Archive for the 'Statistics' Category

God only Knows (as understood by Elvis Costello)

I’m in the middle of what could best be described as multi-media coding. I’m working or a JSR-168 portlet for WebSphere Portal. the portlet renders graphs and tables of statistics for a cluster of Sametime 7.5 Meeting Room servers. I’m using Workplace Dashboard Framework to create the portlet and Web Charts 3D to compose [...]

Maintenance Windows (… it’s a Hosting thing)

It’s 8pm (EST) and I’m at my desk in my home office in Massachusetts about to perform a service upgrade on a pretty comprehensive service we installed at ServerVault in Virginia. Of course, I am ready with everything tested twice and ready to deploy (grin)
The service is hosted Sametime instant messaging, web conferencing, chat conferencing, [...]

Continued ‘Woossification’ …

Gene Lavancy, on the Boston Fox 25 morning news called it “woosification’ when describing the recent proposed Massachusetts law required helmets for kids headed out to go snow sledding.

Geek Alert - what do you get when …

All non-geeks, ignore this post
If you are still reading, you are either truly bored, a geek, or much too curious. In any of these cases, I will tell you what you get when you …
… combine an old microphone, digital oscilloscope, band-pass filter, signal trigger, and signal capture …

I used Visual Analyzer and [...]

Zen by the numbers

I headed down to the job site today and given the nearly perfect weather - amazingly 78 and dry - I figured Zen and I could get some play time around the place. Now remember, there are 91 acres of land - that’s just short of 4 million square feet of space - and Zen [...]