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Entries from April 24th, 2009

Revisiting the passage of time via a tree

April 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Life

Back on 7/30/2005, I marked time by reporting a new tree plant. Until now, I hadn’t followed with how time has “grown” since.

When you compare the first original picture to the one above, it’s clear that the tree has grown quite nicely. In addition, you can see why this particular variety of tree was planted–for [...]

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Getting Twitter

April 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Development Toolbox, Lessons, Technology

Yeah, I know that Twitter lately is all about Oprah, CNN and Ashton Kutcher, but it’s also about brief remarks, gripes and triumphs related to products and/or services that you send into the world wide market. (And if you were waiting for The Tipping Point, it’s already occurred for Twitter, IMHO.)
BTW, before I go any [...]

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First 100K concurrent user ECM benchmark

April 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Content management

Earlier today, EMC formally announced the results of its significant Enterprise Content Management benchmark with Microsoft and HP.
The newly released study is one of the largest-ever benchmarks in the ECM industry, demonstrating 100,000 [concurrent] users of Documentum 6.5 [SP1] engaging in a variety of content management-related transactions and sustaining that workload over the course of [...]

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Addressing MaxReceivedMessageSize issues

April 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · DFS, Services, Technology

If you’re a .NET-based consumer of Enterprise Content Services (e.g. those offered via Documentum Foundation Services) and you experience a Windows Communication Foundation CommunicationException having to do with MaxReceivedMessageSize, you may be interested in the details of this post. This post applies both to direct-to-WSDL consumers and also to consumers that leverage the DFS productivity [...]

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Building content-enabled applications

April 11th, 2009 · 7 Comments · CMIS, Content management, DFS, Services

Both Pie and Marko have blogged about content-enabled applications, or what Gartner calls CEVAs (content-enabled vertical applications).
As it so happens, I’ll be presenting there will be a session on this subject next month at EMC World 2009.
Based on my research of what folks label a content-enabled application, two things rise to the top: process (surrounding [...]

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