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Here's some valuable advice for Startups from the King of the Ethernet Bob Metcalfe. Don’t be afraid of going up against entrenched incumbents, like he did with IBM, and its Token Ring technology. Long story short, Metcalfe and Ethernet won. Read about the disruptive technologies he thinks will change everything.

IBM’s global startup competition ‘world tour’ called SmartCamp kicks off in Bangalore on April 27. Slots for India are now full, but there are still openings in the next leg of the competition in Austin. You can take a look at all the Mentors that will be helping and get five SmartCamp tips to help you get your Startup accepted.

Startups fail often because they create a product or service that no one really wants in mass. To mitigate Startup failure you can test your Idea at Kickstarter - A cool place to not only test interest in your idea, but also a great place tp obtain croudsourced funding for your Startup. A good idea, communicated well on KickStarter can spread fast and wide, and the large Kickstarter community can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement.

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.

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.

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.

Grails is a modern Web development framework that mixes familiar Java technologies like Spring and Hibernate. See how easy it is to implement a Grails file-upload capabilities for the body of a blog entry and put together a hand-rolled Atom feed for syndication.

jQuery lets you create your own plug-ins to extend the functions of jQuery—and to give back to the jQuery community. This article steps you through the process for creating your own jQuery plug-in and as well as getting it listed on the jQuery plug-in community Web pages. Be a part of the JQuery JavaScript library many have grown to depend on.

Now you can Combine the power of Adobe Flex's Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) capability, with the power of WebSphere Portal's ability to build flexible, SOA-based solutions. This article walks you through a process to quickly build rich client and component-based Flex applications for WebSphere Portal.

JSF 1 was developed in an ivory tower, and the results, arguably, were less than spectacular. But JSF got one thing right — it let the marketplace come up with lots of real-world innovations. See how with the greatly improved JSF 2.0 you can Get rid of XML, simplify navigation, use Groovy, and take advantage of resource handling to easily implement robust, Ajaxified Web applications.

Grails provides all the basic building blocks you need to put together a secure Web application. Setting up an authentication infrastructure answers the question, "Who are you?" Get a hands-on lesson in enabling logins, limiting activity based on whether or not the User is logged in, and how to add in some authorization based on the User's role.

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.

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.

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.

For some, Ajax is still a mystery. It's something that the "cool kids" and "bad boys" of Web development do, and they've never had the time, patience, or skill to take it on. If you're one of these PHP developers, never fear: By the time you're done reading this article, you'll know enough to become a real Ajax pro. This article shows how to use jQuery to easily add Ajax functionality to any PHP Web application. When you're done, you should have a pretty good grounding in not only some jQuery basics but also in the fundamentals of Ajax.

In this article you will build a Web application using Grails and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). You will also use some richer UI widgets from the Ext GWT library. Familiarity with Groovy is great, but not completely necessary.

This article shows you how to affect the lifeblood of any Web application: the URIs used for navigation. The permalinks back to individual entries are passed around the Internet like calling cards; the more descriptive they are, the more effective they are. Learn how to tweak the UrlMappings.groovy file to create new pathways. And finally, you'll create a custom codec to generate custom URIs more easily.

This article explains the underpinnings of Twitter - specifically, what the REST API exposes, and shows PHP developers how to use public libraries to extract status from their own and their friends' timelines and convert it to other formats, most notably RSS. After reading this, you will have the skills to build your own Twitter and PHP applications and utilities.

This article demonstrates how you can build a Java™ application that uses the client software development kit (SDK) libraries from AOL to get commands from users. Your application will be able to process the commands and respond to the users with results.

By combining open source Web Content Management System (CMS) and AIX you get a complete, highly secure, scalable, and ready-to-use content management tool with extensive support from the open source community. This article introduces the best open source CMS solutions for AIX available, and helps readers understand the important differences among them. The article also provides a guideline for system architects and developers to help them choose the CMS that best fits their needs.

JavaFX empowers developers to leverage the Java platform to create RIAs. Flickr offers RESTful Web services that can be called from any code, including JavaFX code. In this article, See how JavaFX lets you tap into popular Web services such as Flickr and how you can use it to create interactive user interfaces. Along the way, get a taste of the new capabilities that JavaFX brings to client-side development.

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.

Never underestimate or lose respect for those looking to do you harm: You do so at your own peril. Today, more and more applications are being hosted on the Internet. As organizations have moved their applications to this environment, the threats have increased 100-fold. To avoid becoming a victim, understand what you face, how attacks are carried out, and how you can employ proper defensive measures. A little research and understanding can go a long way.

Not everyone is blessed with a high-speed Internet connection. Even if everyone were, there can be hundreds of reasons why your Web application seems slow and sluggish. In this age of ever-increasing broadband speed, don't think that you shouldn't pay attention to page load times. Learn how to Shave off valuable seconds of your page load times and even more valuable milliseconds of your request and response times. This article provides over twenty tips that will help you create a faster and better experience for your visitors.

As your web applications becomes more popular you may find it harder and harder to serve your web requests as fast as you want. This article provides insight in how Web requests are served, along with the do's and dont's of Web application development. Looking for application bottlenecks, and learning about the Scaling of an application will ensure better data flow and much less trouble.