tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94385272024-03-13T22:20:26.881-07:00Good ideas, great ideas and fantastic ideas!Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1132765940819140462005-11-23T09:04:00.000-08:002005-11-23T09:12:20.856-08:00

Just read someone's post on why Java is becoming stupider. I have to agree. The industry always strives to build complexity. I have successfully stayed away so far from all the new language features of JDK 5 (they changed the name yet again to JSE instead of J2SE at this year's JavaOne). After developing Corernstone Framework G3 on JavaScript, I have been convinced more than ever that Java

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1131994343369139062005-11-14T10:33:00.000-08:002005-11-14T10:59:30.593-08:00

There were several recent posts on Seaside, a Smalltalk web framework. Only today did I watch its videos. It is indeed wonderful. Several things set it apart from the rest of the crowd: A complete flow that would usually involve multiple servlets and forms is programmed in one method (using continuation although whose concept is not exposed to the developer directly). All request handlers

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1129613791626327802005-10-17T22:03:00.000-07:002005-10-17T22:39:56.530-07:00

Ruby and Rails are the hot buzz of the moment. I recently bought the book Agile Web Development with Rails. I haven't finished reading it. Only read ActiveRecord (the OR mapping module and the M of MVC) Action Controller (the C of MVC), Action View (the V of MVC) and Ruby language overview. Here are my first impressions.Rails It's a very good framework. There are many design decisions that we

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1124208779712255252005-08-16T09:09:00.000-07:002005-08-16T09:12:59.720-07:00

More web applications are coming onto the scene by integrating with and adding value to existing web applications. Case in point is Cheap Gas that integrates with Google Maps. Remember an earlier posts (1 and 2) on this topic? We will see more of this. This is huge.

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1122509046088518432005-07-27T17:00:00.000-07:002005-07-27T17:04:06.093-07:00

People are talking about AJAX savvy URLs. It's basically URLs that record the state of your AJAX page completely so that you can forward it to somebody who can then completely reproduce the page you see. You know what, we already have this technology. It has been deployed here. Notice the URL when you navigate around.

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1121198785997360872005-07-12T13:05:00.000-07:002005-07-12T13:06:26.003-07:00

Backbase looks pretty good. There are many things we can learn here.

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1119903067536123662005-06-27T13:10:00.000-07:002005-06-27T13:18:36.186-07:00

We should explore using Eclipse's OSGi implementation. One con is the jar is big (almost 800KB). The open source implementation Oscar also seems to be big (>700KB). The Knopflerfish implementation has a 200KB option which is not bad. So do we need the full glofy of OSGi?

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1119891142534119632005-06-27T09:51:00.000-07:002005-06-27T09:52:22.536-07:00

One interesting project to watch: Java Plugin Framework.

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1119559148493341522005-06-23T13:33:00.000-07:002005-06-23T13:41:49.746-07:00

Cisco uses Salesforce.com. Although I work in Cisco IT, I don't know much about that project at all apart from that it exists. Today CNET has an article about it that I quote here:Further, JMP contends that Cisco's IT department has "struggled to integrate these tools with a hosted application and is questioning the logic of a having such a heavily customized hosted application."Well, shall we

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1119547235864419652005-06-23T10:17:00.000-07:002005-06-23T10:21:24.756-07:00

Saw this quote today and love it:Nothing great has ever been accomplished without irrational exuberance.We did that at Cisco in various groups and failed miserably. I certainly thought we took the responsibility. That's why I switched from "It's so great that ..." to "Just do it!". The more I think about it, the more I can see we were in the wrong place :).

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1119544947276164352005-06-23T09:38:00.000-07:002005-06-23T09:44:49.406-07:00

Howard Lewis Ship of Tapestry and HiveMind fame said this when commenting on Wicket (BTW, why would someone use this kind of name for their project?):Mostly, I'm envious of the chance to start with a clean slate. The demand for backwards compatibility is surely holding me back from fixing a good number of things. And if I was starting again today, I would not require subclassing from base classes

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1119331963090104272005-06-20T22:27:00.000-07:002005-06-20T22:32:43.093-07:00

Read Raible Designs post about its cost according to Koders. Cornerstone Framework has roughly 28,000 lines of code, about half the size of Tapestry. So it costs around $140,000 to develop. Again according to Koders. I don't know what formula they use. But it's a good thing to attach a dollar figure to an open source project.

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1112221940025429902005-03-30T14:31:00.000-08:002005-03-30T14:33:21.106-08:00

Will AJAX help Google clean up?This article discuss a lot about the current trend of DHTML. Just want to hear your opinions.

