Exist Team Aggregated Blogs

Saturday in Madrid, Coruña later

Carlos Sanchez — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:00:00 +0000

This Friday I leave for Madrid, I want to meet some people there so I'll spend some days around, until leaving to Coruña sometime next week. If you are around drop an email or leave a comment

Apache Archiva 1.1 Released

Brett Porter — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:54:36 +0000

Good news from the Archiva project - a new version is out this week with a number of new features and improvements.

There are about 89 fixes and improvements, particularly including:

Artifact Uploads from the Web Interface
RSS
Virtual Repositories
Timeouts for remote proxies
New Runtime Bundle based on Jetty 6.1 and Java Service Wrapper
Apache Jackrabbit WebDAV Servlet
Architecture changed ...

Travel: Allariz, Galicia

Carlos Sanchez — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:00:11 +0000

Allariz is a small town in the region of Galicia, northern Spain, with a strong medieval character.

Reflections

Panoramas

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Looking forward to DSSS

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy Smoak) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:27:00 +0000

With only one more week to go before the NFJS Desert Southwest Software Symposium, I'm really looking forward to this year's conference. Jay and crew do a fabulous job with these shows-- top notch speakers, a comfortable venue, and great food.

The only problem is that I often want to attend more than one talk in each time slot!

Transposing Records into One Field

Julius Cutaran — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:27:54 +0000

As they say in Exist, There’s always a better way.

What I Did…
performed a loop for each record in my collection to retrieve another collection using a particular Id in the record
and placing the retrieved collection to be part of the record.

The Effect…
my screen populates very slow

The Solution…
from backend, transpose those collection being ...

The Apple App Store

strangeplanet — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:20:57 +0000

Quite exciting that Apple has injected quite a jolt into the software development community vein by opening up the iPhone API and App Store. Despite some birth pains, it’s looking to be a smashing hit. And why not? Take the best phone platform out there, a cool idea, some developer brains, mix them up together and you could potentially get a ...

E3 This Week, So What?

strangeplanet — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:05:34 +0000

The annual Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 as it’s more popularly known, has been a significant event for gamers and game providers for the past several years, acting as a springboard for such big-name providers as Blizzard. This week they’re at it again, and though a similar buzz as in years past is flying around, not many gamers are as excited. ...

What's on your plate?

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy Smoak) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:16:00 +0000

For the last couple of months, I've been working with a personal trainer at Fitness Defined, and using The Daily Plate to track calories and nutrition.

Here's an example meal from this morning:

There's no cost to use the site to look up foods or to track your consumption. (You only get the breakdown by meal shown above if you ...

Groovy Users Group First Meetup Tomorrow!

Deng Ching — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:39:26 +0000

The first meetup of the Groovy Users Group will be held tomorrow 7pm at the Orange and Bronze office in Makati.

Topics to be presented:

Intro to Groovy by Michael Mallete
Grails + Acegi walkthrough by Melvin Dave Vivas

For more details, visit groups.google.com/group/philippine-groovy-users/browse_thread/thread/a835c5c84b6f9679

See you there!

Yahoo Doing A Facebook?

strangeplanet — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:48:26 +0000

While not exactly similar to what Facebook did with their API, this is still a page out of the same book. It’s pretty exciting, and depending on if they do it right, can make a huge impact on their positioning. It’s still in the planning stage, but if it can leverage the brainpower in the community and lower the barrier for ...

Philippine Open Source Summit

Brett Porter — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:06:33 +0000

Back in late June, I was able to attend the Philippine Open Source Summit in Cebu. It was another good trip, both for the conference and the opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues.

The conference itself was very well attended, so it is great to see that level of interest in open source in the Philippines, and to meet ...

What I Value at the ASF

Brett Porter — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:50:42 +0000

I’ve been given a couple of reasons to think about what it is that I value about being a contributor to the Apache Software Foundation this year. Someone raised the question of "the Apache way" again today, and so I thought it was worth repeating my own opinions.

I value that projects are not islands. I also value that multiple projects ...

