September 2005

RPG IV Training

I’m off to Cairo for some RPG training. Although, I’m not quite convinced with the language, but it is always nice to see how things perform. Besides… it’s kind of a company training policy.

Rails Likes and Dislikes

This is my impressions about Rails after rolling out an Issue Tracking system in 1 week (I might put it on tamersalama.com for a taste of what can be accomplised in 1 week). Likes: Ease of use. Help developers focus on business aspects rather than configuration, integration issues. Smooth learning curve. AJAX wowing helpers and js libraries. The power...

Qooxdoo

Came across qooXdoo and I love it.Hard to choose a favorite widget as they’re all quite nice (Tree, Menu, Color Picker, Overlapping Window, Gallery, …). It also seems that integrating them into apps is easy, so, I might give them a try sooner. qooxdoo is an advanced open-source javascript based toolkit. qooxdoo continues where simple HTML is not enough...

Recent Visitors

I added Recent Visitor Geographical Info to the list of sidebar links: First registered for a free account with GVisit and added their script to the blog. Got hold of GVisit RSS feed for recent-visitors’ geographical locations (couldn’t find the RSS link on their website today, seems to have been removed, but replacing the map.php with rss.php in the...

Freemarker / Spring / jBPM / Hibernate / MySQL

I’m on a new gig. Freemarker + Spring + JBoss jBPM + Hibernate + MySQL + …. Sounds like a dangerous mix (nu-b in the first 4), but I’m up for the challenge. Wish me luck. Any comments/suggestions? Anything on jBPM in particular? (seems fairly new, least mature, least documented among the mix). I’ll try to keep the blog...