As the pragmatic programmer once said: It’s time for a new language. The hype is all around Ruby and Rails. I thought it might be a good time to revisit an age-old web application (Tomcat/Struts/JDBC/MySQL). Based on Developerworks article: it seems that RoR uses a tech stack similar to some J2EE frameworks (Container/MVC/Persistence/DB) with room for scalability and maintainability.Moreover...
After registering tamersalama.com, I came across a generous offer from Pratik (http://typo.in). I dropped him a couple of lines and voila! I was on his server with free space and bandwidth. Thanks Pratik. I plan on a Ruby/Rails app plus some additional stuff if space permitted.
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)...
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...
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...
First post is here Third post is here I found out that the provided IBM ant tasks are designed to run from within eclipse (apparently as plugins, through a set of clicks).In order to run them as _Headless Tasks_ (IBM: “Headless” means running builds from the command line without using the WebSphere Studio or Rational Application Developer GUI) they...
Second Post is here Third post is here In an effort to ease our deployment cycle, I’ve been trying to develop simple ANT scripts to deploy to a remote server running Websphere 6.0. To my joy, I found that IBM was kind enough to provide ANT tasks that take care of the deployment (wsInstall, wsadmin) [Poor me: I thought...
Trying out Google Sitemaps. Vaguely, looks like the service is supposed to make Google some sort of website subscriber. Following Google’s instructions: Downloaded python script from sourceforge (along with example config,urllist files). Created the urllist.txt including most of my urls with their parameter values based on their database values. Created config.xml (following example_config.xml) – pointing to the newly created...
What’s your favourite Class name?Mine is BeanPropertyValueEqualsPredicate – Funny name with a noble function (helped me filter a bean list, knowing the value of one of its properties). {% highlight java %} BeanPropertyValueEqualsPredicate bpvep = new BeanPropertyValueEqualsPredicate(”myProperty”, “someValue”); CollectionUtils.find(beanList, bpvep); {% endhighlight %}
Disclaimer: Old news to some.Google Summer of Code is kind of a unique initiative. The project simply provides a stipend to students ($4500) for working on assignments to imporove/enhance opensource projects from a list of OS participating organizations. It’s wonderful to have such initiatives aiming at finding new open source developers and planting open source ideas in young minds.Any...