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This is an excellent post to read. Carlos E. Perez, who usually has good thoughts day after day, discusses the how the long tail of software can be served. He argues for Recombinant Components, which is very much related to Mass Customization that we have been preaching. Read this excerpt:The last sentence also hints to another requirement for recombinant computing. That is you customize

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1110582771961627822005-03-11T15:08:00.000-08:002005-03-11T15:12:51.963-08:00

AspectWerkz 2.0 is released today. It support Dynamic AOP, enabling hot deployment and undeployment of aspects at run-time. How wonderful! For us, what this means is, we can dynamically change the behavior of deployed applications without rebooting. I was thinking of using JavaScript to achieve that. Now it's also possible with Java. Only caveat I think is it works for aspects only. How

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1106704680601937212005-01-25T17:54:00.000-08:002005-01-25T17:58:00.600-08:00

With the explosion in interest of Rich Web Applications and feasible support technologies (JSON and JSON-RPC, for example), more and more applications will be done in JavaScript. JavaScript code is in the clear by default. For open source products this is not an issue. For closed source ones, there is a need for scrambling JavaScript code. I remember Oddpost (built an Outlook clone in DHTML

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1106683133464181412005-01-25T11:50:00.000-08:002005-01-25T17:53:38.076-08:00

Just discovered JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) family of components. The notation itself is a subset of JavaScript syntax. The most interesting is the JSON-RPC (try it here), which is similar to XML-RPC but uses the light-weight format of JSON. What does it mean to us? JSON and relatives are what we would have arrived at if we push up our own JavaScript related mechanisms a few notches.

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1105743098945189572005-01-14T14:48:00.000-08:002005-01-14T14:51:38.946-08:00

After some thinking, I believe we should completely focus on delivering one or two killer apps while enhancing the framework. Selling a framework on benefits of customizability, simplicity of API and all that is difficult to say the least. The most effective marketing is a killer app. So our effort on Cornerstone can focus on writing documentation, unit tests, enhancements, etc. without the

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1105239132277719062005-01-08T18:50:00.000-08:002005-01-08T18:52:12.276-08:00

If you do a search on Google for "cornerstone framework", our site comes up first now! This means the users have tuned Google's result to point that query to our site. This is a good sign :). So today is another milestone.

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1104388619760824392004-12-29T22:33:00.000-08:002005-06-14T08:06:57.403-07:00

Here is a longish post on why open source projects fail. We have just got started. I guess it's going to be a challenging but exciting ride. There is a lot of unknown. But I do believe we have the critical ingredients of vision and implementation. But we need to make sure community process works smoothly.

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1103746978332553382004-12-22T13:19:00.000-08:002004-12-23T12:03:38.123-08:00

Interesting quote from this post: The Web Way is a philosophy toward Web-based services: They should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.They should have clean designs for user interfaces and clean designs for programming interfaces.Where it's useful, they should embrace REST.Where it's useful, they should embrace loose coupling.Where it's useful, they should embrace glorious,

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1103575879157109932004-12-20T13:40:00.000-08:002004-12-20T12:51:19.156-08:00

One interesting piece of technoloy we need to closely look at is AspectWerkz. Release 2 does load-time (as opposed to compile-time (e.g. AspectJ) and run-time (e.g. DynAOP)) weaving and has excellent performance while not requiring precompiled code or a different language. It can also work with different aspect implementations.

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1103252741576612122004-12-16T19:00:00.000-08:002004-12-23T11:48:09.596-08:00

Many good languages, such as JavaScript, Lisp, Smalltalk, etc., but not Java, support closure, which is basically a function (withthe bindings for its parameters) that is a first-class value that can be passed around into other functions/methods. Closure gives the developer tramendous power in writing simpler code. According to Guy L. Steele (of Common Lisp and Scheme fame),A Closure needs to

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1102980090185021572004-12-13T15:16:00.000-08:002004-12-13T15:21:30.186-08:00

The Atom API sounds a lot like what we want to achieve for the Web of Apps, except it is designed for content. Maybe it can evolve into something for communication among applications. Need to dig into it and learn from it.

Junhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13461541533557882300noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9438527.post-1102977868884223822004-12-13T14:31:00.000-08:002004-12-14T18:42:49.756-08:00

So far the experience with Blogger has been pretty good. I recently bought a Nikon D70 digital SLR camera. It has already changed my view of family photography (my 2.5-year-old son is of the golden age of being all natural without stopping to pose). Some features that set it (and other fine digital SLRs) apart are: instant on, (almost) zero shutter lag and fast continuous shooting (not to

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