Travelling, and not Arriving

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The hottest Java Web application… ever

Well, I’m talking about hot.. deployment, obviously.
In the last months, it happened to me quite a few times to talk with different people about the possibility of being able, in a Java Web Application, to dynamically add/start/stop plugins.
The usual example that comes to my mind is Wordpress: you can download, add and start plugins, and […]

Google App Engine opensource porting

Interesting piece of news this morning

One of the biggest criticisms of Google’s App Engine have been cries of lock-in, that the applications developed for the platform won’t be portable to any other service. This morning, Chris Anderson, the Portland-based cofounder of the Grabb.it MP3 blog service, just released AppDrop — an elegant hack proving that’s […]

In case you were living on the Moon…

… and didn’t hear the noise, Google has just release Google App Engine.
I strongly agree with Dave Winer:
Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I’m not kidding. It’s even better than I hoped. Yes, it’s only Python, but IBM’s PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn’t matter…
Too bad […]

Digital Photo Workflow for the EEE Pc

Being a passionate photographer and a happy Asus EEE owner, I sometimes would like to take a photo and post it immediately in this blog. I tried to do that last week, at QCon, and it turned out it isn’t exactly a smooth process. In fact, I had to:

Change my camera settings to create JPG […]

Sun Microsystems: moneys for ideas

After Google and its Android competition, now it’s time for Sun Microsystems to come up with an interesting initiative to reward worldwide developers: the Netbeans Innovator Grant.
You can submit a project proposal — your ideas of how to improve the NetBeans Project — and a panel of experts will assign to the best proposals […]

See you at Jazoon, Zurich, June 24-28

My presentation “From J2ee to JavaEE… and beyond” has been accepted to Jazoon 2007; the conference will take place in Zurich, starting from June 24th.
The definitive schedule is not available yet, but you can already find a list of the technical presentations.

TDD of mail services

Lately I’ve come to the conclusion that TDD is the only viable way to develop software; I don’t mean to say that you must use TDD to write even your PHP homepage, but if your team is developing a project for a customer, and you want this project to be mantainable and cause less headaches […]

Glassfish in the trenches: How to fix MacOsX startup problems

I don’t really know if this is a new problem (caused by the recent update of the JDK 1.5 for MacOsX) or if it’s an old one, but last night, while writing the domain cheatsheet, I discovered that the asadmin command line has some problems with MacOsX 10.4.x.
Reproducing this bug is simple: just try to […]

Glassfish in the trenches: Domains cheatsheet

Often the new Glassfish adopters aren’t really familiar with the concept of domain, which is really handy when developing Java EE applications.

First of all, what’s a domain? A complete (and complex) definition can be found here. Simply put, a domain is a Java EE engine which can be administered, configured, started and stopped separately from […]