Warszawa (Warsaw)

Carlos Sanchez — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:15:33 +0000

Warszawa is the capital of Poland. During the World War II it was razed to the ground by order of Hitler, around 85% of the buildings were destroyed. After the war the old town Starowka (see below) was reconstructed and now it's an UNESCO world heritage site. The Palace of Culture and Science, built by the soviets, is the tallest ...

Maven is going where, you say?

Brett Porter — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:04:47 +0000

Warner asks Is Maven going away?

Gee, I wish someone had told me, considering I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time on it again recently.

I see daily postings on either the love or hate of Maven, mostly containing no really new insight. At the risk of taking the bait, there were two reasons I thought this one was worth ...

Maven @ the POSS

Deng Ching — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:24:59 +0000

Last June 23-24, the Philippine Open Source Summit (POSS) was held in Cebu and I got to do a technical session about Maven. For those who didn’t get to attend, here’s a short summary of what was presented and discussed in the session =)

What is Maven?
- It is a software project management and comprehension tool that can manage ...

Eclipse: build-error but seems everything is set properly

Julius Cutaran — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:45:48 +0000

Been using Eclipse for two years now.

So I have this project with a modular setup where all model class is in one folder while the webapp is in another folder.

Okay, so i did check everything. It seems everything is set properly.

My project do get build in maven, all build path and variables are set properly.

So how did ...

Entrevistado por minube.com

Carlos Sanchez — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:03:55 +0000

Pedro Jareño de minube.com me ha hecho una entrevista en su parada en Los Angeles durante su vuelta al mundo, por si quieres saber alguna cosa más sobre mi

minube es una web de viajes "social" con una comunidad de usuarios, muy a la web 2.0. Pedro está dando una vuelta al mundo y blogueando desde los lugares que visita ...

Upgrading Struts 2.0.x to 2.1.x

Carlos Sanchez — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:58:30 +0000

Now that Struts 2.1.2 is officially out you may want to upgrade. I've found the upgrading instructions at the Struts wiki to be extremely useful, and pretty much you'll need to read the whole thing.

Two things that I've contributed to the wiki:

Ensure no dependencies in the freemarker groupId are used as the latest version used by Struts ...

Poznan, Poland

Carlos Sanchez — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:08:30 +0000

Poznan is one of the oldest cities in Poland, and the fifth in size. Poznan's cathedral is the oldest in the country, containing the tombs of the first Polish rulers.

Prime Time for Open Source

Jaque — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:53:29 +0000

Is open source ready for prime time? What are the indicators?

These were the big questions in the recently concluded Philippine Open Source Summit (POSS) held last June 23-24 at the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC).

The community voted among 5 indicators which were mentioned by Winston Damarillo during his plenary talk. The result:

– Open Source products that become market ...

New York, New York (3)

Carlos Sanchez — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Last batch of pictures from New York, I promise .

Functional testing with Maven, Cargo and Selenium

Carlos Sanchez — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:12:40 +0000

Setting up automated functional integration tests is not too hard if you have the right tools. It ...

New York, New York (2)

Carlos Sanchez — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:01:31 +0000

A lot more pictures from my trip to New York.

POSS Posting

Junnie — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:50:30 +0000

Maayong Buntag sa Tanan! If that sounded different to some, it was only the Cebuano way of greeting you a Good morning! Am sure you know by now that starting June 23, today, until June 24, the whole world will be watching with interest the events happening in Mandaue City, Cebu! Open Source gurus, advocates, C-level officers and ...

Organizing a Release Party in 30 Seconds

nap — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:08:51 +0000

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, a.k.a. Hardy Heron, was announced available last April 24. A day before that, just out of somewhere in IRC, Jerome suggested having a release party. Within ~30sec, I agreed without thinking. All I knew was that there hasn't a release party for a couple or so previous releases and I wasn't able to attend any before--so ...

Conquer the Mountains With Conquer!

nap — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:05:51 +0000

Bleh. Cheesy title. Anyway, I just wanted to keep track of what I started collecting--hiking gear!

First is one of the items I deem seriously essential, the backpack. This device of synthetic material will contain everything else you need in order to survive convenently in the mountains. Take note, I said survive conveniently. Well that's because man can survive even without ...

