Wotif.com, a good GlassFish experience (available as audio podcast)

Greg Luck, Wotif.com's Chief Architect has a GlassFish case-study available as the latest GlassFish Podcast episode.

A gentleman at the end asks a question about whether this was truly a successful GlassFish experience for Wotif.com given the issues faced before going into production. Having been in sales for the past 7 years and still pretty involved, I think that this certainly qualifies as a good experience but you probably need to listen to the podcast and to Greg's answer to this question.

If you haven't heard of Wotif.com, they're the largest hotel booking site in Australia, and growing.

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GlassFish Podcasts so far...

•  Episode #007 - Interview with Kohsuke Kawaguchi about Hudson
•  Episode #006 - Interview with George Tharakan about OpenMQ and JMS
•  Episode #005 - Interview with Kedar Mhaswade about GlassFish Deployment
•  Episode #004 - Interview with Snjezana Sevo-Zenzerovic about the GlassFish Update Center
•  Episode #003 - Interview with Shreedhar Ganapathy on GlassFish Clustering and Shoal
•  Episode #002 - Interview with Vivek Pandey on GlassFish Web Services (part 2 of 2: WSIT/Tango, WS-*)
•  Episode #001 - Interview with Vivek Pandey on GlassFish Web Services (part 1 of 2: JAX-WS, JAXB, ...)

Two more interviews still need editing. JavaPolis should be a great place to do a couple more of those. But interviews aren't everything in podcasts so I'll try starting a series of news episodes with a fellow GlassFish community member. Stay tuned...

( nov. 25 2007, 10:56:26 PM CET ) Permalink

OpenMQ on the latest GlassFish podcast episode

Yet another GlassFish podcast interview is out. This one is on OpenMQ and JMS. Several users have voted OpenMQ the GlassFish best kept secret (features, performance, & stability). The latest MQ 4.1 (integrated in GlassFish v2) has high-availability of both brokers and message stores.

Linda has a nice set posts on both JMS and the MQ open source product. In the interview, George also goes into topics such as the new SPECjms benchmark.

( nov. 18 2007, 01:55:40 PM CET ) Permalink

Update Center interview on the GlassFish Podcast is out

I've previously discussed various aspects of the GlassFish Update Center.
You can now listen to the project lead in this new GlassFish podcast interview.

( nov. 13 2007, 11:59:26 AM CET ) Permalink

Making podcast progress...

So I pushed out the second episode of the GlassFish Podcast just before the week-end. I think the sound is much better than with episode one (I'll try to find time to improve that one) but there's certainly room for improvement. Any suggestion as how I should enhance the voice and sound quality are welcome.

I'm currently using Audacity and finding it a nice tool for podcast editing although it's more geared towards music recording. In particular, I'm finding it hard to set correct volume levels. Part of that is due to the fact I did the interviews with a single microphone which I was holding like an ice cream while some interviewees were speaking quite softly and holding the mike at arm's distance. So one of the first thing I do is split the two voices into separate mono channels. But even then, the Amplify effect does clipping and the minimum increase (0.1 dB) is still too high so I've been setting the Gain for each track.

I've managed to jump through the Apple hoops to get it listed on iTunes (not the most reliable or the fastest service I've seen). Now I'm curious as to what other "podcatchers" people are using. Talking recently to a GlassFish user, it seems that the runner up is WinAmp. Anything I should do to make this podcast easier to listen for the non-iTunes people? What do Linux people use? jPodder?

So far mp3 downloads are in the hundreds (400 for the first episode actually) with a reported 20 subscribers to the feed via feedburner (day average).

( nov. 05 2007, 12:24:44 AM CET ) Permalink

Episode #001 of GlassFish Podcast is live

I've just pushed out the first entry of the GlassFish Podcast (interview with Vivek Pandey on Metro)

It's far from perfect (Vivek's audio level is a bit low, the iTunes store doesn't yet have it listed, can't yet figure out the direct URL for subscribing in iTunes, etc...), but I had to get the ball rolling.

You can expect about a dozen episodes over the coming weeks, all interviews of GlassFish leads. Please send comments and suggestions to glassfishpodcast@sun.com.REMOVE.

( oct. 29 2007, 10:32:53 AM CET ) Permalink

SDPY - From JavaCast to JavaPosse

Well, a LOT has happened since the fall of the JavaCast. If you're into podcasts (what a better way to commute!) you need to listen to the JavaPosse. Show #141 and going strong!

( sept. 11 2007, 06:00:00 PM CEST ) Permalink