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5 July 2007

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 […]

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20 July 2006

Developing RESTful Web Services in Java

When you think of Web services, SOAP immediately comes to your mind. Not any more! Thanks to REST, there is a simpler way to develop web services. While SOAP is well established with most vendors supporting it, REST is really catching up.
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems. REST relies […]

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29 June 2006

Integrating Spring and the Struts Validator (transparently)

A client recently approached my company looking for specialized training/mentoring on how to introduce the Spring framework into their Struts fronted J2EE applications. One of the topics of particular interest was a desire to use Spring to (somehow) apply the same validation rules that are implemented in the Struts Validator for their UI to […]