Happy Mashup New Year!
Posted 01/05/2009 - 17:04 by chriswarner
On December 30 your Mashup Developer Community reached one thousand members! This is a great milestone and it is something you all should be proud of. Without your support and your referrals to co-workers, we wouldn’t be here. (If you haven't used the 'Invite a Friend' page, check it out!)
And I am very proud to say that because of this I lost a bet to Deepak, one of my fellow Mashup Developer Community Managers. As part of the bet, I promised to distrbute some holiday treats to all of you. So, here ya go... [Read More...]
An Enterprise Mashup Whitepaper WORTH READING!
Posted 01/06/2009 - 11:51 by jess
In an effort to highlight our best content, I recently re-read our 'Executive Guide to Mashups in the Enterprise' whitepaper written by Dion Hinchcliffe and that lead me straight to you. Since most of you are developers and consider yourself 'mashup mashters', your knowledge and passion compells you to talk mashups at lunch on IM or at the latest mashup conference. But not everyone that you talk to has the same mashup background. Some of us are building mashup applications and some of us are just trying to learn the technology's potential. [Read More...]
Getting Started with Role-Based Security in Your Mashups
Posted 12/08/2008 - 15:51 by danmalks
We ship Presto Developer Edition with everything you need to get started immediately out-of-the box. For example, we ship with Tomcat for your convenience (although you can deploy to your favorite app server, if you choose)
When it comes to security, you can connect Presto to your existing LDAP in order to access your users and groups from within Presto. But we ship with a simple internal user management database for your convenience out-of-the-box. In this blog, I will provide an overview of a basic use case for using Role Based Access Control (RBAC) with Presto.
I hope this will be a good jumping off point for you to get started with Presto Developer Edition so you can start rapidly building secure Enterprise Mashups. While I outline a simple example, the same approach can be used once you have integrated with your corporate LDAP or Single-Sign-On (SSO) solutions, as well.
The 5 Most Common Mashup Mistakes
Posted 12/04/2008 - 12:22 by chriswarner
I originally published this blog on Fast Company. Since Joe McKendrick at ZDNet and Loraine Lawson at IT Business Edge deemed it worthy of commentary, I thought all of you might find it interesting reading too. If so (or not), make sure you let me know what you think!
Mashups are a popular topic lately, in both IT and business circles. Gartner recently named them a ‘Top 10 IT Technology for 2009’. But if your organization is thinking about ‘getting mashy’, here are five common pitfalls that you can avoid with just a little education and forethought...
Are you looking to get extraordinary results from your data ?
Posted 12/04/2008 - 12:20 by djleon2001
Data is everywhere and in so many different platforms, technology, and formats; the question is 'how to put all this data together to take advantage of it on demand?'. Wouldn't it be great to combine data from all the areas in your company regardless of the container? We used to have most systems based in databases and a few others in text files. Now we have others now in XML, etc. How do we merge them?
The answer is not to write a custom application; by now you know it will take a fortune and a lot of time. Fortunately JackBe has created a new Enterprise Suite to do all this for you. In minutes you can download a Developer Edition of the product, install it, and merge the most common data source types like Database, Webservices, REST, POJOs, and even Microsoft Excel Spread Sheets. This is the Revolution of the Data , which we call Mashups.
MDC Badge: Kindly Mash!
Posted 12/03/2008 - 01:41 by deepak.alur
Like Presto? Want to support the MDC? Display this Badge on your blog, wiki, webpages, etc. and show the world you got some mashing muscles!
Simply cut and paste this HTML... [Read More...]
Have you downloaded and installed Presto yet?
Posted 11/30/2008 - 02:56 by deepak.alur
Mashups can turn any Enterprise into a Superorganism
Posted 11/29/2008 - 15:07 by luis.derechin
[ Cross-posted from http://blogs.jackbe.com ]
A few nights ago I watched a very interesting piece on the Discovery Channel about ant colonies called ‘Ant Wars’. (Give me a few more lines and you’ll understand why this has anything to do with IT, enterprises or Mashups). I was awe-struck with the way that an ant colony behaves as one unified being rather than millions of individuals - some ants perform one function, which other ants use to their advantage so as to be able to perform their function more easily, and so on, and so on.
The commentator mentioned how scientists consider an ant colony to be a “Superorganism”. The Wikipedia, as usual, had a helpful description of the term: ‘A superorganism is an organism consisting of many organisms…where division of labour is highly specialised and where individuals are not able to survive by themselves for extended periods of time’. [Read More...]
An Article Worth Reading: 'Enterprise Mashups - The Icing on your SOA'
Posted 11/23/2008 - 20:11 by chriswarner
Much has been written about the synergy between mashups and SOA (we rcapped a lot of it in a recent blog). Mike Kavis at Toolbox.com has gone one step further and added mashups into the SOA-enabled enterprise archietcture.
Here's the setup:
We want to hide the complexity of our architecture from the end user and expose data services to them to consume. At the same time we want these mashups to be equally secure as the services we write and adhere to the same governing principles. Enterprise mashup products provide tools to make managing this layer easy and efficient.
Mashup Video - Person of Interest Tracker
Posted 11/17/2008 - 03:50 by mcvayw
The Person of Interest Tracker uses a number of mashups to process DC city statistics. The mashups check known actions by a person of interest against other potential incidents in the same neighborhood. The application can be used at: http://demos3.jackbe.com/mashlets/fugitiveFinder/
