face with those of external organisations i.e. advertising and design agencies.
06.07.2010 12:34
There's a plethora of applications out there that will give you the tools to create a professional looking set of wireframes to share with your clients and stakeholders during the design of a website. However I've recently been drawn to the concept of going 'lo-fi'.
29.06.2010 12:44
Software testing plays a major role in the software industry with more and more organizations understanding its part in producing quality software. As the number of business requirements increase, there is an increased pressure to deliver software products with fewer resources in less time and of higher quality. Maintaining high quality demands extensive software testing before product releases, and testing on various supported platforms and scenarios to ensure that the product performs well...
23.06.2010 13:49
Chances are you've probably had some experience with CMS workflow; whether it be planning the stages, actions and logic; or implementing and coding these processes; or just simply clicking pretty buttons that say "Approve" or "Send for Review". Workflow is the core to any CMS and so planning one can be a very daunting dilemma...
22.06.2010 17:36
Client centric models, as stated earlier, concerns itself with the client view of the data returned so relaxes the recommendations that the system view of the system be consistent. Models put forward are monotonic reads, monotonic writes, read your writes and writes follow reads. These can fall into the category of causal or eventual consistency with regards to the way the state of the system wide view of the data is maintained before and after operations. These models can be summed up succinctly in single sentences and are as follows...
16.06.2010 11:27
This week we continue with a look at data centric models. The strong or sometimes called strict consistency model specifies that any write operation on a data item would need to be finalised on that replica and then propagated throughout all the other replicas before any further read could take place on that data item. This guarantees that any read on the data item will return the most recent write and that the these reads will be seen in the order in which the operations were carried out...
09.06.2010 14:54
The subject of consistency in distributed systems is a broad and intricate subject that has great importance in the operation and implementation of large scale distributed systems. One of the characteristics of a distributed system is the idea that the system should be transparent.
08.06.2010 17:05
As some of you may know, I am a keen cyclist. I cycle to work every day, and I cycle during work, for example when visiting clients, or going to our data-centres, but I mainly cycle in my spare time. While cycling wouldn't automatically be associated with technology, the rise of the internet and other technologies such as GPS & 3G, especially in the last few years, has radically changed how I view my bike, the time I spend on it, and around it.
01.06.2010 15:56
In last week's blog, we covered four of Lucene's search syntaxes, Fuzzy Searches, Wildcard Searches, Field Searches and Single Term Searches. In this concluding part another four of its syntaxes will be demonstrated.
