Thursday, June 23, 2011

The problems: A. Storage costs money, much money. B. Today's storage is very slow and we want fast retrieve of data.

The Solution: Take the commonly-used data and put it in very fast and expensive storage. Take the less used data and put it on slower and cheaper storage. The overall budget should be much lower.

Link (pdf)

Friday, June 24, 2011 3:42:33 AM (Jerusalem Daylight Time, UTC+03:00)
 Wednesday, June 15, 2011

For the google search: Informatica service start and stops

Yeah, that's exactly what happened to me. Everything looked just fine until the last step of the installation, where the installer pings the new integration service, but there is no answer.
Looking at the services manager, I see that the InformaticaService is stopped. When I restart it, it stops after 5-10 seconds. I thought it's because of the service's account settings, but it's not. After some time of search and re-attempts to make it work, this is what I can say if you're stuck as I was:

  • While you're in the installation wizard, on the node configuration step, press the "Advances Settings" button. There, you'll see the min. and max. port numbers. Go back to the node configuration and change the port number so it will be in that range (why it wasn't in the first place? ...)
  • The Windows PATH environment variable must contain the informatica server binary folder: <INFORMATICA_INSTALL_DIR>\Server\bin
  • If you're still stuck, look after the service.log file in the informatica directory. Look at the error and google it.
Hope I saved somebody a few hours.

Thursday, June 16, 2011 6:57:43 AM (Jerusalem Daylight Time, UTC+03:00)
 Thursday, June 02, 2011

Yes, and it's great!

Finally, the semantic web is here. This means that from now on, the search engines won't have to guess what is the content of the (our?) web pages. The answer will be there, behind the scenes.
Technically, we (the web developers) will add new properties to our HTML tags that will describe the content of the text. For example, you can add a property to your DIV or SPAN that will tell the search engine that this is an article, creative idea or a critique.

What is the meaning of this for us, the web developers or independent bloggers? That depends. If you want to make your blog (or site) to appear in more relevant search results, you should add these properties. Yes, you'll have to manually edit your HTML or to make a template. Of course you don't have to do this.
For those who want to have a deeper understanding of this subject, go to the common standard site - Schema.org

Friday, June 03, 2011 6:08:33 AM (Jerusalem Daylight Time, UTC+03:00)