Category: Java
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Launch of the ATG Developer Community!!!
I am thrilled to announce that we (Spark::red) have just launched the ATG Developer Community! It is a free, open, community portal for everyone who works with ATG software, developers, architects, project managers, business users, everyone. The site has a wiki for posting articles, your own pages and blog entries, how-tos, and more. There is…
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Project Process – ATG Development Practices
I haven’t written a text description of this process yet, sorry. I’ve been really busy working on two upcoming things from Spark::red that I think you’ll all appreciate, so bear with me.
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Rant About Core-Based Licensing
This is a copy of a small rant I just posted on the ATG_Tech Google Group. Please note that ATG isn’t the only company doing this, Oracle does it, as do many others. I just think that it’s wrong:) If you draw a graph showing processing power against software license cost for the same software…
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ATG License IP Checks on JBoss
Some ATG product licenses are bound to a specific list of IP addresses. However, it may validate that in a somewhat counter-intuitive manner, at least under Linux. If, for example, you are running ATG within JBoss on a server with multiple IP addresses (or multiple NICs), you might expect that if you bind JBoss to…
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Project Roles – ATG Development Practices
Let’s define some roles for a full life-cycle ATG Development effort. Your company may not be arranged exactly like this, but it’s a good baseline I think. Client Representative The single face of the client. The sole conduit to and from the client. Project Manager/Dev Manager The owner of the schedule, resources, project status, and…
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Starting Assumptions – ATG Development Practices
We need to start with some basic assumptions to guide our solution. Here is my initial list: The applications being built will be important commerce or personalization sites, but will not be the sort of critical applications like nuclear plant software or air traffic controlling programs which require massive testing and documentation The team may…