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jMaki, Phobos, Grizzly, and Toplink Essentials Aggregator

I built some more aggregators (mashing up feeds from Bloglines, Findory, Google Blog Search, Technorati, IceRocket) and here is the complete list:

UPDATE: Found this great Yahoo! Pipes video tutorials.

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Screencast #WS4: How to install WSIT plug-in on NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 using Update Center ?

NetBeans 5.5.1 IDE Beta was released earlier this week. Along with it, the WSIT plug-in modules were released as part of Update Center. So now if you want to install WSIT plug-in in NetBeans, you no longer have to manually download the modules and then install them. This screencast shows you how to install the WSIT plug-in on NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 using Update Center.

Enjoy it here.

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Which version of WSIT, GlassFish, NetBeans and Plug-in ?

WSIT bits are already integrated in GlassFish v2. So if you download GlassFish v2 then you have all the WSIT functionality available to you. If you are interested in a bleeding edge build, then you can download a nightly build (untested builds) and  install it on top of an existing GlassFish installation. If you are interested in a slightly  stable build, then you can download the  promoted build as we perform limited testing on these builds. And then there are milestone builds which are tested on multiple platforms with a full verification of WSIT plugin, tutorial, samples, and interop tests.

WSIT Milestone 3 was released last week. The table below provides a combination of tools, plug-in and builds that is known to work:

Or to keep it really simple, you can download latest GlassFish v2 promoted build (WSIT already integrated) and NetBeans Enterprise Pack 5.5.1 (WSIT plug-ins already included, select NetBeans version and "Daily" build, click "Continue", and then select "Enterprise Pack" row at the top).

Happy WSITing!

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WSIT Blog Aggregator

Following up from previous blog, I cloned the GlassFish Pipe to create a new pipe that aggregate feeds from Sun WSIT bloggers. Instead of searching different blog engines, as in GlassFish pipe, this is an aggregate of all the feeds produced by the WSIT team at Sun. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of this pipe to view all the entries from the WSIT engineering team.

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GlassFish in Blogosphere Pipe

Ashutosh created a Yahoo Pipe for WSIT to track WSIT-related blogs. This is useful as I don't need to search through multiple sites to find out the information. This is useful stuff so I created a new GlassFish Pipe to track GlassFish blog traffic by mashing up feeds from Bloglines, Technorati, Google Blogsearch, Findory, and IceRocket. If you want to create your own pipe, start here. An easier way to start is to clone the GlassFish pipe and change the parameters.

Yahoo Pipes is a free online interactive feed aggregator that allows to create data mashups.

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Sun-internal jMaki Day Review

Last Friday jMaki team, at Sun Microsystems, arranged a jMaki Day for Sun-internal audience. The day was planned to introduce the technology and explains it's nuts and bolts with hands-on experience. Even though nobody outside Sun could attend it, but all the presos and lab material is available here. 

The morning sessions gave an overview of jMaki and included: 

• Sun, Web 2.0 and jMaki by Arun Gupta (me)
• Introduction to jMaki by Carla Mott
• Phobos and jMaki by Roberto Chinnici
• jMaki Tooling: State of Union 2007 by Ludovic Champenois
• jMaki State of Union 2007 by Greg Murray

The afternoon was BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) hands-on-labs and discussion with the team. It included:

• jMaki Applications - Doris Chen
• jMaki Recipe for building Web 2.0 Apps - Carla Mott
• Mashing it up with jMaki - Greg Murray

The slides for the morning session and hands-on-labs are available. Here are some pictures:

Greg Murray	Attendees	Attendees	Carla Mott
Roberto Chinnici	Doris helping with mic	Ludovic Champenois	Greg Murray
Lunch	Lunch	Hands-on-labs	Hands-on-labs

You can get a flavor of these sessions and labs at Sun Tech Days. 

You can also view a collection of samples (run or download them) put together by Sun's Web 2.0 team. You can also look for a collection of jMaki samples here. All of these samples can be run on GlassFish.

Here are some important jMaki links:

• Value proposition
• Overall framework architecture and features
• Basic Application Structure
• Creating jMaki widgets

Please send any feedback on slides and hands-on-labs to dev-AT-ajax.dev.java.net.

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Week 2 Mileage

Mon: Rest
Tue: 3.5 miles
Wed: 3.5 miles
Thu: Rain
Fri: 5 miles
Sat: 7 miles
Sun: Rain

The goal, for next 2 weeks, is to build up mileage gradually and then start hill runs. I'll definitely need lots of hill runs this time and that's why starting early. For that, Rancho is my friend. I found a great tool that calculates route distance and elevation for any possible route at Rancho so this is going to be handy.

And if you are planning to register for San Francisco Marathon, 3rd tier is sold out as well. The current registration rate is $100, as opposed to $75, $85 & $95 in the previous tiers, and expires on 4/7/7.

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Ask The Experts next Week for JAX WS

If you are new to Web services and would like to know how to write a simple Web service; or if you are a veteran and would like to know performance tuning tips on JAX-WS. Please scratch your head and ask your mind for any questions on anything JAX-WS (2.0 or 2.1) because next week is an open invitation to ask Vivek, Kohsuke and Jitu, representation of Sun's JAX-WS engineering team. JAX-WS team is waiting for your questions and will enjoy answering them.

