Macel Legaspi » Engineering — One of the Top Jobs in the Booming BPO Industry in the Philippines
Who doesn’t know about Facebook? I hear it every where I go. Mark Zuckerberg, its founder, is believed to be the world’s youngest billionaire at 25 with a $4 billion net worth. Before that, who was believed to be the richest man in the world? Bill Gates. Both identities are from the tech industry. In a recent news article, it ... [Link]
Macel Legaspi » Are you Agile?
Much of my experience with agile methodology deals with web app development, specifically the corporate sites of G2iX, including Exist, MaestroDev, Morphlabs and the main G2iX website. I had the great opportunity to spearhead the production (if not, most of the iterations) of all these websites last year and agile development has always been our de facto model for delivery. ... [Link]
nap » Sweet Victory
We just finished filling up our big cart with groceries when I decided to have a last stroll around for last minute buys before lining up in the cashier. Neither of us knew that the first cashier we lined up for was dedicated to shoppers with five items or less. So right away, we switched to the next lane that ... [Link]
erle » Green Eclipse Editor Color Theme
I am anal when it comes to editors. The first thing I check out if I’m planning to use a particular editor for the long haul is if its color theme can be modified to my taste. Additional bonus is if it has a way to import/export those themes, so I can just find a color theme in the internet ... [Link]
nap » Globe Tattoo in Fedora
The home wireless router got busted--good reason for me to get myself one of those mobile broadband products. I decided to try Globe Tattoo. Here is how I got it to work in Fedora.Install usb_modeswitchThe kernel recognizes the device as a storage device first before knowing it is a usb modem. This thing does the identification.$ yum install usb_modeswitchConfigure usb_modswitchTo ... [Link]
Deng Ching » Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation book (final version) now available!
After almost a year of writing and revising, our book is finally finished and published The book is about Apache Maven and centered on a "best practices" approach. It is not the usual how-to books but more on effective usage and application of Maven in your projects/applications. You will also learn how to use Maven together with Apache Continuum (continuous ... [Link]
Brett Porter » Blog Moved to Wordpress
It’s been a busy time of late, and my blog has been much neglected, so it is time to get back into it. I’ve started by re-invigorating it and since I have become used to Wordpress, I’ve moved it to Wordpress.com. Everything should redirect over there soon, and if you are subscribed to the feedburner URL you will already be ... [Link]
noreply@blo... » Phoenix Scrum user group at Infusionsoft
Last night was the kickoff meeting for the Phoenix Scrum user group. It was hosted at Infusionsoft, a local company which makes marketing automation software for small businesses, and which boasts an indoor football field. Here we are set up in the corner, waiting for the presentation to begin:Through the magic of technology and streaming video, Ken Schwaber presented "Scrum, ... [Link]
Brett Porter » Apache Archiva 1.2 Released
Archiva is celebrating its 1-year anniversary of being a top level project at Apache, and fittingly a new release is now available for download. Some of the new features that are in the latest release: Generation of the Nexus index format Other search related improvements Improved audit logging of changes Repository statistics information An XMLRPC interface to all administration and ... [Link]
Brett Porter » Official Apache Blogs Launched
If you are reading this, there is a good chance that you may have been following Planet Apache previously - the aggregator for the individual blogs of committers at the Apache Software Foundation. Recently, the infrastructure team have also set up an official blogs site to set up blogs for official news from the foundation, infrastructure, and for individual projects ... [Link]
noreply@blo... » Apachecon EU Day 2
TrainingOn Tuesday I attended Chad Michael Davis' Ajax on Struts 2 training. Chad is one of the authors of Manning's Struts 2 in Action book, and it was great to get to meet him in person. In the class, we saw how to start with the skeleton of a webapp and turn it into a Struts 2 app (add the ... [Link]
noreply@blo... » ApacheCon EU Day 1
TravelThe flight to Amsterdam was uneventful, if wakeful. I had brought ear plugs, but not a sleep mask, and reading lights going on in nearby rows would disturb me. It wasn't a particularly turbulent flight, but it seemed that every time I'd almost get to sleep, we'd hit some rough air. So I landed in Amsterdam on Monday morning with ... [Link]
noreply@blo... » ApacheCon EU Day 0
TravelI left Phoenix mid-morning Sunday for a short hop to Houston and then a long leg over to Amsterdam. Last year I flew through Newark, which split the trip into 5 and 7 hour flights. I prefer this year's itinerary, which was 2 and 10. I'd rather get all the changing planes and running through airports over with, and just ... [Link]
Brett Porter » Apache Maven 2.1.0 Released
The Maven project has now released it’s first feature release since Maven 2.0 way back in October 2005. (Ok, so we snuck in a few features snuck into previous point releases, but these are certainly more prominent). The main highlights are: Secure Storage of Server Passwords Addition of a prepare-package phase Additional switches to the command line for alternate reactor ... [Link]
Deng Ching » “Managing Your Repositories with Archiva” @ApacheCon Europe 2009
ApacheCon Europe is coming up!** I’m given the privilege of holding an hour long session at the conference to talk about Archiva. Here’s a short summary of what I will be covering in my presentation: www.eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/ses~ Wendy Smoak and Carlos Sanchez will also be speaking at the conference. Wendy will be doing a presentation on Apache Continuum www.eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/ses~ while Carlos ... [Link]
