Having covered the Model and Controller aspects of Rails in previous posts, that really means it has to be View next. I’ve already touched on the basics: the controller method renders a template, either explicitly or simply by exiting and allowing the default template for the action to rendered, and the attributes of the controller class setup by the action method are then available to the template.
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Rails Overview: View
Friday, July 20th, 2007Connecting Enterprise Applications to WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
Friday, July 20th, 2007Andrew is plugging the draft of his Redbook Connecting Enterprise Applications to WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus over on SOA Tips ‘n’ Tricks and rightly so as it’s well worth a look. If you thought that WebSphere ESB was just about SOAP/HTTP then this book should set you straight. It covers details of integration via WebSphere MQ, JDBC and HTTP and connecting to CICS. I’ve been working on the labs for the corresponding ITSO Workshop rolling out later this year.
Gallery rewrites are back
Monday, July 16th, 2007Many thanks to Ilya Azarov who answered my plea for assistance and supplied his nginx rewrite rules for Gallery2. I won’t claim to understand why his work and mine didn’t (although previously I wasn’t aware that you could nest location directives so that was something I hadn’t tried). They still can’t cope with spaces in file names but I can live with that.
VMware Converter
Monday, July 16th, 2007I’ve had a nice shiny T60 on loan for the past couple of months for a project I’ve been working on. Unfortunately the time came to return it, at which point I thought I’d try out the free version of VMware Converter. This enables you to take a physical machine and convert it to a VMware image. The idea was that I would create an image of the laptop before giving it back in case there was something on it I still needed.
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Changing servers
Friday, July 13th, 2007So, it’s been a little bit quiet on this blog for the past few days. The main reason is that it’s been on the move from the hosting provided by our ISP (PlusNet) to my SliceHost slice. Things would have been much quicker had I not decided to switch Apache for the increasingly popular (due to its low memory usage) nginx.
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IBM Resource Adapter for JMS with WebSphere Application Server
Thursday, July 5th, 2007I’ve mentioned the IBM Client for JMS on J2SE with IBM WebSphere Application Server on a couple of occasions. As the name suggests, this provides you with a couple of JAR files that allow a standalone J2SE application to act as a JMS client to the WebSphere Application Server default messaging provider. What it isn’t good for, is acting as a client from another, third-party, application server. Yes it may work but you don’t get all those good things that an application server provides, like XA transaction coordination and parallel message consumption using MDBs. Enter the IBM Resource Adapter for Java Message Service with WebSphere Application Server which allows you to do just these things. Note that it’s currently only tested on Apache Geronimo V1.2 and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition V1.1 but it’s a JCA 1.5 compliant resource adapter so should work with any J2EE 1.4 application server. Also note that, as with the original client, this download is initially only available with an early access license. If you are interested in using it in production though, drop a note to the e-mail address in the technical support section.
Rails Overview: Controller
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007In the previous entry of this series I covered the model part of the MVC support in Rails. The view and controller support is very tightly linked (more so than in, say, Struts) but I’ll start with the controller just to be contrary.
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WebSphere Technical Conference
Monday, July 2nd, 2007I’ve just submitted my abstracts for the WebSphere Technical Conference to be held in Vienna at the beginner of November. If you’re a European WebSphere customer then I’d highly recommend attending. Sign up before 5 August and get a 100 Euro discount. Hope to see you there!
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