sleepcoding

Not focused on anything specific, last week was one of those i had to multitask, so there are more than one subject that deserves a few words. I also am in a state where i both want and don’t want to talk about them, which usually means the post will be more like my weekly reports rather than an article.

Our new shiny cluster of 12 machines arrived at last, just in time to put my hands on HBase 0.90. As usual, I ran in pseudo-distributed mode first, then re-packaged it with our configuration details and sent it over for deploying. Almost nothing has changed in terms of configuration details or API, so everything went as smooth as it could get. Our sysadmin made me laugh when he warned me not to go guns and blazin on machines because they were not placed on rack and i might burn some CPUs. It would be fun though.

I regret to say that we had to go seam for that activiti integrated human-resources application (seam is an application framework that i do not want to link to. I guess that is my way of protesting it. Not that anyone cares). It was for certain even while i was drafting my last post, but i needed to ignore those facts and live in the peaceful world of play! just a little bit more. Now that dream has ended and i went back to JBoss workshop. Although it was a bit painful, i was able to pull of a maven and maven-jetty-plugin trick on seam 2. That saved me from the 40 sec startup of JBoss AS but i think i’m gonna have to live with the lump of unresolved-and-we-don’t-even-care-to-resolve-just-use-sth-else bugs of seam. I am not sure if i should write about the experience. Anyone in need of something like seam/maven/jetty integration may google it to find things that don’t work out of the box, but help to build a working pom.xml. In my opinion, anyone in need of seam should just use something else.

BTW, i know that it’s highly probable its just my allergies on this seam matter. @mozcelebi is using it with whole JBoss stack and is pretty happy with it. Moving on.

I am not an expert but i think we people prefer talking about the things we don’t like over talking about the things we like. I am trying to avoid doing that, so i will write a post about how i did integrate activiti with seam in order to raise my karma over the last paragraph. And this time i would be talking more about activiti, i need good things happening nowadays.

As a dessert, i tried to polish some details with plevsy. I added a few more CRUD screens and tweaked some UI to make use of those new data. There was nothing worthy to note on UI/Evently end past week, but i tried to discover couches on local network by sending JSONP requests all over it using web workers. It was fun. I can’t even begin to tell how delightful it is to be working with couchdb. They couldn’t have found a better motto than “Relax”. Note-to-self: should write about that web worker discovery experiment soon. On the other hand, plevsy is not without some factors that suck this fun and relaxed parts out of it. Note-to-self: should not write anything about these in order to, you know, keep my karma.