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You’ve got grid!
One of the problems with gaining a wider usage of the grid and extracting more potential CPU cycles and resources out of machines is to make use of those machines that are not permanently connected to your network. For example, laptops and noteboo…
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Build grid applications based on SOA
To the casual observer, you’d think that the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Grids are going in completely different directions. In fact, the two are more similar than people realize. But to make effective use of the technologies that both…
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Understanding WSRM
The Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM) standard is an extension of the web service model to allow secure communication of information between web services clients and servers. By secure, I don’t mean in terms of security or encryption, but ins…
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Understanding Web Services Distributed Management
The Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) standard offers a way for you to publicize and manage machines and web services using web services and associated technologies. If you’re confused by that statement then you probably need to read my n…
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Improved application development: Part 5, Testing and verifying with Rational tools
The fifth and final piece to the Improved Application Development series is now available. This one looks at testing your application before the next phase of development or release. Here’s the abstract: Testing is a vital part of any development …
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Improved application development, Part 4: Building a Web client
Part 4 of the Improved Application Development series, which covers a development from end-to-end using Rational tools is now available. Written by Nate Schutta, it concentrates on extending the application to work on the web, using the powerful f…
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Improved application development, Part 3: Incorporating changes in requirement
The next article in the Improve application development series is now up at the IBM site. This follows on from Part 2, written by Nate Schutta, and moves on to managing the project now that the application is being developed and the you start gett…
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Improved application development: Part 1, Collating requirements for an application
My latest Rational piece is up on the IBM site. This is an update of the series I co-wrote last year on using a suite of Rational tools for your development projects. The latest series focuses on the new Rational Application Developer and Rational…
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Embed Python scripting in C applications
Learn how to embed Python applications into your C applications. This tutorial explains how Python embedding works, shows you how to translate between data types, and provides various methods for embedding Python scripts. You can read the full art…
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Build a GCC-based cross-compiler for Linux
There are times when the platform you’re developing on and the computer you’re developing for don’t match. For example, you might want to build a PowerPC/Linux application from your x86/Linux laptop. Using the gcc, gas, and ld tools from the GNU t…