Date: 08/16/05     Keywords: asp

For mission-critical applications, the process of automating business policies, procedures, and business logic is often better managed by leveraging a Business Rule Engine. Using business rules can help you develop more agile applications with shorter time-to-market. A business rule is a statement that defines or constrains some aspect of the business; a business rule is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-develop-rule-based-java-software-using-java-rule-engine-api-jsr-94/

Date: 08/16/05     Keywords: software, java

Summary Java EE 5 (formerly J2EE 1.5) Unanimously Passes Public Review Ballot; Promises Ease of Use Java 1.3.1 and 1.4.2 Release 2 DP4 for Tiger Java Software is Carving a Niche in Critical Real-Time Applications Market Java EE 5 (formerly J2EE 1.5) Unanimously Passes Public Review Ballot; Promises Ease of Use JSR 244, the umbrella specification that defines what other [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/latest-news-in-java-software-world/

Date: 08/16/05     Keywords: software, java

With tweaks and modifications, Java is finding a home in critical real-time applications ranging from the military to telecommunications For several years real-time versions of Java from smaller companies such as Aonix, Aicas and Apogee Software have jousted for market share. Now, large companies such as Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. are starting to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-software-is-carving-a-niche-in-critical-real-time-applications-market/

Date: 08/16/05     Keywords: java

Back to The POJO days and lots of goodies scheduled with Java Enterprise Edition 5.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-ee-5-formerly-j2ee-15-unanimously-passes-public-review-ballot-promises-ease-of-use/

Date: 08/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

The odds are against Merck & Co. prevailing in a wrongful-death civil Vioxx lawsuit being tried in Texas, an analyst at Prudential Equity Group says. It is the first Vioxx-related lawsuit to come to trial. The plaintiff in the case has alleged that Merck's Vioxx contributed to the sudden death of a man in Texas who [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/prudential-analyst-sees-merck-losing-vioxx-lawsuit/

Date: 08/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

Impressive progress has been made in the treatment of haemophilia using gene therapy. Professor Katherine High, a leading researcher from Philadelphia USA, is examining the obstacles to successful gene therapy in human patients with haemophilia. Gene therapy has already been used to successfully treat haemophilia in mice and dogs. "It has taken approximately 5 - 8 years to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/significant-progress-in-haemophilia-treatment-using-gene-therapy/

Date: 08/16/05     Keywords: virus

Scientists discovered that acupunture gives relief to Human Immuno Virus patients from bloating, cramping, and appetite lose, symptoms which are often caused by side effects of popular anti-HIV drugs. Highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) drugs for HIV prolongs life. However it also causes serious digestive problems for which patients are likely to avoid their medications. According to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/acupuncture-relieves-side-effects-of-anti-hiv-drugs/

Date: 08/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

Researchers from University of Tokyo, Japan have developed a flexible artificial skin that could give robots a humanlike sense of touch. The team manufactured a type of "skin" capable of sensing pressure and another capable of sensing temperature. The pressure-sensing and temperature-sensing networks can be laminated together, forming an artificial skin that can detect both properties [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/flexible-artifical-skin-to-give-robots-human-like-sense-of-touch-and-feel/

Date: 08/16/05     Keywords: technology, microsoft

Could this end up being one of the most hilarious development in IT for a while? It seems that Apple is being made to sweat over its iPod technology after it emerged late last week that its lazy lawyers took so long to patent its phenomenally successful player that Microsoft beat them to it. The fallout [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/would-apple-have-to-pay-microsoft-for-ipod/

Date: 08/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

Pig brain cells could be implanted into human brains in USA by the beginning of next year if trials of a pioneering treatment for Huntington's disease are approved by FDA. Similar tests on primates have proved "astonishingly successful" in treating the degenerative brain disease, according to researchers who carried out the work at Living Cell Technologies [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/human-study-of-potential-cure-for-huntingtons-disease-using-pigs-brain-cell-implants/

Date: 08/14/05     Keywords: virus

A cheap drug, enfurvitide, has shown promise in stamping out hidden pockets of HIV in three people who have long been infected with the virus. The result is described by the US scientists as merely a “proof of concept”, but has inevitably sparked talk of a cure for AIDS. HIV can already be kept in check by [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hiv-breakthrough-study-in-us-raises-hopes-for-a-cure-finally/

Date: 08/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

A decision is due to be made today whether a billboard labelling President Bush an ‘evil bastard’ is appropriate, NZ City of New Zealand reports Monday. The publication provides a few details: The Hell Pizza billboards have been erected around Auckland and Wellington. Half of the poster is taken up with a photo of the president [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/even-hell-has-its-standards/

Date: 08/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

Simple way to display quotations in your WordPress blog.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/adding-quotations-to-blog/

Date: 08/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

I like to read incisive commentaries from cricket pundits and knowledgable journalists. By and large they fall in two categories. Almost all journalists and most ex-cricketers are mostly biased from start and then they try to justify their conclusion with cliches. And few and far between them we find people with an in-depth understanding of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cricket-my-favortite-commentor-arjuna-ranatunga/

Date: 08/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

I used Bloglet for allowing email subscription option to my blogs. However for the past week or more bloglet is broken. I have tried contacting the owner Monsur (owner of Bloglet) without success. It still remains broken. Another option is RMail. However it sends email once an hour which can be overwhelming to users for high-frequency-posting blogs [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/email-subscription-system-for-blogs-bloglet-is-broken-alternatives/

Date: 08/13/05     Keywords: rss

To my delight I realized WordPress 1.5 provides an extremely simple way for Podcasting (sample). Podcasting is seamlessly supported in Wordpress 1.5 and beyond. All it takes is to just link to an audio file in the post and WordPress does the rest. It automatically adds the necessary enclosure tag to RSS2 and Atom feeds to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-podcast-using-wordpress-blogging-software/

Date: 08/13/05     Keywords: php

A command execution vulnerability has been found in WordPress's handling of incoming cookie information which allows remote attackers to cause the program to execute arbitrary code if the PHP settings of register_globals has been set to On. Already a perl and php exploit is available. It affects WordPress version 1.5.1.3 and before when register_globals is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/command-execution-vulnerability-in-wordpress-affecting-all-versions/

Date: 08/11/05     Keywords: no keywords

A voice synthesiser powered by thought alone could one day enable severely disabled patients to converse more instinctively. At least, so thinks Philip Kennedy of Georgia, US, who is developing a brain-activated speech system with backing from the US government's National Institute of Health. The device builds upon evidence that a specific region of the brain, known [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/thought-controlled-voice-synthesizer/

Date: 08/11/05     Keywords: no keywords

A California doctor has been indicted on federal charges for "sub-dosing" AIDS patients, or giving them less than the prescribed amounts of their medications in order to increase his profit. Dr. George Kooshian, a well-known California AIDS doctor, was accused of "subdosing" his patients - giving them less than the prescribed amount of medication to boost [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/are-you-being-sub-dosed-by-your-doctor/

Date: 08/11/05     Keywords: no keywords

Moderately elevated levels of insulin increase the levels of inflammatory markers and beta-amyloid in plasma and in cerebrospinal fluid, and these markers may contribute to Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study posted online today from Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The study will be published in the October print edition of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/moderately-high-insulin-levels-may-contribute-to-alzheimers-disease/