JFreeChart is a free Java class library for generating charts, including:

* pie charts (2D and 3D);
* bar charts (regular and stacked, with an optional 3D effect);
* line and area charts;
* scatter plots and bubble charts;
* time series, high/low/open/close charts and candle stick charts;
* combination charts;
* Pareto charts;
* Gantt charts;
* wind plots, meter charts and symbol charts;
* wafer map charts;

www.jfree.org - JFreeChart

Nagios� is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external "plugins" which return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser.

Nagios is like those expensive visual SNMP monitors... but its free.

Nagios

So these are my notes on setting up Nagios 1.2 on Mac OS X Server 10.3.5. If nothing else, it'll add to the Google Database. Nagios, for those unfamiliar with it, is an open source network monitoring application, ala Intermapper, or Lansurveyor. (Although if you don't know what Nagios is to begin with, you're going to want to check out the Nagios site before you do all the work I talk about here.) Note, this is not with MySQL support compiled in, since that's going away in favor of an n-tier structure. There are a few requirements for Nagios, namely zlib, libpng, libjpeg, and GD lib. if you have current versions of them already, you're golden. otherwise, follow the appropriate steps (If you're installing this on a stock Server setup, you don't have them). You also need Apple's Developer Tools, otherwise you have nothing to compile with. All of this is from my experience installing this on a G4 Tower running Server 10.3.5 and now into the breach...

Nagios is great. Here's how to set it up on OS X, instead of the typical Linux.

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Here's all the practical information you need to organize, finance and run a new enterprise. Start-Up & Emerging Companies: Planning, Financing & Operating the Successful Business brings you the legal and business savvy of leading experts from law, investment banking and venture capital firms. You'll find extensive coverage of significant topics, such as: the venture financing process and negotiating strategies; corporate, securities and tax laws; the interplay between business and legal considerations; limited liability companies; strategic alliances; employee benefit plans; stock options; contracts; accounting procedures; intellectual property strategies; and developments in Internet law and e-commerce.

Dunno if this is good or not, but...

Start-Up & Emerging Companies: Planning, Financing and Operating the Successful Business, With Forms on Disk - LawCatalog.com

EclipseCon is the premier technical and user conference focusing on the power of the Eclipse platform.

From implementers to users, and everyone in between, if you are using, building, or considering Eclipse, EclipseCon is the conference you need to attend.
March 20-23, 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center

Thou shalt develop fruitful RCP (Rich Client PlatforM) applications. Thou shalt budget this conference into thine tech budget.

EclipseCon 2006, Santa Clara Convention Center, March 20-23, 2006

Castor is an Open Source data binding framework for Java[tm]. It's the shortest path between Java objects, XML documents and relational tables. Castor provides Java-to-XML binding, Java-to-SQL persistence, and more.

Bind thine objects to thine database, then marshall them and achieve persistence, you foul nafe!

The Castor Project

This page is intended to give somebody interested in GEF most of the things he has to know to get started. This includes a description of the purpose of the library, a global view of the library with descriptions of the different components and how to use them, and some practical guidelines to build a simple GEF editor. At least that's what I have tried to do. I wrote most of this for myself a few months ago but I think this is better here than on my personal hard drive. Maybe it could be useful to you.

eclipsewiki - GEF Description

Wondering what your pre-money valuation will be if a VC ever puts a term sheet on the table? Valuing a startup is intrinsically different from valuing established companies. Because of the high level of risk and often little or no revenues, traditional quantitative valuation methods like P/E comparables or discounting free cash flows are of little use. Startup valuations are largely determined based on qualitative attributes.

We've been told by several investors that our valuation model produces reasonably good valuations. Of course, every situation is different, so your mileage may vary.

Answer the following 25 questions, and we'll calculate an approximate range for you. For each of the following questions, choose the answer that most closely describes your situation. If you don't know the answer, select the first choice.

High Tech Startup Valuation Estimator

That's it. That's all we're looking for. Memorize that. Recite it to yourself before you go to bed every night. Our goal is to hire people with aptitude, not a particular skill set. Any skill set that people can bring to the job will be technologically obsolete in a couple of years, anyway, so it's better to hire people that are going to be able to learn any new technology rather than people who happen to know SQL programming right this minute.

Joel.

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The role of the enteric nervous system is to manage every aspect of digestion, from the esophagus to the stomach, small intestine and colon. The second brain, or little brain, accomplishes all that with the same tools as the big brain, a sophisticated nearly self-contained network of neural circuitry, neurotransmitters and proteins.

The independence is a function of the enteric nervous system's complexity.

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