Decided to move from the blogspot address (http://distilledtemplate.blogspot.com) to this one mainly because of the ridiculous amount of comment spam. And because the WordPress CMS rocks. The group of developers I used to work with at ibiblio just released the 0.6 beta of Lyceum, a multi-user blogging package that uses WordPress. Check it out — very cool stuff.
November 2005
Monthly Archive
November 23, 2005
November 16, 2005
Been a while since I updated…
Here’s a project that I and a partner have been working on for my Enterprise Systems class. Mostly lots of Websphere and DB2, but we’re looking at integrating some Ajax stuff to increase the responsiveness of our UI. Not sure how that’ll hold up with the linear model of EJBs, but we’ll see…
As usual, i’m also working on the Kamikazi site. Flash is interesting, but it still feels like it has a long way to go before becoming popular as a web application framework (complete with server-side functionality, etc.) The site uses PHP and MySQL for the news/feedback sections and XML for the gallery and exec profiles. There’s a lot of impressive work going on with Laszlo and other third-party libraries that make it easy to develop nice flash apps quickly.
My IBM work… can’t really talk about it..
As a side-note, anyone notice Penny-Arcade’s switch to Ruby on Rails? Pretty awesome; apparently Rails was holding up nicely for them, or at least a lot better than their PHP implementation (everything loads very fast). Recently though, it seems like their entire site went kaput; only their main page works, and the other pages timeout. There are some weird style issues with their site though.. and sometimes it asks me to download an html page, which I can’t quite understand either. It might be some wrongly configured file in their Ruby server. Ah well, I might check out RoR one of these days. I think there’s something similar to Rails for PHP called Cake..
