tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37403902008-08-22T15:39:11.891-06:00Emilionoreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-47723990311607463622008-07-23T15:30:00.000-06:002008-07-23T15:31:03.881-06:00

It's been a few weeks now that I have started learning Dojo and building a prototype for a web app and I have to say that I am impressed with the toolkit and how well it is architected. To get me started, I started reading the book "Dojo: The Definitive Guide" from O'Reilly on my Safari bookshelf, and also ordered the print copy of the brand new "Mastering Dojo" from the Pragmatic Programmers.

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"Rich Internet Applications" (RIA) are the current standard when in comes to developing a highly interactive web application and usually when people mention RIA, they imply Ajax. I named this post "RIA Technologies" because not everything that implements a rich user experience is based in Ajax technologies... but here I'll explore which technologies make more sense for the project that I am

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-91954717756463946322008-04-12T11:28:00.004-06:002008-04-12T11:52:33.264-06:00

As a recent winner of a Productivity Jolt Award, Structure101 gained my attention, and I was also drawn to it by listening to an interview with Juergen Holler one of the co-founders of the Spring framework on Software Engineering Radio. I played with the trial version and within minutes I was able to create diagrams that displayed graphically the architecture of the application, but most

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-77135751141752443542007-12-10T16:05:00.000-07:002007-12-10T16:12:39.475-07:00

Well, it's been out since October, but I recently came across it and looks like another tool that should go into our build process. Crap4J. This is the latest offering from Agitar, and graciously it comes in the form of Open Source... great! As someone who is greatly interested in producing quality code, I see this addition to my arsenal of open source tools as a very good one. Along with PMD,

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It is finally here... IntelliJ IDEA 7 is out of beta and a released product... and what a nice improvement. It has a lot of improvements to work better with Spring and Hibernate, Web Services, J2EE, JPA, JSF and GWT. It even includes top-level support for Groovy, Ruby, JRuby, Grails and Rails. There is also an easy way to import an existing Eclipse project into IDEA, which is what most of our

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-77411953621322179142007-11-05T12:35:00.000-07:002007-11-06T11:56:14.244-07:00

Well, after more than a week, playing with Leopard, the latest version of the Mac OSX operating system from Apple, I am sold on it. As Walt Mossberg declares, it is not "Revolutionary" rather "Evolutionary". And the main thing is that it is a really stable version that builds on a a great foundation that was "Tiger" the previous version of the OS. There has been extensive coverage of the new

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-61706192272776103482007-09-14T15:21:00.000-06:002007-09-14T16:28:33.976-06:00

This week I attended BEAWorld 2007 and I also visited briefly VMWorld which I could enter as a visitor from BEAWorld's conference. This conference is a big departure from the very technical conferences that I have attended recently in the past (No Fluff Just Stuff, RubyConf, MacOSX Conf, EclipseWorld) but it was very interesting to see what the world of big Enterprise Applications is like today.

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VMware Fusion For the last few weeks I have been toying with the beta version of VMware Fusion, and today version 1.0 is being released. VMware recently entered the playing field of providing a virtualization product to enable running Windows on Mac OSX. I have not tried Parallels yet, but since I have been a long time user of VMware on Windows before, I wanted to give them a try and see how

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-46620789235761757412007-06-05T23:40:00.000-06:002007-06-05T23:44:37.087-06:00

The guys at Google did it again... with the release of Google Gears, the revolution of web apps just got a jolt of energy. There has been attempts by other companies, most notably by Adobe with the Apollo project, to enable some kind of off-line capabilities for web-based applications. But now it was time for Google to give the world in the form of open source, and not proprietary, a very

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-32658059363119124292007-05-01T11:58:00.000-06:002007-05-01T12:12:42.293-06:00

With the announcement by Adobe that it is open sourcing the Flex SDK and also the official announcement from Google that the Google Web Toolkit is also under the Apache license, the playing field for building Rich Internet Applications is getting more interesting. Although Laszlo has been the open source leader for building Flash based applications, and there are a number of Ajax toolkits, Flex

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-2895800515859088652007-04-13T14:52:00.000-06:002007-04-13T15:05:36.781-06:00

I did a couple of talks at the local Denver and Boulder Java User Groups this week, and I could sense a great deal of interest in the community. Not many people had heard about it, but the ones that had, were very interested and had really good feedback to me, specially indicating how easy I made it look. Selenium is an open source tool for testing web applications that was donated to the

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-29687739387832382182007-03-21T15:26:00.000-06:002007-03-21T15:46:45.044-06:00

This week there were a lot of announcements for the RIA (Rich Internet Applications) world... thanks to the AJAXWorld Conference. Adobe launched the alpha version of Apollo, the new runtime that allows the development of RIA in the desktop, so leveraging Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript and Ajax into applications that are web-enabled when connected to the network, and desktop applications that

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-36997641019192333162007-02-28T13:11:00.000-07:002007-02-28T13:13:29.724-07:00

