If You are developer in a company that doesn’t involve software development as its main product or line of business: Then you must be suffering from time to time about reporting your work and communicating the efforts you make as KPIs.
Everyone has to provide monthly ,dull and boring charts and tables KPIs showing the amount of work they did, begging for attention about their work.
Somehow developers lack the artistic and eye-catching way to present their work.
Well I propose to use “Code Swarms” to show your development effort in the projects you work on.
gourcing git project
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Tags: code swarms, coding, developement, gource, Java, kpi, Source code
GraphViz, Java, UNIX, Web Technologies, XML | asmaklad, 21 Sep 11 | 
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Sometimes in web-development, it is needed to identify the connecting device, if it is a mobile phone, a tablet or a normal desktop browser.
This is possible by inspecting the HTTP_USER_AGENT parameter -part of the HTTP header- which has some information about the client’s browser, connecting device and operating system.
Anyway; the HTTP_USER_AGENT parameter is a mess, there are no specifications about how the browser should formulate the HTTP_USER_AGENT string and you can never tell from the string signature the supported features on the connecting device. Sometimes it is needed to know if the connecting device support HTML5 and J2ME? , does this device have a QWERTY keyboard …etc.
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If you are an enterprise developer, then you must have came across SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).
When you are first introduced to it, you drown in a ocean of terms and jargon that eventually kills the purpose of it (Simple).
In this this 100 minutes tutorial I try to introduce the reader to SOAP jargon without being stuck in the Jargon Quick sand. I try to introduce terms naturally and gradually as they are needed and as much as possible try to provide visual exhibits to reduce the number of words.
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Tags: HTTP, Objects, REST, RPC, SOAP, Web Technologies, XML, XML-RPC
Introduction, Java, JEE, Uncategorized, Web Technologies, XML | asmaklad, 9 Dec 10 | Comments (2)
We are in the IT business, and a lot depends on how requirements are gathered. If we as IT Gurus try to implement a technology and ignore the requirements, then we have failed.
Our employers and clients are not interested in the latest technology, but they are rather interested in delivering the functionality their requirements dictates.
There are many ways to document requirements and there are times where you have to be innovative on how to document your client’s wishes and dreams. The better you are in this at the beginning, the better the final product will look at the end of the project.
One of the techniques I used many times to document and code requirements is Decision Tables.
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Flash Forward: 3 days already trying to troubleshooting the java code for “PrivilegedActionException” Exception , it turns out it is one parameter in Glassfish that needs to be properly adjusted.
Lets go back from the beginning: 3 days ago I was writing a JEE enterprise applciation , simply a webpage that retrieves data from a DB2 database and then based on a user’s choice it call a webservice for some of the records in the result-set.
I followed GlassFish-Developer’s-guide to call an WS-RPC webservice. the server providing this WS-RPC is somewhere located inside our enterprise network.
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