The open source movement has been amazing in the enterprise. We have been working with Liferay for a while now, and find it to be getting better each day. The nice thing is, we can literally see it get better each day with direct access to the source over the web along with detailed commits and much more than ever anticipated we would ever know about our enterprise solutions. I believe that this is an example of transparency that makes the open source environment even more compelling. Not only are these capabilities helping move along the open source environment and … Read More
Eclipse IDE Names and Versions Through Helios
Sometimes I am asked about Eclipse versions or see people reference only the name online, assuming their readers know the history/future. Here is a quick cheat sheet on Eclipse IDE versions with names as of today going back to Callisto in June 2006: (Planned) Juno (Version 3.8 and 4.2) – June 2012 Indigo (Version 3.7) – June 2011 Helios (Version 3.6) – June 2010 Galileo (Version 3.5) – June 2009 Ganymede (Version 3.4) – June 2008 Europa (Version 3.3) – June 2007 Callisto (Version 3.2) – June 2006 [box] Given the reputation of large corporations to release enterprise software products … Read More
ColdFusion 9 Development on Windows (Standalone Server, ColdFusion Builder, and HelloWorld)
This guide walks through an installation of:
- Standalone ColdFusion 9 Developer Edition (Server)
- Standalone ColdFusion Builder (IDE)
Upon installation of the above, this guide further walks through how to configure the ColdFusion Builder IDE and build simple “Hello World” application.
PS: I can’t remember the last Hello World that was this simple to develop with such few lines of code.
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Oracle Invests Over $1 Billion in Middleware 11g
Oracle’s 11g Middleware management has thrown out a stat that might make your head spin. If it doesn’t, it probably should a little. For the Middleware 11g product line, they have spent over 16,000,000 (sixteen million) hours on quality assurance and testing. You can do some various forms of computation, but that gets me somewhere to a minimum cost near half-a-billion dollars on testing. They claim something similar for development time (over 10,000 person years which — by my calculations — is even more than 16,000,000 hours). So, I think Oracle is telling us they have spent over $1 billion … Read More
OSB vs. OESB – Making sense of OSB, Mediators, OESB, and BEA AquaLogic Service Bus
This post describes how Oracle transformed Oracle ESB and BEA AquaLogic Service Bus products into the 11g SCA Architecture that includes OSB and Mediators. Comparing Oracle ESB 10g and AquaLogic Service Bus. How did Oracle Port products into the 11g SCA Paradigm? The 11G Offering, Mediators and OSB. Which To Use? Oracle’s grande vision of Fusion.
Flash – Adobe, Apple, Google
I read this as “We Wish Apple Was More Like Google”. Okay, let me come right out and tell you that Apple has not been morally right about anything related to preventing Flash on their devices. They have simply played a good marketing game to protect profits and eliminate competition. Amazingly, even after [halfway] eating crow about their previous decision to deny support for Flash by now supporting Flash-built Apps in the App Store, there are people saying Apple has been right to deny its users Flash on the web. Start with the premise that the only reason Apple is … Read More
Flex 4 & FlashBuilder Impressions – Catalyst, FXG, Spark Components
This past week I was able to write a small application with the Flex 4 API and FlashBuilder. I have quite a bit of previous experience with Flex 3 and wanted to write a quick note on my first impressions of the new environment.
Virtualization – M&S Consulting
At M&S, we are going virtual all the way. We have delivered a number of virtualized environments for customers. Some have been for Oracle Middleware solutions, some for complete Microsoft domains. Some for open source system. And many for development instances. We have tinkered with going totally virtual for own infrastructure over the years, but decided to avoid biting the bullet for a number of reasons: migration time/effort has typically been at the top of the list. But with the improvements in virtualization technology, advantages proven now over years, apparent “stickiness” of the leading players, our own maturity in this … Read More