A couple of slides to show the architecture and new features of Sun VDI 3.1:

// republished by Tanweer Ahmad
// backlink from Sun System News, 3-Nov-2009

Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.1 (VDI 3.1) is in early-access. Please check out the new version and help us to get the missing bits and pixels into the right spots.

> Quick Overview
> Preliminary Documentation
> Announcement and Download

Quelle: www.hamburgs-stadtteile.de

Am Freitag 11.9. laden Silpion IT Solutions und der 13. Stock zur Sommerparty ein. Beginn 12 Uhr Mittags! bis Open-End.

• Event bei Xing
• Alternativ über den 13. Stock

Sun Ray 2, Sun Ray 2FS, and the Sun Ray 270, together with the Sun Ray Connector for VMware View Manager 1.1, are once again certified for VMware View. The latest tests against VMware View 3.1.1 run smoothly.

Sun Ray Connector for VMware View Manager 1.1

Do you notice the difference? No? Good. Good design is when you do not notice it. You probably haven't recognized that the prompt icon has changed compared to the icon that was used for nearly a decade.

The former icon still had the original Sun purple on a beveled button (the latter a usability issue in its own, because there is nothing to click). And even though the Sun Ray 1 is still on duty at many sites, it has long been replaced by a couple of successor models. Hence the icon of the tilted thin client device is not appropriate anymore.

The new set of status icons will be part of the upcoming SRSS 4.2 release. The entire set is presented and explained at SRSS Troubleshooting Wiki.

Thanks to Jörg for the good cooperation, and welcome to the blogosphere.

Get ready for the World Usability Day 2009. Although there is some time left until Nov-12, the CfP for the event in Hamburg is out (submission deadline is July-31). What I really like this year is the attempt to have a variety of session formats and the common theme of sustainability. As Bill Buxton said in his wonderful closing keynote at CHI08, there is no contradiction between design and green. Now I should count the Watts that Sun VDI is saving with the current paradigm shift from PCs to desktop virtualization.

> Call for Participation

My last working day at Sun. After my vacation there won't be Sun anymore. Strange feelings, like the cosmonauts who launched from the USSR and when they came back their country was gone – well, sort of. At least I take this as a good omen, and the work on VDI 3.1 is in full swing.

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In a nutshell – You know digg? Now tweetmeme collects and counts all the links that are posted to twitter. And the little badge top right of this posting says how often this blog posting has been referred to.  Or you can click the green retweet button to simply create a simple tweet referring to this article. </nutshell>

TweetMeme Button tells how to add such a badge to your pages. For my Roller blog I had to edit the _day template and add the following code to the heading of each blog posting:

<div class="tweetmeme">
  <script type="text/javascript">
    tweetmeme_url = '$url.entry($entry.anchor)';
    tweetmeme_source = 'mprove';
##  tweetmeme_style = 'compact';  
  </script>  
  <script
    type="text/javascript"
    src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js">
  </script>
</div>

The source parameter is your twitter name that is used for the composed tweet: 'RT @name title link (via @tweetmeme)'. Then the tweetmeme class is used to move the div to the right. It is defined in the stylesheet file:

.tweetmeme {
  float: right;
  margin-bottom: 3px;
  margin-left: 3px;
  }

Happy retweeting.

PS_ already adopted by Think Thin, GullFOSS, Student Views, Reviews Interactive

Sun Microsystems is sponsoring a party for students studying in fields related to computer science (informatik), including any computing field, mathematics, life sciences, physical sciences, earth sciences, and just about any field that involves simulation, number crunching, and/or data processing (which is pretty much all of them).

The main reason for the party is to have fun, so tell your friends and come on down.  The only requirement to get in is a student ID.  The other reasons for the party are to promote the International Supercomputing '09 Conference happening that week, to promote Sun Microsystems technologies, and to give students an opportunity to talk directly with Sun employees about whatever.

more info and (free) registration

Here are some more impressions from Sun VDI 3 at JavaOne. <via the singing fat bloke>

This is big – more than 20.000 personal virtual machines are waiting for the attendees of JavaOne and CommunityOne at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

See also VDI 3 @ JavaOne on Dirk's blog and the background story on the desktop virtualization wiki.

When Peter approached me a few weeks ago to work on the UI design for the next release of Sweet, I had just started on twitter in order to understand what all the fuzz is about. Well, I cannot say I get it, but at least I got some interesting links that I had missed otherwise.

Now Sweet is our internal microblogging service, based on open source laconi.ca. You can try out laconica at identi.ca or take a look at the before state_

It is not possible to significantly change a project in mid air – but this is exactly what I did by tweaking the CSS and a few images to create a pleasant and inviting design for Sweet. Note the logo (done with creatr.cc), the color scheme, the layout, the text counter, the tabs, the font changes, and the tag cloud in the after image. BTW_ the bird in the tree indicates that a tweet is also visible to the public on twitter.

Paying attention to the 'design details' can even improve the usability of such a project. A professional design increases the perceived quality and therewith the user experience. Since the relaunch we have more users and we even figured out that there was another installation of laconica running inside Sun -- they are now planing the migration to Sweet.

All this took me less than a week. I learned a lot about dirty CSS hacks, and got in touch with 2 nice colleagues at Sun whom I never met in person. Peter was a kind of project lead, and Olof the engineer behind the curtain. And guess what, our main communication tool was... Sweet!

> internal URL: http://do.sfbay.sun.com/sweet/