JBoss Woos Commercial App Server Users

JBoss, the open source J2EE server, is making commercial inroads: 

JBoss on Tuesday will boost efforts to lure users of commercial application servers to its open source alternative. The JBoss Migration Program being unveiled features an assessment to define a migration strategy, an implementation program, and a subscription to the JBoss Application Server. The implementation program […]

Invoicing with PayPal

PayPal’s Invoicing service lets you easily send professional business invoices via email. You can:

 Send an invoice for goods or services
 Provide detailed line items by specifying quantity, unit price, item description, shipping details, tax, and currency
 Generate automatically calculated totals
 Simply fill out the invoice, review, and send
 Save up to 10 invoices as templates for future use
 Use […]

Fair Use on Blogging Posts

When ‘reblogging’ or quoting from another site in your blog, how much cut and paste can be considered fair use? These links give informative information on this important topic:

Blog’s Blog | Copy paste : Why and Why not ?
Chat, Copy, Paste, Prison
Copyright.gov FAQs

PHP: Boon or Bane?

PHP remains popular, so much so that vendors are either adding tool support for this language, or fighting against it, touting their alternative wares such as Java or Visual Studio. 

If Java developers are indeed picking-up PHP because - like almost anything else it seems - it is simpler to use than Java, then it will […]

Send SMS Messages using Google & Firefox

Want to send an alert to someone in a meeting when you know they can’t conveniently answer a phone call? Send an SMS message. 
Google Send to Phone for Firefox is an extension that enables you to send short text messages of web page content to your mobile phone. For example, you might text message yourself […]

Disable Flash Popups in FireFox

Just when I was beginning to think my FireFox popup blocker was broken, Pete Bevin pointed out that some clever sites are getting around the Firefox default settings by launching popups from Flash. The good news is you can hack FireFox to prevent these new-fangled popups. To do this:
Fortunately, you can get around it:

Type […]

16 Reasons Managers Can’t Get Employees to Perform

Having trouble with employee productivity? Read this article:

It’s frustrating, isn’t it? You define tasks that you need your subordinate(s) to do, provide them the resources they need, and send them on their way to get it done. You wait. You notice it’s not getting done. You wait some more. It still isn’t getting done. […]

Spirited Away

This very cool mini-app for Mac OS X will help clean up your open windows without you needing to do anything! 
Spirited Away is very simple utility for MacOSX. You just start it up and let it run in the background. Spirited Away checks each running application’s activity, and if an application isn’t active for a […]

Tools to Find Best Domain Names

Looking for a good domain name? Here are some helpful resources:

Dislexicon — Takes common words and adds suffixes and prefixes; great for finding short domain names that look like they could be real words.
JustDropped — Lets you search for recently expired domain names.
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain — […]

On-demand Applications and Scalability

Industry pundits are pondering the scalability limits of enterprise applications delivered on-demand.
Case in point is Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com has had great success in small to medium sized business (93 percent of Salesforce.com customers had fewer than 500 users). But can they scale to 10,000?
… in a May report based on data from 29 Salesforce.com customers, […]