I recently installed the just released Klockwork Developer Plugin for Eclipse, which is supposed to contain all of Klocwork's source code analysis algorithms in a nice package that integrates with Eclipse. I ran the tool agains several projects that I am working on and some open source code bases, and the results were pretty good. Klocwork displays the complete list of findings that enable you

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1161300760938681822006-10-19T17:25:00.000-06:002006-10-19T17:52:51.870-06:00

When the latest release of Ubuntu was released (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS) I decided it was time to install it on my laptop (Dell Latitude D600). But since I also need to work on Windows applications, I needed to have both in a dual boot configuration. I had been playing with Ubuntu using VMWare for some time now and was really impressed with the features, the stability and the ease of use. This was also

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1158769499150178222006-08-28T09:40:00.000-06:002006-09-20T11:09:11.240-06:00

I recently upgraded the hard drive on my PowerBook to 120GB and it was a good opportunity to select exactly what were the most important applications on Mac OSX that I needed to install immediately. So here is the list of essential software for your Mac: - Quicksilver. I don't know how anybody can use a Mac without this incredible piece of software. Even if you only use it in its most simple

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1153269275712365512006-07-18T18:18:00.000-06:002006-07-18T18:34:35.740-06:00

Today, SysInternals and WinInternals have been acquired by Microsoft... so this is the perfect excuse to list the top applications that I always install on a Windows machine... and they are all free or shareware. This is something that several people have asked me before, so I thought it was a good idea to put it here. So here they are: - ProcessExplorer and FileMon from SysInternals. These are

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1148662406017665052006-05-26T10:41:00.000-06:002006-05-26T10:53:26.026-06:00

As I have mentioned before, the marriage of Macromedia and Adobe will result in very interesting offspring, and here is the most important I think: Project Apollo. According to this article, the idea is to move Flash beyond the browser, so basically allowing the development of web applications that can be used offline outside of a browser. It is interesting that they are positioning PDF not

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1144427102997168872006-04-07T10:22:00.000-06:002006-04-07T10:25:03.013-06:00

Wow... I just installed the latest version 5.1.1 of IntelliJ IDEA, and noticed that they are working on a new product: Team Server They also have a working demo that you can try to see results of builds, start a build, check status, etc... One of the coolest features is that you can see the progress of a build as it is running live... try clicking on the RUN button for a project. And coupled

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1140669497789908672006-02-22T21:18:00.000-07:002006-02-22T21:38:17.826-07:00

Since taking up digital photography in 2000, I have been organizing my photos and I am always looking for the easiest way to create a nice photo browser interface or application to share them with friends and family. After trying different photo album generators, I found JAlbum, and this application has all the bells and whistles that I have always wanted. Since I already have my photos

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1136569998848095142006-01-06T10:43:00.000-07:002006-01-06T11:04:24.820-07:00

Well, getting back to posting in my blog (which I plan to do more often now ;-), after some hard months of work and then a well deserved vacation. Usually at the beginning of the year there are new things coming out, like the first look at Windows Vista at CES, MacWorld which is coming next week and the rumors say there will be a new shuffle... a new mini, and the first MacIntel. But for my

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1126883630425828942005-09-16T08:57:00.000-06:002005-09-16T09:13:50.430-06:00

CruiseControl has been around for quite some time, and just a few weeks ago it was updated to release 2.3. It had been a while since version 2.2 had been updated, and I think it was time. The mayor feature in this release, is that it comes bundled with a Servlet engine: Jetty Why is this important? In my opinion CruiseControl has been a good piece of software for setting up your automatic build

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1124775094495850332005-08-22T23:13:00.000-06:002005-08-22T23:31:34.500-06:00

Some years ago I started to use a wiki for team communication in the projects that I was working on. At the time I had found TWiki to be the best alternative to be used in a an enterprise intranet environment. Then we discovered Confluence, and that became our new standard which started to be widely used by other teams in the company. And it has become very popular with a lot of open source

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1124135992646528832005-08-15T13:40:00.000-06:002005-08-15T13:59:52.650-06:00

As I have mentioned before, I joined Solidware Technologies a few weeks ago, and just wanted to share here a list of press references to the release of the first product from Solidware: Splat. * CNET download reviews: Splat * Yahoo Finance * Denver Business Journal * SD Times * DevSource * Forbes * M2 Research And BTW... you can also refer to our shorter url: http://www.solidw.com/

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1124131425160513102005-08-15T12:22:00.000-06:002005-08-15T13:06:11.570-06:00

As posted on Friday on Slashdot and Wired, the OSx86 project has detailed information on how you can run Mac OSX on any intel hardware, and not just the Apple authorized MacIntel machines that have been given to ADC members to try the new OS. There are even videos (video1 | video2) submitted by people of the OS running on a laptop!, and looks like running it inside VMWare is quite easy... I

Emilionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740390.post-1123543558544562472005-08-08T17:06:00.000-06:002005-08-08T17:25:58.550-06:00

One of the initial things that I am doing at Solidware is getting our development environment using top of the line processes and technologies. We decided to use Subversion instead of CVS for source control and I have to say that my initial reactions about Subversion are very positive. The installation was straightforward and quick. The developers provide a comprehensive documentation and there

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