Book: Grid Computing for Developers

Vladimir Silva, a former IBM software engineer, releases a book named "". He wrote this book to help technical guys understand grid computing faster than looking information around the net.

This book might be worth for enterprises that want to explore how grid look like in action. Anyway, it is not suitable for manager to learn himself. If you are managers, buy it, give it to the most excellent technician, wait for a few days, and then let him give a short introduction. Good luck!

eu and gb flag for IP to Country Module

Thanks to Larry. He has just produced the missing flags, eu.png and gb.png, and sent them to me. eu.png has been resized to 14x14 while gb.png is just a copy of uk.png. Now ip2cc should have all flags.

Final Fantasy XII: Kiss Me Goodbye Trailer

All you might have ever heard about Final Fantasy Saga. It is a kind of Japanese Starwars with so long story in game history. The upcoming release is Final Fantasy XII. My most impression about this game is its graphics. If USA has Pixar, Japan has Squaresoft. I don’t know much about PS, PS2, XBox, or any other game console. However, I’m so sure that all movies in each game are not rendered from wired frame in real-time. This is just my guess. All movies must be pre-rendered on render farm. The result of these games is showing the power of supercomputing. Please take a look at the latest trailer of FF XII.

How to upload smartforms from PC

The SAP system provides service for upload smartforms with system as follows:

Method 1: Upload and create new form

  • Go to transaction ’SMARTFORMS’
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  • Go to menu Utilities(M) -> Upload Form for download form from PC.
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  • System popup windows for input new form name and select img69.
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Yahoo! UI Library: Another free implementation f AJAX

AJAX is nowadays common feature of modern web pages. I’m not sure when it begun but  shown the power of AJAX through the intuitive and impressive user interface. Technically, AJAX is just an inter-operation of web browser and web server through a JavaScript function. That means web developers just want a good JavaScript to shield the incompatible JavaScript APIs to make it work cross browser at least for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.

How to download smartforms to PC

The SAP system provides service for download smartforms with system as follows:

  • Go to transaction ’SMARTFORMS’
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  • Go to menu Utilities(M) -> Download Form for download form to PC.
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  • System popup windows for input form name and select img69.
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