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Immutable Infrastructure with Ansible and Packer

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Immutable Infrastructure with Ansible and Packer
At Codeship we run immutable servers which we internally call Checkbot. These are the machines responsible for running your tests, deploying your software and reporting the results back to our web application. Of course, there are constant changes to …
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Red Hat Continues to Drive Open Security Standards; OpenSCAP Receives …
A synthesis of interoperable specifications based on in-depth community collaboration, SCAP provides an overarching security checklist that all security vendors supporting the standard can utilize. The standard defines common operations for security …
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FIRM INTRODUCES “INFORMATION INTERFACE” for LOCAL MARKETS.

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(PRWEB) August 7, 2004

NASHVILLE, TN (PRWEB): August, 7, 2004 Tip O’Neil said all politics are local and at NashvillesNews they would add “news” to the list. The company’s web application is a combination newspaper, blog, wiki and publicly agent geared toward metropolitan markets. According to the company the application gives users a comprehensive overview of all relevant local and national news on a single page updated more than 300 times a day. In addition to traditional news, sports, weather the application is providing individuals, groups and businesses free access to advanced publicity generation and blog functions.

Dubbed a “metablog” with local market orientation the developers are betting that people will turn to NashvillesNews.com when seeking timely information on a wide range of subjects including local politics, hard news, entertainment, events and even missing pets.

According to company spokesperson John Bransford “It’s a natural extension of the new XML messaging technologies. The tools were developed for cross communication and promotion among the rapidly expanding universe of new blogs. Blogging is about communicating your words, thoughts and ideas and these new protocols are all about getting the word out or making your existence known. We’ve taken these tools and brought then together under one roof. The aggregate result of the applications use of blogging XML-RPC has been to amplify the effectiveness and extend the range of the tools.“

“The power of our own application didn’t sink in till about midway through the development process we noticed that a lot of our internal memos and groupware postings were showing up in common web searches a few hours later. It took us a few days to figure out how it was happening.”

“RSS (really simple syndication) was not the first messaging protocol on the net but it was the template for blog messaging and has been followed by Trackback, Pingback, Waypath, Delicious, and more. According to Bransford “these blog cross messaging protocols are doing more than just putting out a digital “open for business” sign. They’re publishing meaning by giving the words context and relevance which are the high grade fuels for search engine spiders. This is the stuff that’s begun to set the web in motion by helping the web content describe itself. Not surprisingly that is the precise reason XML (extensible markup language) was developed to gradually replace html.”

“It’s effective as the Howard Dean for president people can confirm. Dean Space used the exact same tool called Drupal.”

“A relative handful of traditional news publishers are using these available XML publishing technologies. I would add that no one including ourselves is using them to their greatest potential. We’re working on changing that but you have to start somewhere. Our digital media publishing tool is in an alpha state at NashvillesNews.net and Musicfeed.net. It’s doing for audio – i.e. music what we’ve done for words or at least it’s getting there.”

“The next release due in September will highlight relevant blog content as much as news publication reporting. There’re an incredible number of excellent blogs with content as good as or better than that found in most local publications. Our intent is to offer through the user interface those blogs that are pertinent or just interesting to the community.”

“The overall game plan is to attach relevance to the content – words, audio or video — and make it useable and accessible through the web.”

For additional information contact: John Bransford

CONTACT INFORMATION:

John Bransford

NashvillesNews

615.403-4044

http://www.NashvillesNews.com







Public is Invited to Use Web, iPhone and Android Apps as Part of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Geo Inventory Challenge

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Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) February 08, 2012

Azavea, an award-winning geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, announces a crowd-sourcing contest to locate automated external defibrillators (AED) and the release of a web application and two free mobile apps, part of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvanias MyHeartMap Challenge. The applications are now available for the public to participate in the MyHeartMap Challenge which will run for six weeks from January 31 to Tuesday, March 13. In an effort to build a national database of AEDs and increase AED awareness, the Penn Medicines MyHeartMap is turning to the public to gather as much information as possible about AEDs accessible to the public.

Though almost non-existent a decade ago, automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) are now all around us, in airports, schools, gyms, and workplaces. These devices can save lives as they deliver electric shocks to victims of cardiac arrests. This is most effective in the first minutes after someone collapses. Yet, there is no comprehensive map of such devices available to the public. As a result, AEDs are often not used when they are most needed either because witnesses of a cardiac arrest incident do not know there might be an AED close by or that they should be looking for one.

The Penn Medicine MyHeartMap team is initiating the MyHeartMap Challenge project by encouraging the public, armed with the web and mobile applications built by Azavea, to locate and photograph as many AEDs in Philadelphia as possible. Both the apps and participation in the contest are free. Participants will be able to geocode their photos via the mobile app available on the iPhone or Android — and register information about the AEDs such as manufacturer and condition of the device. In addition to the mobile apps, participants can enter data and check their status in the contest at the MyHeartMap website: http://philly.myheartmap.org/.

MyHeartMap Challenge participants can register as individuals or as teams. The individual or team that will find the most AEDs will win $ 10,000. Other participants will win $ 50 if they are the first to identify one of the designated golden AEDs. The MyHeartMap team is being coy about the precise number of golden AEDs, but has announced that there will be 20 to 200 of them. The data collected will be used to create an updated database of locations of all public AEDs in the Philadelphia region with a person’s GPS coordinates to help them locate the nearest AED during an emergency. The project is part of a larger ongoing collaboration between faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washington and is modeled after the DARPA Network Challenge, a crowd-sourcing experiment in which social media users raced to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations throughout the United States. It is the teams hope that this challenge will lead to a nation-wide contest.

The MyHeartMap Challenge project is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Physio Control; the Medtronic Foundation; the HeartRescue Project; Zoll; Cardiac Science; Philips and the University of Pennsylvania.

For more information about the MyHeartMap Challenge, visit: http://www.myheartmap.org. Participants can use a web application available at: http://philly.myheartmap.org/ The smart phone apps can also be downloaded for free for the iPhone at http://itunes.apple.com/app/id492442372?mt=8 and from the Android Marketplace at https://market.android.com/details?id=edu.upenn.medicine.myheartmap.

About Azavea – Azavea is an award-winning geospatial analysis (GIS) software development firm specializing in the creation of location-based web and mobile software as well as geospatial analysis services. Azavea is a certified B Corporation that applies geographic data and technology to promote the emergence of more dynamic, vibrant, and sustainable communities. Each of Azaveas projects, products and pro bono engagements showcases this commitment. Find more at http://www.azavea.com.

If you would like more information about Azavea or to schedule an interview with Robert Cheetham, Azavea CEO and President, please contact Amy Trahey at (215) 558 6184 or e-mail atrahey(at)azavea(dot)com.

About MyHeartMap Challenge The Philadelphia MyHeartMap Challenge is the first of many city Challenges, followed by a nation-wide contest. Data collected for the contest will be used for a U-Penn research study evaluating AED mapping and database development. It is the initiative of a group of health professionals dedicated to saving lives and expanding the horizons of theory and practicethis interdisciplinary team has come together to engage and challenge the Philadelphia community to improve access to critical life-saving technologies. By harnessing the increasing reach of new media they hope to bring innovation to address an important public health disparity. Find more at http://www.myheartmap.org

For more information about the MyHeartMap Challenge, contact the team at myheartmapchallenge(at)uphs(dot)upenn(dot)edu

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