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Mike Cannon-Brookes on Java, J2EE, OSX, Open Source, Australia, Atlassian, Bug Tracking, JIRA and more...

Wednesday, 25 September 2002

James was talking about database refactoring - and today I stumbled across The Process of Database Refactoring. Just another one of those coincidences. 11:29:00 PM  comment []      Anthony let the world know that JPublish 1.3 is released. See What's New. JPublish gets more and more nifty all the time. It's good to have a Java based CMS with a really agile style. I like it. (I'm not using it yet, but I'm getting more and more inclined to! ) Anthony - currently We store our website/s in CVS, and use that to sync them between desktop and server (and backup server) etc. Is it possible to build such sync's into JPublish? 8:30:46 PM  comment []      <Carlton> Heh, we just got JIRA running on an AS/400. Scale baby, scale! 2:26:40 PM  comment []      David blogged a fantastic summary of the Triangle JUG J2EE Container Shootout. I'm very sorry I missed it, sounds like a riot. Here's my favourite question and answer, I couldn't stop laughing when I read it. Everyone indicates they would buy Orion or JBoss... and then effectively tries to justify their own app server cost - hahahahah! Whoever thought up this question should get a medal, it's a gem to ask people (in any sphere of technology): Which of your competitors products would you choose? ORACLE: Farzin tried to answer Orion, but Oracle's app server is an OEM version of Orion, so that did not fly. Then Farzin said that Websphere is too big, Weblogic looks OK, but since JBoss is free and easy to use he would choose it. BEA: Robert said that JBoss is free and for development purposes would get the job done, but for mission critical apps he would choose WebSphere - but only if he could affort the IBM consultants required to set it up. He said that "WebSphere can be made to work," the dev tools are good, and the admin console is nice. IBM: Greg said that he might download Oracle's app server, but he would be worried that Oracle would change code-bases before the download was complete. For mission critical apps, he would choose WebLogic because there are so many developers that are familiar with it. JBOSS: Mark said that he would choose Oracle because Oracle is Orion and Orion was developed by Rickard Oberg's room-mate and therefore Orion is very similar to JBoss. His second choice would be WebSphere because IBM will be around for ever and ever - it is always a safe choice. 2:18:47 PM  comment []      Matt Mower has discovered why RSS in JIRA is "so cool!". Oh man this so rocks! I'm now have Radio subscribed to a feed coming out of my liveTopics JIRA project.  I get an RSS item for each change that happens, i.e. someone adds a new issue, someone adds a comment, it's all there.  This is *so great* for project visibility. On that note, Rafe bought Trillian Pro today (which I also own) - he notes: One thing I noticed is that there's an RSS plugin for Trillian Pro available that I haven't yet messed with. It looks promising, though. I leave it to your imagination to work out that connecting Matt's thought with Rafe's means that you can now get a configurable issue feed inside your IM application. Small things, loosely connected! Perhaps rather than bug tracking it should be bug blogging? Bug KM? (Oh and you can also get your Radio comments as a feed now too - cool!) 2:15:10 PM  comment []      From the man who I call "Mr i18n", a mini-rant on why i18n is overlooked: If it were only that simple ... If it were only that simple. This is why I dismiss any of the Amazon.com reviews about no value for our book over Sun's internationalization tutorial. I wish it were that simple or else I WOULDN'T HAVE SPENT A YEAR WRITING A FSCKING BOOK ON THE SUBJECT! 2:10:37 PM  comment []      Bob has released classworlds-1.0-beta-1, his directed graph classloader. Sounds cool, but is it useful in a J2EE sense? I mean, AFAIK it's pretty much dancing with the devil to f'k with the classloader in anyway from inside a J2EE server? 2:09:07 PM  comment []      James says commons-sql is ready for use. Nifty. I like the idea, but from reading the site I still don't quite get it. James, perhaps a very simple overview of what commons-sql does, and where it's useful is needed for the front page, rather than a paragraph loaded with other Jakarta project names and JavaDoc links? Now commons-sql could save me massive headaches (I think) if it could handle updating of the datamodel. What I'm thinking is that you define your datamodel in an XML file, and commons-sql knows how to autocreate that given the DB type. Then when you ship an update, commons-sql could realise the DB already exists, and instead of creating, update it based on the current XML datamodel (ie add new tables and new columns). This is one of the coolest OFBiz EE features that we use everytime we ship an update. To have it 'framework independent' would be very cool. Can it do that? If not, could it? 2:07:26 PM  comment []      The Cream Party. For anyone who wasn't at the Cream Party, you missed out on a funny night. Then again, as I forgot to blog the invitation - and very few readers are even from Sydney, you probably couldn't have come anyway [rebelutionary] I don't want to know which dairy cabinet you ransacked for your supplies ... :) [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog Zilla] hahah it's called Bi-Lo! Which brings me to an interesting connundrum that maybe all the smarties out there in the blogosphere can answer: What do I do with 10 litres of spare cream? Anything I can make? (And no, throwing it around my house again doesn't count) 1:41:40 PM  comment []      Now this is very, very exciting news. It would seem that has now officially Microsoft bought Rare and Rare will only be making games for the XBox. Wicked! 1:03:30 PM  comment []