Long time ago, I would like to write something on web security, as lots of business being transferred to web infrastructure. The threat has become more severe in a short period of time. Web insecurity becomes a big problem today. We have no choice but to confront the issues. Read more…
After I read through the 2009 product list at TechCrunch, I like to list my “2009: Products I Can’t Live Without” as the below:
1 Gmail
I have been used to open my Gmail account and hooked there and keep in touch with my world. I can not imagine that I lost my Gmail.
After I moved my blog onto WordPress (this blog), I began to like it, its interface, its development community, its blogs and etc. This has become one part of my life. Read more…
昨日，著名工作调查网站Glassdoor推出最新一期的最让人喜欢工作的和最不让人喜欢工作的公司排行榜。这个排行榜是从Glassdoor拥有11000个公司的数据库中投票选出来的。
下面是最让人喜欢工作的前20个公司，其中我们熟悉的IT和科技类公司还真不少，像Google, SAP, Adobe, Apple, Juniper等，不见Microsoft,Cisco,HP, IBM等的身影： Read more…
真是令人激动的一个服务，一个很酷的“产品” by Google – 三国历史地图。可以查看历史地图，也可以现代地图，也可以半透明层叠地图。
可以清晰地看到新野-襄阳-当阳-江陵-夏口-赤壁-华容-夷陵-夷道-猇亭等著名历史名迹。
更为令人兴奋的是作者还把若干著名历史事件的地图轨迹展现出来，可以清楚地看到赤壁之战的战略态势。
那是十多年前，我从旧书摊掏回一本历史地图集，至今还经常拿出来翻一翻。如果Google或者那家Web内容大师能将其搬上互联网，供大家查询娱乐，善莫大焉！
这段时间，看了易中天先生的《品三国》，黎东方先生的《细说三国》，很是过了三国的瘾。对百家讲坛的“通俗”/“创新”也有了新的认识。回头抽时间再和大家分享这方面的想法。
回头再看面前的三国地图，仿佛又回到了刚上研究生的时代，同学师兄弟一起玩三国的喜怒哀乐再现眼前，一时间金戈铁马，热血豪情，滚滚长江东逝水，浪花淘尽英雄！ Read more…
前面关于架构师如何思考(参见http://sbin.cn/blog/2008/06/16/perfect-architect/ 以及 http://sbin.cn/blog/2008/11/17/architecture-thinking/)进行了一些探讨，架构师应该充分理解业务背景和需求、综合运用IT的多领域技术，对企业IT的战略、发展路线、以及某些具体的实际的需求提出分析或解决方案。所以，架构师注定要是双语的 – 可以使用业务语言和管理层沟通，可以使用很技术的语言和技术专家和工程师们沟通。
在前文中还多次强调了架构师应该充分掌握并熟练运用分类学 – 从多维度、多角度来观察、思考，并深入浅出地阐述展现自己的分析和解决方案。在实际工作中，架构师经常需要面对具有很多不确定性的需求，在具有很多不确定性的环境下开发战略、路线图或解决方案，制定预算等。这时候，通常是两难的： 没有清晰的战略和路线图，制订了不了预算和项目计划；没有预算分析，管理层又很难批准什么战略或路线图。是Top-down呢，还是bottom-up呢？ 要解决这种困境，需要架构师们主动地、灵活地出击，抓住问题的主要“矛盾”和关键环节，拿出“高”、“中”、“低”，“近”、“中”、“远”，等一些组合的分析，以便于管理层进行决策。
在诸多不确定性的环境下，要作出较为准确、切中要害的分析，架构师的个人经验和专业知识非常重要。除了分类学一个工具之外，还有一个小工具叫估算。 Read more…
转帖中国移动Labs张为民先生的趣文 – 云计算漫谈之“云之初，本无奈”。这篇文章亦庄亦谐，有历史有技术，值得一看。下面是转帖的原文。
现在这世界上有两个词特别流行，一个是减肥，一个是云计算。呵呵，至少在我的世界里，这些词是热频。我一吃饭，就有人说减肥，我一上班，就老听见云计算。开始我还说呢，我是一特例，后来参加各种技术会议，听到的还是这三字儿：“云计算”。 Read more…
当前很多企业都面临这一个选择：是升级到Vista还是直接升级到Windows7. 为什么有这样的问题呢？主要原因大家都明白就是Vista的兼容性问题(参见一篇老文章”Vista的兼容性真的不怎么好” http://sbin.cn/blog/2007/07/26/vistacompatibility/)，当然还有，Vista的用户界面也一直为人诟病。前两天，有位微软的美国专家来访，也提到“who signed off Vista UI?” “why not regard UI design as part of usual architecture design”…，说明微软内部对这个问题也很很多的反思。 Read more…
WordPress released v2.7 at Dec.11. The code name of 2.7 is “Coltrane”. It’s a major release with a lot of upgrades and changes, particularly at the User Interface (UI). I have been using the beta versions of 2.7 for a few weeks. The UI of the new version is really very impressive, straightforward, easy to follow.
