2011
IBM Startup SmartCamp - Part of the Global Entrepreneur Initiative
As part of IBM’s ongoing commitment to foster innovation among Entrepreneurs, IBM announces its ‘SmartCamp’ contest in Bangalore, India on April 27, 2011. This is an exclusive global entrepreneur initiative program bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and experienced mentors with innovative ideas that can help to build a Smarter Planet.
IBM Global Entrepreneur Program to include Germany in 2011
Recently at CeBIT Hannover IBM announced that it would expand the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program to include Germany in 2011 effective immediately. With an amazing bunch of ecosystems partners we believe the German market offers a great opportunity for translating innovation and Entrepreneurship into scalable international businesses.
Update: IBM Entrepreneur SmartCamp Bangalore - Amazing Mentors signup
We are almost there in terms of confirming the mentors for SmartCamp Bangalore. We are delighted to present details of the mentors. This is an amazing collection of talent from the investor, corporate and most importantly entrepreneur communities.
Sproxil Saves Lives With Scratch-Off Tags and Robust Analytics
Interpol has determined that in Nigeria 80% of all drugs are fake, and in Kenya fake drugs are big business with more than 11,000 illegal products sold every day. With millions of dollars worth of counterfeit drugs sold yearly, Sproxil's innovation is a greatly needed tech solution to a big problem that will save countless lives every day.
2009
Finding the way through the semantic Web with HBase
The Hadoop Database (HBase) is well suited for creating a semantic Web and for extracting existing or computed knowledge. Learn how to represent RDF/XML assertions in an HBase database for scientific articles, and discover how HBase and Bigtable are promoting a new approach to storing and processing data.
Build a RESTful service on CICS with PHP
This tutorial shows how you can use Java, and PHP to quickly and easily work with CICS programs and expose them on the Web. If you are a PHP developer, find out how you can use your PHP skills to interact with enterprise assets in CICS; if you are a CICS developer, see how PHP provides a simple and agile way to manipulate your existing resources.
Best practices in securing a Web Server
Securing a Web Server and your hosted applications is indeed a daunting task, but it's not an impossible one. As a public resource, a Web Server is like "bloody shark bait" for some. But it doesn't have to be: Learn to guard against the serious threats to your public Web Servers with a heavy dose of prevention.
The JQuery UI project Widgets
The jQuery UI package aims to create a well-defined and reliable set of user interface widgets that you can reuse within your own Web applications. This article takes you through all of the widgets that are offered in the 1.6 version of JQuery UI. These 6 widgets are the first of hopefully many widgets you'll see from the UI team.
Avoid the gotchas of Agile planning
Are you part of a team that wants to get on board the agile planning bandwagon? Are you using iterative development and still stuck doing "waterations"? This article answers the question, "How do I start developing releases with agile planning?". It shows what worked, as well as the mistakes made, to illustrate a coherent and realistic understanding of the basics of agile planning.
Power-Lift with JSF and Dojo widgets
By leveraging JSF with Dojo technologies, you gain the strengths of both technologies. On the server side, the benefits include end-to-end lifecycle management for components, back-end bean data binding, and event handling. On the client side, you can utilize Dojo's rich widgets, live animations (such as fade and slide), and drag-and-drop. This article explains this process and describes how you can easily build Web applications to give your users a better experience.
Creating and using the new Phar archives in PHP V5.3
This article takes a close look at the new PHP5.3 feature called Phar, which is an archive format that can be used within PHP. Phar can be used to not only archive files but also to deliver and run an entire PHP application from a single file. Unlike JAR archives, Phar archives can be processed by PHP itself and don't require an external tool to create or use them.
Deploying an Eclipse-based application with Java Web Start
Java Web Start (JWS) technology allows you to deploy applications over the Internet with a single click. If you couple JWS with the ability to build an application on the Eclipse Platform, you have a pretty powerful combination. Learn how to build a small, bare-bones application built on the Eclipse Framework and deploy it through Java Web Start (JWS) — a technology you can use to deploy Java applications easily over standard Internet sites, enabling easy upgrades and distribution.
Building a 21st century Web user interface
Today's Web designer has to face a pretty scary fact: they can't design for themselves, or even someone that's mostly like themselves. Instead, applications must be built based on the consumer, who comes loaded with expectation and pre-disposition. This article helps you Understand what your apps are competing against, how do you build applications that feel usable, intuitive, and satisfying to today's typical Internet user, and how to take the upper hand.
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