GRC’s | Password Haystacks: How Well Hidden is Your Needle?
Do you use simple passwords in order to remember them? Use this page to realise how dangerous that is. Then use it ti realise how to get an easy to remember but extremely secure password SCHEME so that you can use simple variations on every different site and system. Stay safe & don’t be a victim!
IBM Redbooks | Patterns: Implementing an SOA using an Enterprise Service Bus
IBM Redbooks | Patterns: Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
SOA Patterns – Enterprise Service Bus
“An enterprise service bus represents an environment designed to foster sophisticated interconnectivity between services. It establishes an intermediate layer of processing that can help overcome common problems associated with reliability, scalability, and communications disparity.”
Home – Enterprise Integration Patterns
Collection of useful information describing Enterprise Intergration styles & best practice.
Pentaho (Open Source Business Intelligence Tool)
Available in Community (free) and Enterprise(payware) versions. Java-based (Tomcat & MySQL). Includes Analysis (Mondrian) and ETL/Data Integration (Kettle) modules. Has GUI-based tools for design and execution of dashboards, reports, graphs and transformations. Kettle can also be used separately to transform file and data formats.
“Jash is a DHTML-based window that gives you command-line JavaScript access to the current browser window. With this console you can quickly debug scripts, manipulate the DOM, view the current page’s objects, functions, and variables, execute arbitrary Javascript, enter new CSS (in IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari), and much more.” – A useful tool to execute JavaScript, make live (temporary) CSS changes to a page, discover the page structure, etc. for developers. Written totally in JavaScript so can be used on any platform with any browser. Include in your own pages for debugging or load via a bookmarklet to run on any page.
Waterbear (Visual Programming/Learning Tool)
A visual programming tool ideal for children & adults to learn the basics. No installation needed, everything happens in the browser but unlike some similar tools, you can also see the JavaScript code that is generated if you want to. Put the parts together like a jigsaw. A nice, simple way for anyone to start to control computers.
A visual map and timeline of wars and conflict through history.
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