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Top 10 Best Practices Using VMware VI and vSphere SDK (part 1)

January 28th, 2010 1 comment

VMware vSphere (as known as VI in earlier versions) SDK includes a comprehensive set of APIs managing the vSphere CloudOS. It can be used to build different types of applications: standalone GUI applications, vSphere Client plug-in, utility tools, Web applications, server applications. It is becoming increasingly important as more and more enterprises become 100% virtualized with vSphere.

Get your hands dirty with self paced labs at PEX 2010

January 28th, 2010 2 comments

Besides the talks on VMware APIs, two self paced labs are there for you to try out the vSphere SDK and PowerShell at PEX. More details are quoted in later part.

As a bonus, you will get a chance to learn VI Java API in the SDK lab. Thanks to VMware TAM Alton Yu for making this happen! I will be there when I am not presenting my talk “Architecting Your Applications for VMware Cloud”, or helping on the BOF, genius bar, etc.

How does LinkedIn.com do the search?

January 28th, 2010 No comments

Search has been a hot topic since Google successfully monetized it with advertising business model. Besides general Web content search like Google does, there are many other types of searches needed for other Internet companies.

LinkedIn.com, with which most of us have created profiles, offers search capabilities based criteria like keywords, names, location, industry, companies currently with and before, school, etc. Because what Linkedin.com has is well structured data, you and I expect it to do a better job than Web searches. In fact, it does.