Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, JRuby, Sun on September 27th, 2007 No Comments »
You might not think these things are related but they are.
I was around, and actually participated in, the bloody revolution that left glass-house mainframe data center operations in virtual flames. I was working on large, and I mean to say scary, scary large, construction projects. These projects had a typical burn rate in the hundreds […]
Posted in IT Architecture on September 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Constructing content for IT workshops is almost always best done by casting the objectives against two key approaches:
Cast the content and delivery in the context of the classical design, develop, test and implement engineering cycle components. Cast the delivery in the context of classical optimization exercises, or more modern 6 Sigma DMAIC or DMADV elements.
For example, […]
Posted in IT Architecture on September 21st, 2007 No Comments »
A workshop is a focused set of meetings, designed to speed the advancement of a business or technical initiative. The success of a workshop understandably hinges on the ability to accelerate the process of designing, developing or implementing an initiative, over alternative approaches, such as a number of meetings, con-calls and document exchanges over […]
Posted in Life on September 13th, 2007 No Comments »
A very sharp Twitter friend, Jay Edwards, aka. “meangrape“, is joining Twitter around October 1st.
“I would like to announce that I have just accepted an offer to work at Twitter. I will be starting on October 1.”
I was happily “introduced” to Jay through a sidelong compliment-tweet by James Governor of Redmonk.
“…a blog for dorks […]
Posted in Rails, JRuby on September 12th, 2007 No Comments »
If you would like to use the command line to configure Glassfish for JDBC/JNDI resources, versus the web GUI method described in my previous post, Arun has has provided this in step 5 some instructions. This replaces the Glassfish GUI steps in my post. Jagadish has some more detailed instructions for configuring JDBC connection pools […]
Posted in Rails, JRuby on September 11th, 2007 10 Comments »
This post is a synthesis of information from several sources and provides step-by-step instructions for building and deploying a Ruby in Rails application to Glassfish that uses J2EE standard JDBC connection pooling mechanisms. This is the preferred method for production deployments to a J2EE server of any scale, since
it leverages J2EE deployment mechanisms, […]