Another benefit of the new version is the automatic “upgrade” functionality, ie. you don’t need to download the newer version and upload to your wordpress and unzip it and activate it. What you need to do within 2.7 is just t0 click the “upgrade” under “Tools” tab. It helps ease the maintenance of WordPress greatly. Really a big good news! Read more…
Roger Sessions是ObjectWatch的CTO。他在EA邮件列表中的一个邮件分享了自己关于企业架构的独特观点，非常令人印象深刻，无疑可以给大家带来很多思考。下面我将自己做了稍许翻译+编辑的段落分享给大家。
Roger认为EA企业架构是可以在经济危机萧条时代生存下来的，甚至能够进一步发展。但是前提是EA不再将多少年后的收益、长期的远景目标当作自己的价值定位。而是必须定位为给企业带来立即的、切实的、甚至急迫的。
EA can survive hard times, even thrive. But first we must make some major changes in how we view EA. No more poorly defined payoffs that are years in the future. The payoffs must be immediate. They must be real. And they must be compelling. Read more…
Google released its Google Friend Connect. It’s very cool with bright future to mix the blogs and social networks. This is my first test run of Google Friend Connect. See the bottom right corner of the siderbar. Welcome to invite your friends to this blog. Enjoy it.
This is a widget based on wp-postview-widget by Lester “GaMerZ’ Chan(http://lesterchan.net). It will help you add a PostViews-Plus Widget to display most viewed posts and/or pages (with time span) on your sidebar. You will need to activate WP-PostViews Plus first. You can checkout and download WP-PostView Plus here.
I know there is much space to improve for this widget. Your comment and advice are hightly appreciated. If you think it’s useful, I will be more than happy to hear that. Read more…
Plugins are essentials to enhance your WordPress blog. There are tons of Plugins you can download at wordpress.org. However, what are coolest is not important. What are useful to you is the key. The below ones are what I am using. Do you like them?
Akismet 2.2.2
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg. http://akismet.com/ Read more…
WordPress released a new stable version 2.6.5. The officical WordPress organization advises all users to upgrade to this new version. The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x.
I changed the theme to “Clean Press“. It’s very simple, concise, crisp. As Dave said it focuses on content. I slightly modified it by changing the sidebar to right. If you like this one, Click to download Clean Press (right sidebar).
近日，央视接连两天对百度竞价排名的弊端进行了报道，各大媒体也没有放过这个机会，百度的媒体形象一度跌入低谷。联系到Google深入人心的“不作恶”形象，两形之下，给人高低立判之感。当公司发展到一定阶段，“民心所向”和“政治”就成为一个非常重要的环节。
虽然百度在国内市场占有率遥遥领先，但是由于其“竞价”方式的排名，搜索结果往往让人难以接受，从而放弃。尤其是专业人士，很依赖搜索结果的公正和客观，如果发现搜索出来的是一个报价的排名，还不如直接看广告了。
我在Google和百度上面分别搜索“信息安全”和”Security”，搜索结果大家一看就可以感觉到百度“竞价”排名对你的嘲弄： Read more…
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