http://theportableconsultant.com/blog ECM infrastructure architecture... and unrelated matters. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:31:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Portable Consultant has noticed that the few posts he once did about the Lexar Lightning and its portable USB applications are the most popular hits on his blog site, almost all of which come via Google. So it is with great shame that I must confess to being remiss ... http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2008/06/06/increasing-portablility/ Booth bunny Once in a while every articulate consultant gets to play booth bunny at some technical show. So, having donned a jacket and tie, rather than the fur-trimmed swimsuit, The Portable Consultant was happy to take his turn describing his client's services to their customers. During a break in the ... http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2008/04/18/e-in-ecm-stands-for-enterprise/ The Internet isn't our modern version of the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive is closer in spirit to that ancient centre of knowledge. link rot Over time, especially Internet time, web links break. It's a part of the natural changing order of things. But the Portable Consultant is particularly sorry ... http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2008/02/13/oracle_link_rot_and_library_of_alexandria/ The Portable Consultant has only now noticed Developer Shed's good overview of the acquisition of key the open source database company MySQL by Sun Microsystems. This is certainly good for Sun. It is probably a good place for MySQL, given the alternatives. And it is most likely good for MySQL fans, ... http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2008/01/28/mysql-acquisition-by-sun/ The other morning The Portable Consultant caught the second part of a two part interview (RealMedia ram) with Canada's Industry Minister Jim Prentice on CBC's (very) early morning business show, The Business Network. (It's sad that this business show is relegated to the ridiculously early time slot of 5:45 AM ... http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2008/01/05/fair-use-mr-minister/ It never rains, but it pours. Another data loss story has broken closer to home... well, Newfoundland is not that close but too close for comfort: It seems that a "private sector consultant" on a provincial government contract (not unlike The Portable Consultant, in fact) took a government PC home and ... http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2007/11/26/newfoundland-data-take-out/ Cost cutting is being blamed for the loss of massive amounts of personal data in this widely-reported UK government data loss case. The Portable Consultant knows of at least one excellent free open source data encryption tool that could have protected the data. How very, very sad for all those concerned. The protection ... http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2007/11/22/uk-data-loss-penny-wise-pound-foolish/ It was the spring of 2006 when The Portable Consultant first posted comments here about Second Life's virtual world. That was a playground (umm... for adults, you know - like Vegas). Now we can go to work in a similar environment. Sun has recently set up a virtual world for its teleworkers, very ... http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2007/11/16/virtual-work-at-sun-microsystems-is-a-wonderland/ Feeling unappreciated? ...or just unknown? Try searching on your name and take note of the sponsored links! Sponsored links based on your search keywords can turn anyone, or any thing, into a hot web commodity. Cheers, -pmh ps: These are from SurfWax.com, a useful meta search engine. Sponsored Links Consultants Looking For Consultants? Review And Compare Online. ... http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2007/11/14/you-are-more-famous-than-you-think/ Oracle's announcement of a new free virtual server solution is, at the very least, an extension of those magazine ads that offered greater uptime by running Oracle on top of Linux (the Oracle Unbreakable Linux campaign). It has been said that Oracle's main interest in Linux, and Linux support, is to ... http://theportableconsultant.com/blog/2007/11/13/oracle-vm-solution-extends-hosting-options/