Category: Java
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First brush with Ruby On Rails
Earlier this week I was hanging out with a friend talking about a project he was working on and I decided to poke at it a bit with him, and as such got my first hands on experience with Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails or RoR obviously has huge buzz and is a very…
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Stealing my Resume? Try Learning ATG First.
Apparently someone decided to copy big chunks of my resume and put her name at the top and then go apply for at least one (maybe more) ATG positions. The resume got her a phone screen, but things quickly came to a halt when it became apparent that she didn’t know ATG at all. It…
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ATG User Group in Boston!
Spark::red ATG Hosting is pleased to sponsor an ATG User Group in Boston! We invite everyone who works with ATG software and technologies to join us on January 12th (Wednesday) from 6 PM to 9 PM for an evening of great food, free drinks, networking, and a few enlightening presentations. Boston is a hub of…
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JBoss Performance Tuning and MasterTheBoss
I review technical book manuscripts for a few different publishers, and recently had the pleasure of working on an upcoming book called JBoss Performance Tuning by Francesco Marchioni. It’s coming out in December 2010 and will be a must have addition to your bookshelf if you deploy applications on JBoss. The book contains extensive performance/load…
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The True Cost of ATG’s Core Based Licensing
This is a follow up from a post I made 8 months ago: Why ATG’s Core Based Licensing is Stupid With the new Westmere hex-core CPU’s out now, the problem has gotten worse. A mid-high or high end Westmere CPU presents as 12 cores. So what does this really mean? I just ran the numbers,…
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ATG CSC Usability
note: this is post four in my ATG CSC and why I hate it series: ATG CSC has a new UI While the old Commerce Assist UI was pretty bare-bones, pretty simple, and not super “smart” it generally worked. It was pretty easy to figure out how to do what you wanted to do, and get…