Citrite Two-Six-Niner-Niner
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Citrix Printing: Brush up on the basic best practices
From an article on Brian Madden's website, a really good primer about printing. Some of the recomendations could start a holy war, especially for those of you who use www.printingsupport.com or www.dabcc.com. But regardless of what you use as your base to start configuring your print environment it is a good read. Citrix Printing: Brush up on the basic best practices: "Being around Citrix for a while, one of the things that you’ll notice and continues to hold true is that printing is still one of the biggest challenges. With each release, Citrix touts that printing is better. However, reality sets in and you soon find out that you’re in the same boat again and you’re forced back to old school printing configurations.
Don’t be mistaken, the EMF printing model of Citrix Presentation Server 4 is a good move. It has given back your server’s horsepower from the days of when a single logon or print job would spike your processors, or even worse, clog the user’s virtual channel. Most of the problems occur when administrators expect that printing will work out-of-the-box and are unfamiliar with how to properly set it up. Further, many of the helpful printing sites seemed to have ventured off topic, adding additional content and making it difficult to find a clear, concise, guided approach in how to set up printing.
Once again, if you’ve been around Citrix for a while, you should know these best practices and how to set up printing, but a re-fresher never hurts." ¶ 11:11 PM
Don’t be mistaken, the EMF printing model of Citrix Presentation Server 4 is a good move. It has given back your server’s horsepower from the days of when a single logon or print job would spike your processors, or even worse, clog the user’s virtual channel. Most of the problems occur when administrators expect that printing will work out-of-the-box and are unfamiliar with how to properly set it up. Further, many of the helpful printing sites seemed to have ventured off topic, adding additional content and making it difficult to find a clear, concise, guided approach in how to set up printing.
Once again, if you’ve been around Citrix for a while, you should know these best practices and how to set up printing, but a re-fresher never hurts." ¶ 11:11 PM
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Download details: SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC SP3
Download details: SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC SP3: "The Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Driver for JDBC™ is a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides highly scalable and reliable connectivity for the enterprise Java environment. This driver provides JDBC access to SQL Server 2000 through any Java-enabled applet, application, or application server."
¶ 3:41 PM
Healthcare Identity Patient Management Software Single Sign-On CCOW
Healthcare Identity Patient Management Software Single Sign-On CCOW
Lately I've been hanging out with these folks.
They do really cool stuff that is based on the CCOW standard. Which coincidentally has nothing to do with the See-Cow-go-moo standard.
Anyway, Carefx says they do this:
"Carefx is the only provider of an open and scalable platform that aids clinicians with sleek, intuitive and flexible access to patient information and satisfies IT imperatives by fully leveraging legacy investments within an open architecture. Some call this Context Management or Identity and Access Management."
So if you are looking at a patient's record, and switch to another patient, then your MRI Imaging app, meds app, and other records apps all switch to view the records for the same patient. Way-hip. So hip, you would have difficulty seeing over your pelvis... so hip.
2399-EndTrans ¶ 11:41 AM
Lately I've been hanging out with these folks.
They do really cool stuff that is based on the CCOW standard. Which coincidentally has nothing to do with the See-Cow-go-moo standard.
Anyway, Carefx says they do this:
"Carefx is the only provider of an open and scalable platform that aids clinicians with sleek, intuitive and flexible access to patient information and satisfies IT imperatives by fully leveraging legacy investments within an open architecture. Some call this Context Management or Identity and Access Management."
So if you are looking at a patient's record, and switch to another patient, then your MRI Imaging app, meds app, and other records apps all switch to view the records for the same patient. Way-hip. So hip, you would have difficulty seeing over your pelvis... so hip.
2399-EndTrans ¶ 11:41 AM
Well, my job change can now be mentioned on a blog...
Thanks to everyone's favorite CEO, MarkT; I can mention where I work.
I am a citrite. That's right on April 1st of 2004 (still not sure if that was an April Fools Joke on Citrix or me...) I joined Citrix.
So, just to be clear, I love my job and the people I work with. I just never mentioned it here.
Remember the disclaimer though:
"The views expressed here are mine alone and have not been authorized by, and do not necessarily reflect the views of, Citrix."
But confidentially, I have found that most Citrite's like themselves, other citrites and Citrix. (Don't tell anyone you heard it from me.)
Even though this is 2 years and five months late. I just thought that I would let you all know.
And for those of you who already knew, don't worry, I'm not going anywhere.
Citrite two-six-niner-niner, End Transmission. ¶ 11:13 AM
I am a citrite. That's right on April 1st of 2004 (still not sure if that was an April Fools Joke on Citrix or me...) I joined Citrix.
So, just to be clear, I love my job and the people I work with. I just never mentioned it here.
Remember the disclaimer though:
"The views expressed here are mine alone and have not been authorized by, and do not necessarily reflect the views of, Citrix."
But confidentially, I have found that most Citrite's like themselves, other citrites and Citrix. (Don't tell anyone you heard it from me.)
Even though this is 2 years and five months late. I just thought that I would let you all know.
And for those of you who already knew, don't worry, I'm not going anywhere.
Citrite two-six-niner-niner, End Transmission. ¶ 11:13 AM
Citrite 239
Really great post about AGE. Check it out. When Citrix came out with the concept or Smart Access sometimes the rubber never hit the road... so to speak.
This is what Smart Access is all about... at least in an ICA session.
Citrite 239: "You probably have heard by now that Access Gateway includes an Endpoint Analysis feature (EPA), and that you can enable or disable access to resources based on the results of EPA scans. But one side of this story that I don't feel is told often or clearly enough is how Presentation Server can respond to the EPA scans by showing or hiding certain applications, or by enabling/disabling ICA virtual channels." ¶ 11:11 AM
This is what Smart Access is all about... at least in an ICA session.
Citrite 239: "You probably have heard by now that Access Gateway includes an Endpoint Analysis feature (EPA), and that you can enable or disable access to resources based on the results of EPA scans. But one side of this story that I don't feel is told often or clearly enough is how Presentation Server can respond to the EPA scans by showing or hiding certain applications, or by enabling/disabling ICA virtual channels." ¶ 11:11 AM
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Anna's Mambo Tips - Mambo - A PHP & MySQL Content Management System
Anna's Mambo Tips - Mambo - A PHP & MySQL Content Management System: "Mambo makes the difficult parts of building and running a high-powered web site easy. That’s why so many people use it! But if you have never used a content management system before, it also seems to make a lot of easy things difficult. These tips are designed for someone who doesn’t know anything about content management systems. I’d never heard of one before installing Mambo."
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