Although the campaign is scheduled for Feb 26 - Mar 2 but I realize you can already submit questions here.

JAX-WS 2.1 bits are available as part of GlassFish v2.

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Thunderbird keyboard shortcuts

If you use Thunderbird and is a keyboard-heavy user (like me), as opposed to mouse-heavy, then you'd like to know about Thunderbird keyboard shortcuts. I've been particularly interested in "Move to Search Bar" which takes you to the search box on top-right corner of Thunderbird. It can be accessed by "Ctrl + K". In Firefox, I've been using Ctrl+E for this functionality but that means "Edit as New" in Thunderbird. I immediately tried "Ctrl+K" in Firefox and that of course took me to the search bar as well.

Other than that, I already use the following shortcuts in Thunderbird:

New Message: Ctrl + M
Send Message Now: Ctrl + Enter
Reply to Message: Ctrl + R
Reply to All in Message: Ctrl + Shift + R
Increase/Decrease Font size: Ctrl +/-
Get New Message for Current Account: Ctrl+T
Save Message As File: Ctrl+S

Some more shortcuts I learned are:

Move to next mail Pane: F6
Toggle Message Pane: F8

Then there are other fairly intuitive shortcuts. The only other shortcut that I'm missing now is "Change the Search Criteria" in Search Bar. Does anybody know ? Even Firefox does not have this shortcut.

"Move to Search Bar" is my most favorite and heavily used feature in Thunderbird and Firefox. What is yours ?

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Sun Microsystems Silver Jubilee

Sun Microsystems was incorporated on Feb 24th, 1982 - exactly 25 years ago today.

The company name was founded by Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy. It's name is derived from the initials Stanford University Network as two (Scott McNealy & Vinod Khosla) of the original founders were fellow Stanford graduate students. Even the logo was designed by a professor Vaughan Pratt, also of Stanford University. Check out company history on how we have changed the world, for better, in last 25 years. Read "ONCE GIVEN UP FOR DEAD, SUN IS SEEING A NEW ERA DAWN OF PROFIT, GROWTH" that appeared on Mercury News yesterday.

I'm proud to be a Sun employee. Congratulations to each and every employee!

• Sun at 25: Where are the founders now?
• Sun @ 25: What Comes Next? (Part 1 - Interview with John Gage, Part II - Sun Sticks to its Original Mission)
• 25 Years of Innovation

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"India Poised" by Amitabh Bachchan

Read about "India Poised" campaign here. Amitabh Bachchan, Big B, is a Bollywood superstar. In my opinion, and many others (Greatest Star of the Millennium by BBC where he beat Charlie Chaplin and Marlon Brando, Most powerful Indian star by Forbes, Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF),  he is the best actor Bollywood has ever produced so far and it's really nice to see him reciting this anthem. My childhood is full of his movies such as Mr Natwarlal, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Amar Akbar Anthony, Don, Do Aur Do Paanch, Shaan, Naseeb, Satte Pe Satta, Coolie and many more. If you understand Hindi, then I'd recommend to watch that one since, to me, that connects directly to the heart.

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This week is Engineers Week

Read the Presidential Message for National Engineers Week, Feb 18-24 2007. There are various activities planned around this event.

As part of that effort, today is Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. The idea is to reach out K-12 girls with positive message about math and science education and engineering careers. This would hopefully increase women representation in engineering profession. Here is another website celebrating Women in Engineering.

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Screencast #WS3: Reliable and Interoperable Web service using WSIT plug-in, NetBeans and GlassFish

In the third part of the screen cast series (#ws1, #ws2), I show how a reliable and interoperable Web service can be developed and invoked using NetBeans IDE and WSIT plug-in. This screencast also shows how WSIT plugin can be manually installed in NetBeans.

Enjoy it here.

Here is a preview of screen casts that are plannned in the next few weeks.

1. #WS4: Developing a Secure Web service using WSIT plug-in, NetBeans and GlassFish
2. #WS5: Developing a Transactional Web service using WSIT plug-in, NetBeans and GlassFish
3. #WS6: Invoking a .NET 3.0 endpoint using WSIT plug-in, NetBeans and GlassFish
4. #WS7: Developing a simple Web service using WSIT plug-in, NetBeans and Tomcat
5. #WS8: Based upon user requirement, Using GlassFish-bundled Derby database within a Web service built from JSPs.

 Feel free to post suggestions on what would you like to see in terms of Web services development using NetBeans.

UPDATE: See why/when a module may be installed globally versus locally here.

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Polar F11 and Marathon Training

I've started uploading my running log using Polar F11 to their website.

A monthly view provides a summary for the entire month and shows the days on which any kind of physical activity was recorded by F11.

A weekly view provides more detail in terms of finish times, high and low limit of heart rate and total time spent in the week so far.

A daily view allows you to specify the different types of Activity ("Running" below). It shows the timing to the exact second. If I wear the heart rate monitor during the activity, then it calculates the calories burned, fat consumption, maximum heart rate (HRmax) and average heart rate (HRavg, aka resting heart rate).

I'm planning to use this for tracking my marathon training this year. 

I wish, and hope, Polar define a Web service so that users can access their data programmatically or at least allow the data to be exported in a usable format.

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Dilbert on management "help"

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