http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/ A space to share my experiences, ideas and thoughts... en-us 2007-01-23T11:38:02+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000031.html Great post about Resume Driven Development going on at many software firms nowadays! Definitely recommended...... IT Related armond 2007-01-23T11:38:02+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000030.html Okay, according to the project explanations here, it is definitely possible to decorate any web site backed by any server side technology (assuming the server has J2EE support too) using SiteMesh. Anyone reading those explanations for the first time may think of an off-the-shelf support, like you drop SiteMesh jar and your web.xml and it works! But how much is this true in real world especially when you want to apply such solution on a living website which is already in production not just a test "localhost" site? Don't get me wrong... SiteMesh itself is a great framework and I've... Java armond 2006-11-30T13:54:33+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000029.html A perfect set of JVM options on SPARC/Solaris platform but not all of them are platform specific. Very handy... Well, actually dropping it here for my later reference ;-) Armond... Java armond 2004-11-17T09:11:32+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000028.html It was just a few days ago I was talking to some guys on how to setup their development environment, how to apply some good development practices, setting up the build system, automation and so... Our focus was on testing and mostly TDD then the next day I came into this crazy idea on Aslak's blog and a tool called Guantanamo. The idea is to remove any untested code on building process. The tool can be exposed as ANT task to do the job! Frankly, all I've ever used, have been reporting tools such as Clover to give me an... Java armond 2004-10-07T18:34:43+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000027.html Well, seems that the X [Design] Pattern subjects are hot these days and more and more of such stuffs coming into scene... It was just a while ago when I got into Dating Design Patterns book but I'd simply forgotten it (as usual!) till now that I read this blog entry. Anyways, it's another set of patterns but this time, they're for dating ;-) Perhaps so useful for many of IT geeks who understand the patterns language the best! Have Happy Datings! Armond... IT Related armond 2004-08-04T10:58:11+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000026.html Great set of Resign Patterns, Ailments of Unsuitable Project-Disoriented Software, by Michael Duell. Real competitor to GOF Design Patterns ;-) Lots of fun there! Take a look if you're a strict fan of the patterns! Armond... IT Related armond 2004-07-25T14:54:09+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000025.html IT Related armond 2004-06-23T14:11:55+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000024.html Photography has been my new love recently and a great hobby for me since I've got my Canon G3! As many of you there I'm also learning about the techniques both on digital concepts and pure photography, and really enjoy following the discussions. Bob Atkins has put a very good article on Photo.net about the common file formats the digital cameras support and how they differ. Yes, RAW, JPG and TIFF are three of the main players these days on digital photography world, but you should know which one is suitable in any time. Nice responses from people, even you'll... Photography armond 2004-06-13T10:10:03+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000023.html Just thought it may be interesting for you to see how java.sun.com site looked like in the old days of java, even when there was no such technology announced. I was surfing the net while I got into this page from Martin Hardee :-) It's amazing when you compare the first (March '95) and last (Dec '03) screenshots. Lots of changes but I'm not sure they couldn't get into this point little sooner! Armond... Java armond 2004-06-12T15:37:03+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000022.html Surfing among my RSS feeds when I got into Daniel's posting ("More on Job Hunting") and the pretty nice thread with all different but great opinions, he'd mentioned on his blog. Here is what I believe and experienced in my life. Please note that these are all about hiring a developer and so, neither a consultant nor designer or so, as their interview types differs a lot from view... I've never been directly in charge of hiring nor owned a company or so, but in many cases, I've been asked for doing the technical interviews. So to me, as an... Java armond 2004-05-23T14:20:28+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000021.html Java armond 2004-05-09T11:57:36+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000020.html Hrm... when I'm going in WIKI notation on my blog, usually I forget that I'm not using Confluence... Heavily making use of macros, interwiki links, emoticons and so on then find out you have none of them is a total piss-off! Having my blog here (MovableType) support Textile plugin, I wish I had the full Confluence notation support on Textile too. Alas... Armond... IT Related armond 2004-05-08T17:43:51+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000019.html While I'm closely tracking the discussions, reviews and talkings on the next generation EJB architechture (and really glad to see the officially acceptance of POJOs and DIs/IOCs by major vendors), I do agree with Dion on the concerns he has. Really why should they see the backward compatibility as mandatory while they're going to go for simplicity by changing the whole model and architechture? A trick to keep the current vendors still as the main players without allowing any new comers to expose what they have for EJB 3.0 only ? Look at Spring ... I'm sure there will be... Java armond 2004-05-08T16:59:11+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000018.html Experiences finally got its new home on my own domain, up and running here! Great thanks to Mike and Atlassian for hosting my blog so far... The sad news (at least for me!) is that my hosting doesn't have any Java support so I have to go mostly with CGI, Perl and PHP! Since I've been using MovableType from the day one and I found it far better than other PHP players out there, so just decided to stick with it. Also having no data migration headache push me more on this way... I wish I could install Confluence for... General armond 2004-05-06T09:53:29+03:30 http://blogs.armondavanes.com/experiences/archives/000017.html Well, finally I have my own web photo album up! Did I mention it has been generated with my favorite java-based album generator software JAlbum and my own BluPlusPlus skin? ;-) It's mostly about nature photography with some exceptions on my own photos too! I've shared as many as I could as I had plenty of spaces there on server to go on and more will be added later... Please let me know if you get into any flaw, or have any comments, suggestions and so on. Armond... Photography armond 2004-03-31T11:40:47+03:30