Web Concepts

Hearings about that Google prepares for on-line storehouse of data have again emerged on a surface: this time authoritative edition Wall Street Journal has informed referring to not specified ” authentic sources “, that Google plans to give to users an opportunity to store on servers of the company as a matter of fact the information which for today usually hold on own hard drives, - whether it be briefs, photos, music, video, etc. That access to the necessary data can be received from any computer or the mobile device.

Exact terms of start of service GDrive while are unknown: ” the persons familiar with a question “, under statement Wall Street Journal, assume, that it happens in some months. At service will be both free-of-charge, and paid versions, - the second, naturally, with more ample opportunities.

It is necessary to note, that Google starts service of a data storage in online after many competitors: service AOL Xdrive for today offers clients 5 GB disk space for a data storage in online free of charge, and for 10 dollars a month - 50 more GB. Apple iDisk offers 10-GB “increase” to a local hard disk within the limits of service .Mac (the user’s payment for use of this service makes 99 dollars a year); beta-version Microsoft SkyDrive offers 1 GB free of charge (the paid version while is not present), - and in the near future will offer 500 more mbyte for storage of office documentation within the limits of service Office Live Workspaces.

That can offer Google, is not clear yet though as fairly notices Wall Street Journal, the company already offers, through various services, decent enough space for a data storage in the Network: for example, the size of box Gmail at present makes 5295 MB, and to users Picasa is accessible 1 GB to storage of photos free of charge, for 20 dollars a year it is possible to rent 10 more GB, and for 500 dollars a year - 400 GB. Most likely, Google plans to unite all the storehouses of the user data in a single whole.

The quantity of sites on the Internet has come nearer to 150 million. According to analytical company Netcraft from the beginning of theis year became more on 40 million, and for last month it has been created 7 million more sites.

The overwhelming majority of the new sites which have appeared in it to year are blogs which number most quickly grows on thematic hostings and in social networks, such as Live Spaces, Blogger and MySpace. However, in October growth of number of new sites occured basically due to registration of new domains at traditional a hosting-providers.

On a background of the tendency of a gain of new sites in a blogospgere leading position borrows Microsoft IIS which use it in particular MySpace and Live Spaces. However the leader of the market still there is its main competitor Apache which share in October has grown for 1 percent. Now Apache borrows 47 % of the market - for 10 percent more, than Microsoft IIS. According to the report, from the beginning of October the quantity of the sites working on the basis of Apache has increased for 3,03 %, and number of the sites using web-server Microsoft, was reduced to 1,29 %

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Employees of company Devil Mountain Software had time to test the third service-pack for operational system Windows XP, and they approve that it essentially raises speed of work of some applications.

Into structure of the third package of updatings for Windows ХР enter over thousand corrections. Nearby 115 from them are called to solve the various problems connected with safety of a program platform. The remained corrections are intended for increase of productivity, stability of work of OS and so forth.

As employees Devil Mountain Software mark after installation of a package of updatings speed of work of office applications increases approximately on 10 %. Company Devil Mountain Software carried out the test of productivity OfficeBench on notebook with Microsoft Office 2007 equipped by processor Intel with frequency of 2 GHz and 1 GB of operative memory. It is remarkable that earlier on the same notebook company Devil Mountain Software tested the first service-pack for Windows Vista. Thus employees of the company have drawn a conclusion that Windows Vista with a package of updatings original updating of a program platform works not more quickly.

Now in testing the third service-pack for Windows ХР take part about 15 thousand users. Corporation Microsoft has planned release of the final version of a package of updatings for the first quarter of next year. Approximately during same time should appear and the first service-pack for operational system Windows Vista.

The company comScore has promulgated results of the analysis of the American market of search systems in October of this year.

According to statistics comScore the last month inhabitants of the United States have made in total 10,5 billion search inquiries. It on 11,8 % above a similar parameter for September when Americans have addressed for the help to the Internet-search engines of 9,4 billion times.

Company Google continues to strengthen the leadership in the market of search systems. In October on share Google 58,5 % from total amount of a corresponding segment had. For a month market share Google has grown on 1,5 %. And here being on the second place with a parameter in 22,9 % company Yahoo for a month, on the contrary, has lost 0,8 %. Closes a three of leaders Microsoft on which share the last month 9,7 % from total amount of the American market of search systems had. It on 0,6 % less than similar parameter Microsoft for September. The fourth and fifth places with parameters in 4,7 % and 4,2 % keep Ask Network and Time Warner Network, accordingly. For a month market shares of these companies practically have not changed.

In numerical expression company Google has processed 6,2 billion the search inquiries made by Americans in October. For Yahoo and Microsoft the given parameter makes, accordingly, 2,4 billion and 1,0 billion inquiries.

By the way recently little-known American company Jarg has submitted the claim against Google having accused the search giant in illegal use of the patented technology. It is a question of the patent behind number 5,694,593 from 1997 in which the description of a technique of search and extraction of the information from the greater distributed databases contains. Jarg demands from Google payment of indemnification which size is not specified.

“How can an agile development process get supported by a team collaboration platform? This is a question that I get to hear quite often. To answer this question, we first have to inspect what is expected of an agile software development process and what is a team collaboration platform.

A group of software developers has created the concept of agile software development. In an agile software development project, the unbureaucratic collaboration between developers and users is the central issue. The highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Changing requirements are welcome, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
Many different methods were introduced to put this ideal process to work. Examples are Scrum and eXtreme programming.