Digging Out Memories

nap — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:08:42 +0000

Earlier today, me and my siblings completed the major cleaning in the house. We had to re-arrange the furniture, dispose some old stuff and vacuum out those cobwebs and dust balls in the most inaccessible parts of the house. This was to get the house free of allergens before our mom gets out of the hospital tomorrow. Mom was in ...

New York, New York

Carlos Sanchez — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:29:49 +0000

Some pictures from last year' trip to New York

From Empire State building

Times Square

Central Park

Twitter Support Standard Replies

Brett Porter — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:22:44 +0000

Dear Twitter Support,

Ok, so I appreciate that you acknowledged the receipt of my request, and that you responded in a way that didn’t sound like a standard reply, and that you didn’t just cut-and-paste it.

But if you’re going to use a standard reply, try not to make it look so obvious…

I just hope Lane read the request ...

Eclipse IAM passes creation review, Maven support at Eclipse Foundation soon

Carlos Sanchez — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:33:45 +0000

This week we have gone through the creation review for Eclipse IAM (Eclipse Integration for Apache Maven), and so we are starting with the paperwork at the Eclipse Foundation to create the project in the incubator and start moving the code from Q4E, the codebase will be donated to IAM as start point.

Development won't stop in the meantime and we ...

Gathering Manila Gems

Jaque — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:19:07 +0000

Last night, we(Exist Global) hosted the meeting for PhRUG (Philippine Ruby Users Group). The meeting was led by Mikong who discussed Metaprogramming in Ruby.

As I was once a java developer(I now belong to the non-technical group of my organization), words like class, methods, instance make sense to me. However, I got lost when Mikong started talking about singletons, puts, ...

A little bit on unit testing code with major runtime dependency

erle — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:42:12 +0000

There are times when you want to unit test a part of your code. Maybe for proof-of-concept that it works, or you just wanna be sure that it works before you hit that execute button.

The thing is, that part of the code requires that a runtime mechanism be running.

Am I talking gibberish ? Let me give you an example: ...

Eclipse and Maven: IAM and m2e complete creation review

Brett Porter — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:38:26 +0000

It’s a good day for Eclipse and Maven users, with two integration projects passing creation review to enter the incubator at Eclipse:

With both projects growing in maturity every day and each with their own unique features and focus, Maven users should look forward to two good ...

Dog In A Box

nap — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:16:00 +0000

This is something that stuck in my mind when I was on a long trip and the bus had to stop for a break.

At around 1am, the bus parked in front of the canteen of a stop-over point. Some of the passengers took a walk, some used the toilet, and some had a snack. I stayed out to do some ...

Interested in Open Source Software Development? Here’s How You Can Get Involved..

Deng Ching — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:13:20 +0000

Below are some pointers which I think can be a starting point for people who want to get involved or contribute in open source software development These are just based on my personal experience and nothing formal..

1. The usual jumping point here are those technologies that you’re already using. There might be a bug or a feature you want fixed ...

Debugging in Eclipse, calling shell scripts

Julius Cutaran — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:11:50 +0000

Background:
i’m using Ubuntu, my Eclipse was installed via apt-get
i have Oracle installed under ‘oracle’ profile
i run and debug my program through Eclipse

Issue:
attempt to run sqlldr which is called from the webapp results to an error/sqlldr exit code 3.

Solution:
run the webapp externally, don’t use Eclipse when running the webapp(since it was installed via apt-get and ...

Installing Oracle 10g in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

Julius Cutaran — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:55:54 +0000

This doc isn’t yet perfect, but it would help.

1. Requirements
Your linux swap is set to 2GB
You have the Oracle 10g RC2 installer for Linux

2. Setting Ubuntu

2.1 Install required libraries

Open the Synaptic Package Manager (click System –> Administration)
Click on Settings –> Repositories
Click all the checkbox(main, universe, restricted, multiverse) found in the “Ubuntu Software” ...

PSIA General Meeting

Brett Porter — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:03:48 +0000

I had a busy agenda in Manila, from which I’ve just returned. Getting a bit behind on blogging about it in fact!

