90 countries available on GTT and still growing...

Global Trade Tracker (GTT), the comprehensive online source for tracking global trade statistics, offers data for 90 countries -- and more countries will be added in the very near future!

GTT Analytics and new countries available!

Global Trade Tracker (GTT), the comprehensive online source for tracking global trade statistics, offers now data for 88 countries!

And next to the huge amount of available data, "GTT Analytics" was recently released.
GTT Analytics is now on hand to help you to interact with GTT's more than 4 billion records. Everything you need to know is available on one page.

The new Analytics interface allows you to interrogate  GTT's >4 billion records interactively, with searching and results all on the same page. 

Users can: 

- use the same user-defined Country and Commodity groups in the same way as on the New Search page

- define the report parameters using a look ahead at every stage

- see aggregate figures for several reporting countries in one go

- display the report in any combination of Reporter, Partner, HS Code or Time axis

- move up and down the HS coding structure

- see total imports and exports of any country

- compare previous years’ trade

- remove intra trade for any group of reporting countries (not just EU member groups)

- easily convert Values into different currencies and Quantities into different units

- export what is displayed into Excel

Number of available countries on Global Trade Tracker (GTT) is steadily increasing

Global Trade Tracker (GTT), the single most comprehensive online source for tracking global trade statistics, offers now data for 86 countries!

New country available on Global Trade Tracker (GTT)

Global Trade Tracker (GTT), the single most comprehensive online source for tracking global trade statistics, offers now data for 80 countries!

...in 91 Tagen um die Welt...

...und schon wieder sind wir zurück - hier gibts eine kleine Auswahl der insgesamt - horribile dictu - 2'900 Bilder

und die Zusammenfassung des absolut fantastischen Solmar V Liveaboard Trips

In 91 Tagen um die Welt...

more to come soon... :)
am 1.1. gehts los:
L.A, Baja California (Solmar V), Franz. Polynesien, Neukaledonien, Fiji, New Zealand, Honkong, Shanghai, ZRH... 

Global Trade Tracker: Trade information that works for your business!

Global Trade Tracker, the single most comprehensive online source for tracking global trade statistics is proud to offer 73 countries now which report to GTT.

Global Trade Tracker

...contains now 69 countries in total:
http://www.globaltradetracker.com

Zen Innovations AG in the media

» Newsletter der WFB (Wirtschaftsförderung Bern):

Zen Innovations at the SIIA Global Information Industry Summit 2008

Zen Innovations AG participates at the SIIA Global Information Industry Summit 2008 (9-11 September, London) and presents it's product Global Trader Tracker

Zen Innovations launches Global Trade Tracker

Global Trade Tracker (GTT) - a product provided by Zen Innovations - offers powerful web-based access to original trade statistics from the world's principal trading countries, giving you a clear objective picture of the trade flows you need to know about. Lightening fast updating, flexible output options and tailored payment plans makes Global Trade Tracker the service of choice for Business Analysts worldwide.


GTT gives you:

• Authoritative, official trade data for 56 countries (and growing) around the world
• 8 figure Harmonised System (HS) codes (10 figure where available) allowing a high degree of granularity
• Easy-to-use, intuitive search interface, combining pull-down precision with google-like natural language
• Figures presented in all the major currencies and in the units of your choice
• Reports can be downloaded into your data formats of choice, including Excel and XML
• Mirroring feature enables you to deduce trade flows from key countries to those countries whose data is not yet included
• Regional trade groups (eg EU, NAFTA, ASEAN), giving users fast, comprehensive data on a country's main trading partners
• The ability to create accurate, timely, customized reports in seconds for any commercially traded product in the world

Use GTT to:

• Monitor trends in trade flows
• Assess market share and track competition
• Track the movement of products around the globe
• Identify potential trading partners
• Monitor price fluctuations

Zen Innovations AG gegründet

Nun ist es endlich soweit:
Zen Innovations AG würde gestern offiziell gegründet und ist im Handelsregister eingetragen!

JPA

Hail to JPA! Finally a usable and straightforward solution.
The first steps with non-EJB3 JPA (i.e. the j2se approach) with the following setup were more than promising:
. tomcat 6.0.10
. toplink (very nice: you have to use only 2 jar files)
. switching between postgresql 8.1.8 and oracle 10.2.0.3.0

an absolute nice-to-have feature is the DALI eclipse plugin which is very helpful to start with JPA. The only problem: It does not seem very stable and my eclipse started to more or less crash at randomly intervals - what helped quite a bit was increasing the JVM settings for eclipse
(-Xms -Xmn XX:PermSpace)

fairly good books (both from apress):

- Beginning EJB 3 Application Development: From Novice to Professional
- Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API

mod_jk.so 1.2.19 for Solaris Sparc 10

I just recompiled the latest mod_jk module for Apache httpd for Solaris 10 with gcc 3.4.3, Sun ld and CFLAGS=-O2.

Find the zip file containing the binaries here:
jk-1.2.19-solaris10-sparc.zip

Supported versions:

• Apache httpd 2.0.55 and higher.
• Apache httpd 2.2.3 (and higher...)

the curse of frameworks

Are frameworks and apis like Hibernate, Spring, Tapestry etc. really worth the effort to learn, to implement, to use etc. or are we - once we commited ourselves to a certain product - simply the hostages of this certain framework? (...which was choosen because it is/was hype, it sounds good on our CV's, because we were bored with what we had at hand or whatever malicious reason led us to a certain decision).

Is the alternative, i.e. using what we have and what comes with the core (e.g. plain j2se, j2ee, jdbc, jsp), not sexy enough or is it too complicated to use, resp. are the promises made in conjunction with the different frameworks (easy, fast dev cycles, bla bla bla) too temptating and we have the hope that the lack of methodology and proper sw-design can be replaced with a good framework?


ok, my actual frustration with all the hyped frameworks originates from:
- updating an app from tapestry v3.x to 4.x which isn't that easy and straightforward and requires a lot of changes, TESTING TESTING TESTING etc. etc.
- trying to use/adapt hibernate on an approx. 15-20 year old db2 legacy database (tables without primary keys, composite keys etc.etc.) which makes it extremly hard if not impossible to use hibernate - and very easy if you go with a simple (but boilerplate code burden) jdbc approach.
- the dependency you inject into projects: there are still some apps around which have deep in their guts WebMacro and it is almost impossible to get rid of it w/o rewriting the whole UI part.

mod_jk.so 1.2.18 for Solaris

I just recompiled the latest mod_jk module for Apache httpd for Solaris 10 with gcc 3.4.3 and CFLAGS=-O2.

mod_jk for Apache httpd 2.2.3

mod_jk for Apache httpd 2.0.55

mod_jk.so 1.2.15 for Solaris

I just recompiled the latest mod_jk module for Apache httpd for Solaris 10 with gcc 3.4.3 and Apache 2.2.2, CFLAGS=-O2.
mod_jk.so-1.2.15

jk modules for other version can be retrieved here

ApacheCon Europe 2006, Dublin

more info can be found here ApacheCon Europe....
I'm currently too lazy to write comprehensive reports and the quarter final just started as well....