Team collaboration platforms, like Codebeamer, support the agile process by creating communication processes that are open and unbureaucratic.

Agile projects are entitled to go with as little formal specification as possible. Overemphasizing bureaucracy always is an expression of mistrust, misuse of control and abuse of power. It shows weak leadership by the responsible managers. Before incorporating agile methods, it is necessary to get to know the principles of strong leadership. Special models and processes for agile software development are used to support good management techniques.

A team collaboration platform is a piece of software to manage the communication needs of a team. In a software development team there are special requirements to be fulfilled. The system must be able to handle trackers, like bug trackers, administer forums, integrate source code control and handle documentation. It is implemented to support qualified leadership by incorporating agile processes. When a team uses a collaboration platform in a disciplined fashion to report bugs, share knowledge and communicate, transparency is created for the project.”

Source: http://www.jroller.com/Turmalix/entry/how_does_collaboration_platforms_support

New Apple Mac OS X Leopard is a leader in Japan by selling copies. Last month Mac OS considered to have 53,9% of OS market in Japan.

During from November the 6th till November the 12th share Mac OS X Leopard in total amount of retails of operational systems in Japan made 47,9 %. The second place on popularity at the Japanese users program platform Windows XP Home with the second borrows service-pack - 10,5 % from a total sales volume. On share Windows Vista Home Premium last week 4,5 % from the general number of spears of the sold operational systems had.

It is necessary to notice, that together with client version Mac OS X Leopard company Apple has released a server updating a program platform. And if earlier in the license on Mac OS X Server (for example, on version Tiger) it has been specified, that on one computer it is possible to use one copy of operational system in the license for version Mac OS X Server Leopard it is spoken, that on one server use at once several spears of a program platform is supposed. It means, that company Apple has resolved application of means виртуализации on computers from new OS.

The same resource can be necessary in one appication some times: at creation of navigation under the application, for display in various sites within the limits of one project, for giving integrity (for example, using the same file of a font), and still it is a lot of for what. Using silverlight object ‘ downloader ‘ it is possible to force to take your application already downloaded files, but necessary again from a cache of a browser. It saves the traffic of users and reduces loading on a server. We shall consider a small example. We shall add to standard JS to a file created automatically, a global variable cached_downloader (it is important, as at use by local change, cached_downloader it is destroyed after performance of function and caching does not occur) and we shall appoint its initialization on event onLoad a plug-in. In this case object for uploading is the file of a font which then is appointed TextBox’у in function handleDLComplete.

var cached_downloader;
var slControl;
function createSilverlight()
{

Silverlight.createObjectEx({
source: “Page.xaml”,
parentElement: document.getElementById(“SilverlightControlHost”),
id: “SilverlightControl”,
properties: {
width: “100%”,
height: “100%”,
version: “1.0″
},
events: {
onLoad: handleLoad
}
});
}

if (!window.Silverlight)
window.Silverlight = {};

Silverlight.createDelegate = function(instance, method) {
return function() {
return method.apply(instance, arguments);
}
}
function handleLoad(control, userContext, sender)
{
slControl=control;
cached_downloader = control.createObject(“downloader”);
cached_downloader.addEventListener(“completed”,
“handleDLComplete”);
cached_downloader.open(“GET”,“myfont.ttf”);
cached_downloader.send();

}

function handleDLComplete(sender,args)
{
var tb = sender.findName(“txtChinese”);
tb.setFontSource(cached_downloader);
tb.fontFamily=“myfont family”;
}

If on a following page this font it is possible to use an identical JavaScript-code for loading again is required to you, but at initialization of it and the subsequent inquiries, the font will be already loaded not from a server, and from a cache of a browser.

A new social network Fatdoor has been released in testing mode.

Service Fatdoor predictably will help Internet users to get acquainted and adjust attitudes with their neighbours. On a site of new service the information from telephone directories is combined with geographical cards of service Microsoft Virtual Earth. Inhabitants of each house are presented on a card in the form of special labels. Thus as informs VentureBeat, users of service can edit the information in structures of the neighbours. Besides participants of community can leave comments and on other objects designated on a card, for example, about the companies working in this or that area, entertaining institutions and so forth

Now access to social network Fatdoor is given only under invitations. Company Fatdoor has already got financial support at a rate of five and a half of millions US dollars from Norwest Venture Partners and KeyNote Ventures. It is supposed, that access to Fatdoor all interested person will be opened in Spring of next year.

By the way recently on the Internet there was other socially-focused service in which users can leave the information on the neighbours. On site RottenNeighbor visitors on conditions of anonymity can complain of people living nearby, whose behaviour does not keep within the standard frameworks. Places of residing of “disgusting” neighbours then are displayed on card Google Maps. It is supposed, that service RottenNeighbor will help those people who are going to buy the house or to move from one area to another.

Google has announced the Android Developer Challenge on web application development for Android mobile platform. The operation system Android was represented by Google last week. In a basis of Android was placed the Linux kernel with open code. And access to mentioned platform will be given to telecomunication companies and device developers in according to Apache license.

There will be two stages of Android Developer Challenge contest. Outsourcing developers must to develop custom application for Android. From Jan 2 to March 3 there will be an acceptance of applications. Authors of 50 the most interesting applications will get 25K USD. At the final TOP 10 authors of custom software develpment applications will get 275K USD. And the next ten places will get 100K USD. The second stage of Android Developer Challenge contest will be after official releases of new mobile devices with Android mobile platform.