Yesterday evening I had the privilige to attend a session about the new counting guidelines for Service Oriented Architecture. Martin Jacobs, chairman of the nesma sig on soa, presented it. Unfortunately the session was under non - disclosure.
The good news is that review session 2 is now under way, after which the nesma board still has to approve it. They hope to have the book printed by the fall conference of the nesma, and i suggested that it if the printers cant have the book ready, but the board has approved the document, it would be distributed as a pdf.
The result of the document is not very intuitive, but it is very logical and well thought out. It alligns neatly with the existing 2.2 counting guidelines.
dinsdag 31 augustus 2010
donderdag 26 augustus 2010
Even the best may err...
The newspapers paid a lot of attention to Gmails new phonecall function. And that Google recalled it for all foreign users, granting it only to its US and Canada customers. I checked yesterday, and seemed to have missed it.
Great was my surprise this morning, when I found that I DO have gmails phone call function, see screenshot. The function now seems to be available for everyone, but free calls can only be made to fixed numbers in the US and Canada. A very nice solution, as it allows free calls from Europe to the US and Canada. I am not sure if everyone got the function, or that it only shows up because my interface language is set to US English. If the latter is the cause, you might wish to change your setting. Every gamil user also got a calling credit of 0.10 dollarcent to try it.
Even the best may err...
And the very best will use it to come up with something even better.
Great was my surprise this morning, when I found that I DO have gmails phone call function, see screenshot. The function now seems to be available for everyone, but free calls can only be made to fixed numbers in the US and Canada. A very nice solution, as it allows free calls from Europe to the US and Canada. I am not sure if everyone got the function, or that it only shows up because my interface language is set to US English. If the latter is the cause, you might wish to change your setting. Every gamil user also got a calling credit of 0.10 dollarcent to try it.Even the best may err...
And the very best will use it to come up with something even better.
dinsdag 24 augustus 2010
Firefox 4
Though a new browser version doesnt have to do much with it maintenance, it such a long time ago that i wrote something on this blog that something is betetr than nothing.
I just downloaded firefox 4, which was originally codenamed firefox sync but which was according to one source renamed to firefox panorama. That statement seems not true: the title of one mozilla page says: Firefox 4 Beta Updated with Sync and Panorama.
Sync allows a user to synchronize his bookmarks, form-data and cookies across multiple computers. For this, your data is stored on a firefox server. They promise that the data will not be linked to your travels thorugh the web. Still I see some privacy issues lurking here. Maybe it is a real issue, or maybe it is Much Ado About Nothing. No doubt others will comment on that further.
The first thing that strikes me as nice is the interface: neat! Less spacy bars, more space for the page itself. Good!
Also a pleasant surprise was the speed with which it started: imho considerably faster than the previous version.
Firefox panorama is all about tabs. Usually I have some 8-10 tabs open, something firefox could handle easily. Usually they are about several topics: a set of tabs about css, some on one of the work related topics i research, such as now this beta, one for gmail, and some on the online games i play. When i grouped them, FF allows me to show only those that are in the group. I short video shows hwo to do them, very well done.
And as you can see in the picture, I'm writing this blog with the beta. No compatibility issues detected till now. I look forward to some page development, which with FF plugins has always been a strong point of FF.
I just downloaded firefox 4, which was originally codenamed firefox sync but which was according to one source renamed to firefox panorama. That statement seems not true: the title of one mozilla page says: Firefox 4 Beta Updated with Sync and Panorama.
Sync allows a user to synchronize his bookmarks, form-data and cookies across multiple computers. For this, your data is stored on a firefox server. They promise that the data will not be linked to your travels thorugh the web. Still I see some privacy issues lurking here. Maybe it is a real issue, or maybe it is Much Ado About Nothing. No doubt others will comment on that further.
The first thing that strikes me as nice is the interface: neat! Less spacy bars, more space for the page itself. Good!
Also a pleasant surprise was the speed with which it started: imho considerably faster than the previous version.
Firefox panorama is all about tabs. Usually I have some 8-10 tabs open, something firefox could handle easily. Usually they are about several topics: a set of tabs about css, some on one of the work related topics i research, such as now this beta, one for gmail, and some on the online games i play. When i grouped them, FF allows me to show only those that are in the group. I short video shows hwo to do them, very well done.
And as you can see in the picture, I'm writing this blog with the beta. No compatibility issues detected till now. I look forward to some page development, which with FF plugins has always been a strong point of FF.
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