Wise will be at JUDCon (Berlin 7-8 October)

I’ll present Wise projcet during next upcoming JUDcon.
As you can see from the agenda the speech will part of “Soa and integration track” and will be focused on this points:

  • Wise core:
    • Support of WS-*
    • Integration in ESB
    • One line WS calls
    • API to explore the dynamic generated stubs
  • Wise-wegui:
    • A tool to help business analysts during validation tests of WS
    • The legacy web GUI and how it has been used in my company during the last year
    • The upcoming GWT gui
  • LMS: Logging Meta Service
  • The Wise Code donation: why have I donated my pet project to JBoss.org

I’ll post there a report of the speech and slides too.

I hope I’ll have also opportunities to have some interesting lightning talks about Wise and/or TestedBy during spare time there. Twitter, comment on the blog, or email are all fine if you want to contact me about that. I’ll probably post in next days some proposal to have a run together too :)

IronJacamar Beta2 released

Just a little cross post to inform my readers that the project I’m working on full time as Core Developer at JBoss has reached Beta2.
Since I never write about it here, let me explain that IronJcamar implements the Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6 specification.
This is a quite great release, and we are eager to have your feedback.
We have added support for our extension to specification deployment descriptors. They are designed with easy-to-use for final users requirements in mind. These formats are set to be ones used in JBoss Application Server 7, so be sure to check out the XSDs and send your feedback.

My wife is ready for Linux (Fedora)…or better Linux is ready for non-geeks

Really a short story to share with you, really just few words written in my lunch break.

The Windozen on my wife’s laptop has stopped to work at the beginning of August. What are the news here?
I’ve proposed her to switch to fedora. She have been in doubts, saying:
“I’m not a geek, I just use pc to navigate on internet, read email, write few docs and so on…I don’t want to learn another system, can’t you try to recover my system?”
Me: “Well, give it a try. I’ll backup the full image of your disk, and if you will not be happy with the new system, I’ll restore it and I’ll try to recover it”
She: “Ok, you won. Let’s try this Linux”

After more than one month she is of course still using Linux and loving it. She have never open a console, and probably she will not ever do that…but it was exactly the idea. It demonstrate that Linux is perfectly fine for “normal-non-geek” user for internet surfing, emails, some docs and so on.
She had just 2 comments. The first is very positive: “Wow…it’s fast, what have you done to my laptop more than installing Linux? Have you done some strange thing..how do you call it…. over-clocking?” :) of course I haven’t done anything else more than Fedora installation!
The second a bit less positive: “this fu****ing sw to manage my ipod have lost the freshly created playlist…against!”. Here I have to say I haven’t found a good (intuitive) alternative to iTunes on Linux and it is the only defect she have found and she continuously remember me on the new system.
Any suggestion of a good iTunes alternative?

An interesting point is that she haven’t yet asked me for any document backed up too…it demonstrate that wife (and I think almost “normal” user) is ready also for a pure net-pc in a cloud environment having everything she need stored in her google account and/or other online service (except pictures and movies of our daughter for which we have a RAID of external disks :D ). And please note my wife is non-geek, but really intensive computer user.

Wise have new cool logo

Wise Logo

This is the new logo for Wise. Cool, isn’t it?

We’re excited to officially have our new brand. Thank you very much to James Cobb and Cheyenne Weaver for our new logo, graphics and other branding help.

As said in previous post we are backing on Wise giving it a new life with a lot of development on the road. And we had to do them with this owl observing us so seriously :)

Don’t forget desktop wallpapers and/or to wear your open source pride!

Small open source projects are difficult to keep alive. And what about Wise and TestedBy?

Hi all,
another time I have to say that a long time has passed since my last post :(

Well, I’ve been very very busy in last months driving (or at least help a lot to drive) a big change in my former company, leading a key project with more than fifty programmers involved distributed in various team, with a lot of biz analysts and so on. But it’s another story I’ll probably tell you at some point. But the important word in last sentence is former. Yep, who is following me on twitter (or have recently read about_us page or even is linked with me on linkedin) knows I’ve joined  Red Hat as Principal Software Engineer in JBoss division. That’s a cool interesting job (I’m working on IronJacamar project and AS7 development), but it’s making me very busy.

Anyway, back to the title of this post. It’s matter of fact that is very hard to keep alive open source projects in spare time. And maybe in last months some people thought that Wise is an almost dead project, and TestedBy a totally dead one. In fact we had very few time to  work on Wise and also on TestedBy for all the reasons stated above. But they aren’t dead and we are getting back on them (check last week commits for both!).

In particular Alessio is working on Wise to full support JBossWS-CXF container, while I’m planning to cleanup ESB module to support the last version (maybe after Alessio’s work). After that we will work on our object mapping subsystem needed to continue the implementation of our WebUI.

I’m refining in the mean time samples of TestedBy to make possible to release the first version of the project. BTW very probably we will leave “TestedBy” name and we will launch the first release of the project with a new cool name. I’ll keep you post here.

As said keeping open source project alive in spare time isn’t easy, and sometime it’s very very hard specially if contributors are very few and very busy. Would you be part of a cool open source project, with all the beauty of that? We would need in particular contributions for TestedBy in Eclipse area, but if you would land an hand in other area and/or in Wise we are fine with that too. Please contact us, your help could make the difference!

Last but not least Wise have a new very very cool logo. Thanks to Red Hat Design team and in particular to Cheynne for that! No link here…it merits a dedicated post!

As said a lot of cool stuffs are coming…stay tuned.