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When is open source and standardization right?
Standardization is essential for certain parts of the stack, those items that change least frequently i.e lower in the stack. Higher in the stack needs to change frequently and here standardization kills innovation. We need to remember it take a lot of time to get to a standard and also Open Source will always be…
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Ruby on Rails
Not having the time to code in Java as i once did, i thought that i decided that it was about time to have a go at a new language. I selected Ruby and the Rails framework as i had enjoyed the debate i had at QCon and felt that it would help me understand…
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QCon day 5 – BNP Paribas Architecture
A fascinating talk, or maybe a tutorial on how the world of market risk works within BNP Paribas . By outlining clearly the problem space and problems faced by IT departments in the banking world;procurement and strategic sign-off and procurement. You got a good feel for how the architecture came together. In this case i…
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Sky Travel Site Launched
I am happy to announce that my team have just launched the new Sky Travel site . It is a complete re-development form the ground up and integrates with multiple providers to provide a breath of product offerings. It has been built using open source Java technology (Tomcat, Mysql, Apache) and uses the Spring and…
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Google Android
Withe the announcement of the Open Handset Alliance Google entered the mobile phone market. not with a phone as many had expected, but with an open source mobile operating system called Android. Android was purchased by Google back in 2005 and has been augmented to form a complete software stack for mobile devices such as…
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Incendiary Blue Open Source Java CMS
I have recently released content management system that i co-wrote. It’s a lightweight content management system that uses standard data and data structure formats to represent content structure and content. It is Java for platform independence, and utilizes tags or Java objects to incorporate content into HTML pages. It has some great feature for relational…
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Project Launch – Essent Trading
My team have just launched site for Essent Trading . Its written in Java and uses an open source CMS called incendiary blue.