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1 August 2007
Grails Vs. Rails - the Thrilla in Manila: A Study on Platform Productivity
“Down goes Frazier (Ruby on Rails), down goes Frazier …” If the numbers we are tracking regarding an ongoing Enterprise Groovy/Grails initiative continue to pan out; as a business person, I will have a clear statement in the Rails/Grails debate: “I want all Grails, and I want it all the time.”
Our client is a Fortune […]
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19 July 2007
Ruby on Rails the Revolution?
I just jumped into the wayback machine and was inspired to think about technology adoption using a framework for the stages of political revolution - first shown to me by my high school History teacher and the school’s soccer coach, Larry Bosc. So, in addition to the way Geoffrey Moore canonized the technology maturation […]
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5 July 2007
Go-Railers in the Midst …
Dian Fossey would be proud. The comments and feedback I’ve received regarding my last post ranged from the contemplative: “excellent (though painful to read)…” to the vitriolic: “retarted.” Suffice it to say, I was impressed with the throng of Railers defending their (our) beloved framework (and more importantly “movement”) like Sigourney Weaver defending African Mountain […]
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2 July 2007
Blasphemy: The Case Against Ruby on Rails
In our last post I fawned over Ruby on Rails (RoR) like a schoolboy smitten by the new girl (let’s call her Ruby) at school. So, like the schoolboy’s heart wrenching realization that he mistook Ruby’s “hello, world” smile for a tender “will - you - be - my - boyfriend” countenance, I present a […]
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27 June 2007
Ruby on Rails as a Platform of Choice? The Case for Rails.
I’ll preface this post, by stating there are people infinitely more qualified in our company to discuss the technical merits of Ruby on Rails (RoR) as a framework choice. I write this post from the various perspectives of the “president,” “idea guy,” the sometimes “project manager,” and the “unresponsive stakeholder.”
There is much hullabaloo about RoR […]
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7 June 2007
Revenue on Ruby on Rails …
Okay, so its not the most poetic title, but that’s what you get when Captain Alliteration gets your login and password. For the last 18 months we at ALTERthought have been diving into the deep end of the Ruby on Rails (RoR) pool. The technologies are clearly compelling for a number of reasons that are […]
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5 June 2007
5 Ingredients for the Application Development ROI Soup
Fact: The way most of us in the industry calculate Return on Investment (ROI) for software application development is broken.
As we continue to work with our partners, competitors, and clients, I am continually stunned by how companies quantify the business value gained from application development and integration work they perform. Typically, its an after-the-fact analysis […]
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31 May 2007
ALTERthought is hiring dotNET Engineers
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ALTERthought has a ground floor opportunity for a .NET software engineer/analyst. This opportunity will allow the candidate to make his or her mark on the organization through diverse responsibilities in groundbreaking internal and client services initiatives. The individual will serve as a key technological leader for complex distributed systems (re)-engineering projects. The Software Engineer/Analyst […]
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13 December 2006
Licence Management for Java Web Applications Using Aspects
This post provides step by setp instruction on implementing license management for Java web applications. I have used open source product TrueLicense for license management and aspects to weave the license verification into the code.
TrueLicense Library Collection(TLC) is a collection of Java packages to securely create, install and verify license for closed source products. TLC […]
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25 July 2006
Java on Rails? Trails: What it is (and isn’t)
Much to-do has been made recently about Rails, and the productivity gains that are to be had from the infrastructure it provides. Listed among these gains comes a productivity boost that can be had from the embracing of a Domain Driven Development approach, whereby the developer concentrates on the Domain model and the framework (in […]
