Category: Software

A virtual server products list

mmpower Internet and Web, Software, Technology March 6, 2005

VPS stands for virtual private Server, a techology to divide a server into multiple “virtual machines” and each of the “virtual server” can run its own operating system as if it’s a standalone server. VPS is mainly used for Web hosting. It can also be used toestablished “sandbox” or for demo/testing purposes etc.

The technology is based on virtual machine technology that exists for a while.

Virtual server products that I know of:

– IBM had the technology (named zen?) to divide a mainframe…

w.bloggar–desktop blog tool

mmpower Software March 1, 2005

w.bloggar supports writting and publishing blogs from desktop for many blog sites and blog tools such as blogger, movableType, B2, WordPress, .Text etc.

This post was created nad published by w.bloggar.

My pain on Java open source portal evaluation still goes on

mmpower Internet and Web, java, Software, Technology February 19, 2005

After extensive search, reading, comparing and trying, finally I limited my choices to the following three:

– exo platform
– Liferay
– uportal

All of them have JSR 168 support, which is my basic choosing criteria. Still they all have pros and cons:

– exo platform: the most technically advanced; has all the buzz words like JSR 168, JSR 170, WSRP, IOC, JSF etc; it uses PICO, the light-weight IOC framework; it also uses JSF as the portal presentation technology and has an eclipse plug in for…

PHP, .NET or J2EE? –Some considerations when choosing web development platform

mmpower Internet and Web, java, Software, Technology February 19, 2005

One of my old posts, with some thoughts apparently not true or outdated in today’s view; just put it here to fill the space 😉

— The technical platform selection first is determined by what kinds of resources/expertise the developemnt team have.

— Language by itself: PHP is a scripting language, like VB script used in ASP. whileas Jsp and asp.net are pre-compiled when serving the request, Java and ASP.NET(whether C# , VB.net, J# or others) are full-fledged object-oriented language; PHP is…