Alameda Tech Lab and Research Center delivers 'reality-based' information to the developer or administrator that reads as if it were written by a peer. Here are some links to samples:
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Technical Publications
- Vitria BusinessWare Connector Programming Guide, a key component of the Connector SDK. Worked with sample code for an application integration product (CORBA-based, Java and C++ implementation). Rewrote Connector Programming Guide and related documentation (Installation Guide, Release Note, documentation for an EBank Sample) for BusinessWare Connector SDK.
- Vitria WAP Connector Configuration Guide, Installation Guide, and Release Notes.
- Securant Technologies ClearTrust Installation and Configuration Guide, Policy Administration Guide, and Developer's Guide. (Securant was acquired by RSA Security in August, 2001.)
- Tandem NonStop Software Solutions Design Guide. Provides technical and conceptual information about developing applications for Tandem’s NonStop Software for Windows NT Server platform. The Solutions Design Guide was the key element of Tandem’s NonStop Software SDK, aimed at getting developers to start creating applications for NonStop clusters of Windows NT Servers. Includes an overview of clustering technology; multi-tier applications; transaction processing; Web-oriented transaction processing; and related development technologies, including Java, ActiveX (COM/DCOM), and CORBA/IIOP (1997).
- ODBC Tutorial. A walk-through of a sample console application (written in C), that uses ODBC functions to interact with a SQL-92 compliant database.
- Windows NT Server Cookbook. A 110-page step-by-step administrator’s guide for an enterprise-wide Windows NT Server network (table of contents only).
Position Papers, White Papers
- Business Services Architecture: The Integration of Software Components and Network Services Infrastructure. A position paper for the Network Applications Consortium that includes discussion of two-tier, three-tier, and service-oriented architectures, and distributed component-based application development models, specifically, CORBA/IIOP/JavaBeans (as implemented by Oracle, Sun, IBM, Netscape, and others) and Microsoft COM/DCOM/ActiveX technologies.
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Enterprise-wide Security: An Overview. An introduction to security basics from an enterprise-wide perspective.
- Enterprise-wide Security: Authentication and Single Sign-on. A position paper that delves into costs and benefits of enterprise-wide security mechanisms and single sign-on solutions available (in 1996).
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Enterprise-wide Directory Services. A position paper that made the case for directory services as a core part of the enterprise infrastructure, and which evangelized LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol) as the approach of choice.
Writing Credits
Editing and Re-writing Samples
- Setting Up Linux with FireWire-Based Shared Storage for Oracle9i RAC [ Oracle Technology Network | Jan 2003 ]
- Clustering with FireWire [ Oracle Technology Network | Dec 2002 ]
- Building Mobile Apps (Java Servlets) with Oracle8i Lite's Web-to-go (rewrite) [ Oracle Magazine | Jan 2000 ]
- Groupware Tutorial (rewrite) [ Corporate Computing | November 1992 ]
- Apple’s VITAL Statistics for Enterprise Architecture [ Corporate Computing | October 1992 ]
- Pocket Opticals: 3.5-inch Magneto-Optical Drives [ MacUser | July 1992 ]
- 5.25-Inch Magneto-Optical Mechanisms [ MacUser | July 1992 ]
- 3.5-Inch Gigabyte Hard-Disk Mechanisms [ MacUser | July 1992 ]
- Blasting Off: CPU Accelerators [ MacUser | June 1992 ]
- Database Strategies: Relational Databases [ MacUser | June 1992 ]
- A Mac Color Primer (rewrite) [ MacUser | May 1992 ]
- Chasing Rainbows: Accelerated-Video Cards [ MacUser | May 1992 ]
- Stamp of Approval: Mac E-mail Systems [ MacUser | March 1992 ]
- Practically Perfect Printing: High-resolution PostScript Printers [ MacUser | February 1991 ]
- Less is More: Digital Audiotape [ MacUser | October 1991 ]
- Mac. DOS and VAX File Servers [ MacUser | June 1991 ]
- Fast Full-Featured Fax Modems [ MacUser | May 1991 ]
- EtherTalk-to-LocalTalk Routers [ MacUser | April 1991 ]
- Building a Better Network with EtherTalk-to-LocalTalk Routers [ MacUser | June 1990 ]
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