One Step Forward - 5 Steps back (and then some around)

Busy, Busy, Busy!

*sigh* I really want the time to carry on with my Project.

Right now I am busy with work related projects (Need to port my application from Flex to Adobe AIR). Very interesting things have also crossed my path lately: IBM sMash for starters (based on Project Zero).

I have also been spending some time thinking about my masters lately. I am contemplating a topic based on the Semantic Web.

Situational Applications, Rich Internet Applications, Semantic Web, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Oriented Architecture (?!), Ontologies.... I could go on. I have so much on my mind and so little time to get around to it.

I am about to ask for an review copy of Apache JMeter from Packt Publishing. I need to do some unit testing against our WebSphere back end system. Holding thumbs! (If I get a copy, a review here will follow).

Step 1.1

I am definitely going to stop putting time lines on my delivery.

Subversion installed on SuSe Linux 10.1. (I should have stuck with Windows) - Thanks Marnus for the help! What a pain.

I realized:

1) My Linux skills gave gone to s*it
2) SuSe is a terrible distribution (but the only one at my disposal)
3) Linux hasn't gotten any friendlier in the 5 years since I have last seriously used it.
4) I cant function without Apt

Now time to page through the Pragmatic Programmers Version Control with Subversion book.

Speak soon(ish)

Step 1: Version Control System Choice

Okay, so I am actually going to start (one month later than planned). Before finding a place to host the project, I am going to store the source locally.

First step for me (usually) is to create my project structure and check it into CVS. But since CVS seems to have outgrown it's usefulness (much like struts in the web MVC world), I am going to use Subversion (which i have used on a project recently - but as a client).

I am going to do most of my development on Windows (for various reasons). Installing Subversion onto a windows server is my next activity. I hope subversion behaves better on Windows than CVS does.

BTW: I am using the book: "Java Power Tools" from O'Reilly to evaluate all the tools for building my project. This one seems a no-brainer (famous last words).

I will install in the next day or so and report back.

There can be only one first time

Thanks Mr Marnus for the kewl name for this blog.

This blog is for me. If someone else reads it, nice. If not, thats okay too!

I basically need a place to organize my thoughts around life and technology. I am about to start my first open source project. It has been too long since I have coded a project and played with open source technologies. The reasons for this is my role at work (Architect, whatever that means) and our platform, IBM WebSphere.

I have an idea for a useful application (it will definitely be useful at work) and now it is time to play (and by play, i mean work).

I am really gonna enjoy this ride!