During the trip, I was able to attend the PSIA (Philippine Software Industry Association) General Meeting in Makati. It was a bigger than expected turn out, and a good night out. It was interesting to see what else is ...

Speaking at CommunityOne on Monday

Carlos Sanchez — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:55:12 +0000

Seems that I have been volunteered to do a lightening talk at CommunityOne on Monday at the Moscone as part of the Atlassian session.

Thanks to Cenqua' Pete for offering free drinks in exchange (he hasn't realized yet the mistake he has made) and entertainment like last year (hopefully with some differences in critical parts).

See you there.

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JavaOne starts next Monday

Carlos Sanchez — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:05:55 +0000

If nothing goes wrong I'll be next week in San Francisco "attending" JavaOne. "Attending" means I'll just go to the RedMonk Unconference on Monday CommunityOne and networking at the evening parties (as usual)

I'll drive from LA to SF on Friday or Saturday and back the next weekend, hopefully doing some sightseeing, anyone around for a drink during the weekend ? ...

IP in Opensource - a Case Study

Deng Ching — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:22:57 +0000

Last Thursday, I was given the opportunity to do and present a case study on Intellectual Property (IP) in Opensource for the PSIA — Philippine Software Industry Association. My subject was the Apache Software Foundation. I thought I’d give a summary of my presentation here.. enjoy! ;-) (I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank Mykol and my Exist ...

A week in Manila

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy Smoak) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:27:00 +0000

I've spent the last week on the opposite side of the planet, right in the middle of Manila at the Exist Global office. This is my second time in the Philippines; a group of us went to Cebu last summer for a week. This time it's a longer trip, so I have a weekend in the middle... which is about ...

Apache Archiva goes live!

Brett Porter — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:40:24 +0000

Archiva became a top level project at the Apache Software Foundation in March, and we’re now rounding out the move of some of the resources. The web site has moved to http://archiva.apache.org/, and the mailing lists have moved to the same domain.

The project continues to grow - we’ve just added our first committer as a standalone project (welcome, James!). Another ...

Maven and Subversion at STI, Philippines

Brett Porter — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:24:48 +0000

Back to school! I had the opportunity to sit in on a class last Saturday at STI in Cubao. Exist participates in an Open Source Engineering elective there, and while a number of subjects are taught, last weekend was about Subversion and Maven. The purpose of these half-day training sessions is to instruct the instructors that will eventually teach the course. ...

Q for Eclipse 0.6.0 released

Carlos Sanchez — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:52:44 +0000

A new release of Q4E is out, 0.6.0, with WTP support and the ability to do a exclude all/force version from the dependency analysis UI. I particularly like the exclude all because if you had to do it by hand you would go to each dependency and add the exclusions. This way you select the dependency you don't want and Q4E ...

Teotihuacan, Mexico

Carlos Sanchez — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Pictures from the Teotihuacan pyramids close to Mexico City. Really impressive. Teotihuacán was, at its height in the first half of the 1st millennium CE, the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas. The city during its existence was larger than any European city of the same era including Rome. ...

Mexico City

Carlos Sanchez — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:23:48 +0000

ApacheCon EU Day 5

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy Smoak) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:44:00 +0000

Friday was the last day of ApacheCon EU 2008 and finally time for the Apache Maven Best Practices session. It was well attended, with good questions at the end and afterwards. I wish it had been scheduled earlier, both because by Friday I was not feeling well at all, and because people would have been able to put a face ...

Apache Maven 2.0.9 Released

Brett Porter — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:09:16 +0000

It must be release season, because now Apache Maven 2.0.9 is out. As far as point releases go, this is a big one with 62 fixes and improvements, and foundational support for toolchains in plugins. This is the best version of Maven available and a highly recommended upgrade. Kudos to the whole team that was involved in this release, and to ...

ApacheCon EU Day 3

noreply@blogger.com (Wendy Smoak) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:04:00 +0000

Today was the first day of the conference proper, with Jim's State of the Feather and a keynote from Cliff Schmidt on the work he is doing with Literacy Bridge.

This evening we had a "Build Tools and Repository Management" BOF. I left the topic vague hoping that some Ant and Ivy folks would wander in, but it ended up being ...