December 2004

Southeast Asia Tsunami – How can you help

This post is a modest contribution to the relief efforts by providing a link to the The Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami blog for “News and information about resources, aid, donations and volunteer efforts.” And a shortlist of links to Aid Groups provided by CNN. Today, the death toll is at 77000+ Our condolences for those who lost their...

Bibliotheca Alexandria – an experience

My wife and I have been to Bibliotheca Alexandria seeking a quiet place to work at and read. Well, it wasn’t as we’d hoped for. First, we had to leave out belongings at the safekeeping (even my wife’s handbag). They told me to leave my laptop outside, but after convincing them that it was essential to take it inside...

jBPM Sample Process in Tomcat

Deploying jBPM sample application (payraiseprocess application) to Tomcat – my experience with some tricky issues: Added the jar files (commons-fileupload.jar, commons-validator.jar, commons-digester.jar, jakarta-oro.jar) to jBPM application library (WEB-INF\lib) or to <jbpm-directory>\lib if you’re going to perform a build (required after Hibernate mapping modification below). I got “Cannot find ActionMappings or ActionFormBeans collection” error when calling the jbpm application without...

Google Suggests.

The coolest web tool I’ve seen in a while. Google Suggests works by suggesting some search results WHILE YOU ARE TYPING search keywords (without refreshing the page). Thanks go to Chris Justus from Server Side Guy for pointing out the service and its internals. The google code uses an XMLHttp object to make calls back to google, and executing...

Open-source

Couple of days ago, I had a very refreshing talk with some bright brains about Opensource (and other issues). It was interesting to meet up with ppl who appreciate Opensource as a mean of doing business, and as a way of (feasibly) creating reliable solutions. I’m looking forward to more talks (I’ll keep readers posted).

… and Eclipse again

Despite that I like Netbeans (with also emotional attachement as it is the first IDE I’d worked with), I switched back to Eclipse after managing to get Lomboz JSP editor working (It worked on Eclipse 3.0 with EMF installed, it previously refrained to work on 3.1M3 with “Unable to Create Part” error). Some of the reasons that made me...