Googlielmo's blog

Please watch this interesting video I found on TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen_at_work The speaker, Jason Fried, explains very well some concepts people doing creative works (and IT is among them) know: you need long stretches of uninterrupted time to get something done . Like Jason says, work, like sleep, is phased-based and can be interrupted often (this has scientific basis, it's not just an opinion). Keeping this in mind it could be easier to find some ways to improve productivity in your company. I am open to the discussion. I ask readers to share their thoughts about this matter. Thanks.

JPPF ( http://www.jppf.org/ ) is a Java framework which can help to implement and run a parallel Java program. It allows a Java application to run independent parts of it on different machines in parallel in order to dramatically reduce their processing time. It is useful to split a computing-intensive Java application into several mostly independent parts (which are typically called tasks). JPPF is Open Source and released under the Apache license 2.0. These are the main features of this framework: Allows a grid (a server, to which any number of execution nodes are attached.) to be up and running in minutes. Provides a simple programming model that abstracts the complexity of distributed and parallel processing . It's an highly scalable (from small to large networks) and distributed framework for the parallel execution of cpu intensive tasks. Provides seamless integration with the most popular J2EE application servers (IBM WebSphere, JBoss, WebLogic, etc.).   ...