java

Roller recent entries and comments

According to Marcel’s request in a recent comment – here’s how I hacked the list of recent entries and comments on my blog.It is based on someone else’s work (I forgot who). Create two new Recent Entries and Comments template pages. Recent Entries template: `

Working for a manufacturing company? Share Your Experience.

Yesterday I had a phone interview slash discussion with the CEO of href=”http://www.globe-soft.net” target=”_blank”>Globe Soft (Ilater knew that he’s the CEO from their website, he didn’t introducehimself). To cut the story short, the advertised position was for asenior J2EE Developer, a few minutes into the discussion I recognizedthat the company wanted a code monkey rather than a “senior” staff...

JRoller Feature or Bug?

JRoller haven’t reset the hit counter on my blog for a couple of days (or those of other blogs too as I can see). Is this a feature or a bug? Should I be resetting the counter explicitly?

IPATO

UPDATE (September 2009): During the past 4 years, this post has managed to be the no. 1 hit for people looking for IPATO exam samples. It was a hope for some and desperation for others. To my knowledge, no one was able to get those “screenshots” or any further insider’s info from the people who were here before (except...

Freemarker vs. JSP (JSTL EL)

I’m starting to wonder what more can Freemarker offer than JSP 2.0 (or even 1.2) with JSTL EL (Taglibs)? Still it isn’t clear separation (as claimed by FM folks) between the Ms and Vs. Moreover (for someone like me), embedding JSP Tag libs (being it Struts, JSTL, or the like) into Freemarker templates is equivalent to using JSPs with...

HTML in Reports

FCKEditor is so powerful, but, when weighed against the fact that CrystalReports understands only a limited set of HTML tags (crHTMLText text interpretation), the benifits diminish. I’ve been trying for an hour to get the best of both words (FCKEditor, CrystalReports) with no real success. The HTML support in CrystalReports is quite basic and my HTML doesn’t render correctly...

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...

Matt’s OSCON posts – Priceless

Attending OSCON 2005 in Portland, OR, USA: $1890.00 (+expenses).Reading Matt Raible’s posts about OSCON when you’re on the other side of the globe: priceless. These are for my enjoyment 🙂 [OSCON] Next week in Portland. [OSCON] Monday Morning (Facets of Ruby) [OSCON] Monday Afternoon (Ruby on Rails – Enjoying the ride of programming) [OSCON] Tuesday Afternoon (Creating Passionate Users)...

Open Source Rating

Finally, a rating system for open source software. Business Readiness Rating is an initiative sponsored by Carnegie Mellon, O’Reilly, Spikesource, Intel. The rating would include categories such as functionality, usability, quality, security, documentation and technical support. This would cut to the chase in selecting an OS solution, and would help mature solutions get more recognition. I look forward to...

Remote deploy to Websphere – Take 3

First post is here Second Post is here This is still work in progress and needs refinement (a How-I-Did-It not a How-To). Running with Rational Application Developer 6.0.0.1 w/Interim Fix 003. Although I’ve tested the concepts, yet, I haven’t yet managed to executea compete cycle of Checkout (from CVS), Build App, Generate EAR, DeployEAR to server. I still have...