Holi 2010 – The Big Picture →
March 3rd, 2010 Comments
Smart Console now on Hippo Forge
March 1st, 2010 Comments
Finally I got sometime to move the Smart Console project out of sandbox. The project is now hosted at Hippo Forge. There are two things that are aimed with this project . One – to provide a simple, user friendly JCR Explorer and Console for any repository. Obviously, I’ll add Hippo Repository specific features to the project soon. The second is experimenting with REST interface for the Repository. I’m using JBoss RESTEasy for providing the REST service implementation and ExtJS as the front end.
Currenlty the project is in pre-alpha, and during the next couple of weekends I’ll try to add more features – most , if not all – buttons in the UI do nothing at the moment. But the application in its current state can connect to the repository and display the node tree, and node properties (in a tab) when clicked.
Stay tuned for updates, or if you want to help, just join the project at Forge. Though the project is still in cowboy-coding phase, contributions are welcome, as always.
To see it action, check out the code and run mvn jetty:run. Make sure that your Hippo CMS/Repository is running on localhost.
The First Golden Hippo
February 27th, 2010 Comments
Yesterday I joined the hippo professional services team for a fun filled team event with go karting evening and the first ever Golden Hippo Award event. The evening started with go karting fun, we were competing with each other. This was the first time I ever did this, I failed miserably in the qualifiers. Clearly I’m much more efficient with cars with horns and plenty of people crossing the road and blocking.
The competition was along the lines of F1 racing with one training lap, 3 Qualifier rounds. And the top 5 drivers from the qualifiers went on to compete in the grand finale. And the winners of the evening were Tjeerd, Stefan and Kenan.
After the karting, the Golden Hippo award was announced – Starting this quarter, every quarter the one of the member of the professional services will be chosen by popular vote ( by peers and Hippo partners) and will be awarded with the Golden Hippo. That’s not all, at the end of the year, the team is also planning to give out yearly “Platinum Hippo Award” – for the best team member voted similarly. The awards also come with nice little bonus as well.
And the first Golden Hippo winner for Q1 this year is Marijan Milicevic, he got the most number of votes for Q1. Marijan has also contributed to several projects on Hippo Forge - Import Tool, Simple Validation Framework and Easy Forms HST Component etc.
52 Weeks of UX
February 27th, 2010 Comments
A discourse on the process of designing for real people – a terrific blog by Joshua Brewer the Director of User Experience at Socialcast.com and Joshua Porter is an interface designer and co-founder of Performable.
A must read/subscribe.
Jim Reeks: The Man Behind the Mac Startup Sound
February 27th, 2010 Comments
Who’s the man behind the sound you hear, every time you startup your Mac? One More Thing onemorething.nl went down to San Jose to track him down: Jim Reekes. He worked for Apple for over 12 years, during which he left his mark on everything sound at Apple.
Codeorgan.com →
February 25th, 2010 Comments
The Codeorgan works by analysing the body content of any web page and translates that content into music. The Codeorgan uses a complex algorithm to define the key, synthesiser style and drum pattern most appropriate to the page content.Have a go at http://www.codeorgan.com/
JBoss Tohu →
February 24th, 2010 Comments
- Designed to support question and answer style interactions where the set of questions are dynamic and potentially dependent on the answers received
- Initially targeted at interactive web applications, however technology independent and could be used in B2B scenarios, mobile devices, etc
- An embeddable component that complements and works within existing UI frameworks such as Seam/JSF/Spring MVC
Tohu closes the development and maintenance loop for rule based web applications, by automatically generating user interfaces directly from rule sets.
via Tohu. I wonder how difficult it would be to build something like this using Ruby DSLs.
