Archive for January, 2005

Geek Management by Geek Managers

Breaking the silence (long time no post).
I came across an insightful post (/.) about geek management (by geek managers).

It listed a lot of wonderful experiences and books.

Hope I had more time for thorough read, enjoy!

Opensource CMS

I've been looking around for a a Java based opensourced CMS. The journey is quite fascinating. Many projects with many features, design and architecture.
I've been to Magnolia, InfoGlue, Daisy, and more. Still not set on which one I'm going to use.

Magnolia seems like a good choice, one advantage is their use of the upcoming API for java content repository JSR-170 (Content Repository for JavaTM technology API).

A good place to stop was CMS Matrix for a comparison of features. It doesn't reflect the most recent features, but at least it's quite good in listing them out.

Some other good stops were at McBlog and Punit Pandey's Weblog.

ValueList and DbForms

In a quick search for display libraries I landed on the ValueList project. It really worth some exploration, especially with its spring configuration and direct resultset fetching for a better memory utilization (rather than in-memory lists in Displaytag)/

Through another search for ValueList discussions, I landed on a bigger find, DbForms. It looks like a solution that I have been discussing with some friend (A solution for delivering basic web apps through a simple GUI, aka RAD). I will be putting some time to playing with it.

As always, any comments are appreciated.

DisplayTag 1.0 released

Displaytag 1.0 was released today.
Version changes are in the announcement. [Display Tag Download]

A look at some javascript table grid (w/client side data sort) has made me pay a visit to the Displaytag website (out of appreciation to their work).

Long live to server side data manipulation.