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Tweets as of 2010-08-29

• "I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me." – Frank Costigan, The Departed #
• Actually said 'Good Morning' to his Mac when it it announced 'It's 8 o'clock'. Taking it to a whole new level… #
• @auxbuss have found mockflow more helpful lately, partly as it's integrated with google apps. balsamiq has a more aesthetic UI though ;o) #

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Tweets as of 2010-08-29

• "I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me." – Frank Costigan, The Departed #
• Actually said 'Good Morning' to his Mac when it it announced 'It's 8 o'clock'. Taking it to a whole new level… #
• @auxbuss have found mockflow more helpful lately, partly as it's integrated with google apps. balsamiq has a more aesthetic UI though ;o) #

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Tweets as of 2010-08-22

• is reading up on #NoSQL and how best to store several '000 small read-only data tables. answers on a postcard please ;o) #

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Tweets as of 2010-07-18

• has broken the @Oracle database. that's a first ;o) #

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RESTful system design

A useful resource (see what I did there?) showing starting point and evolving maturity when designing RESTful systems, courtesy of the ubiquitous Martin Fowler.

Oracle 11g UCP with Tomcat

Ensure you have the below tnsnames.ora file in TNS_ADMIN so as to connect to the server from client using connect string: sqlplus <username>@xyz

xyz =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS =
(PROTOCOL = TCP)
(PORT = <port>)
(HOST = <server_name>)
)
(CONNECT_DATA = (SID = <SID>))
)

Dozer examples

Best place to find Dozer example mapping files is in the source bundle under test/resources. Most other examples out there are pretty basic and won’t help you if you want to do something more complex…

Tweets as of 2010-06-27

• how to extend base or framework test classes from another module with #maven http://bit.ly/5hSvg #

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Tweets as of 2010-06-20

• #java #developers. Interested in an #agile financial services #startup with secured funding? http://bit.ly/a0NNiX #

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Google Apps observations

After experimenting and persevering with Google Apps in a corporate environment I would say the following are the headline issues we have experienced:

Positives:

• Fantastic cost/effort reduction over homegrown or outsourced alternatives
• Simple setup and good online documentation and usability

Negatives:

• Lack of full product features in Google Docs versus MS Office
• Security features not entirely sufficient for a corporate environment

In general, for the cost, speed and effort with which you can set up a functioning environment I would say it’s definitely worth at least making sure you positively rule out Google Apps as an option for your corporate IT infrastructure.

The major issues we have found that might count against Google would be the inability to restrict usage to a certain IP range (i.e. the office) and poor Docs interoperability with MS Office. Until these are resolved corporate users will be slow on the uptake.

I think it’s a reasonable assumption that the products will improve rapidly – but I have found a lot of people with similar observations and no indication from Google that the security issues at least are being tackled!