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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Building Oracle 10g portlets in a continuous integration environment

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Ignoring all the hints (to use wizards and manual deployments) from the Oracle information as to how to go about creating JSR168 portlets for the Oracle 10g Portal server, we have successfully designed a continuous integration environment for the Oracle portal environment for a client. The Oracle 10g portal server is the old-school Oracle app-server [...]

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Oracle to buy Sun …

Monday, April 20, 2009

Yes, it’s true. Oracle and Sun have both announced the marriage. Techcrunch has the full press release. ZDnet some other commentary. A few people seem to be sweating about MySQL. It would not be stressing about MySQL too much. It could get spun off, who knows. It’s even possible, as some commenters on Techcrunch say, [...]

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Money-is-Money v0.16

Friday, April 17, 2009

Putting money-is-money into my own Maven repository gave the impetus to me to clean up the actual code base of the library. There are now a grand total of three classes, including an interface, which is much reduced. As anyone who knows me, will know that I think this is a great improvement. See this [...]

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Money-Is-Money v0.15 with added maven repository

Friday, April 17, 2009

In the course of an assignment for a client I’ve been giving Artifactory a good going-over. Artifactory is a Maven repository and mirror and is pretty cool and easy to set up – just drop the WAR file into a running Tomcat instance. On my Mac I ran it under Tomcat 6.0.18 with Java 5, [...]

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Are fixed-price contracts evil?

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Alef Arendsen asks ‘Are fixed priced contracts evil?’, especially to the agile process, and summarises there a number of responses that others have had into this question. Especially in the contractual arrangements that consulting companies need to make in the agile development sphere. He points to an excellent post by Seth Schubert on this matter. [...]

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Hosts and subdomains and infrastructure deployment

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

It always amazes me how many IT infrastructure managers apparently fail to understand just what a ‘subdomain’ is. How many of the developers reading this blog entry have ever been confronted with the situation of deploying their applications onto infrastructure that’s named like the following? Local development: localhost, localhost, localhost, joes-dev-box Development / Integration: tomcatdev-svr1, [...]

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