Jose Diaz-Gonzalez

The Optimal Open Source Project Homepage

I've take many detours with my current project, and one of them has led me to the following thought: Why are so many Open Source home pages designed so badly?

In the process of downloading a CMS, I realized that I no longer could find the actual download for the software.

Take a look at the joomla page. It took me a solid 3 minutes to find the black "DOWNLOAD JOOMLA" button on the right-hand side. I've worked with Joomla for a few years now, since the Mambo fork, and I have to say that this really caught me by surprise. It isn't even apparent what the latest release might be (1.5.8 if you were wondering). Not very user-friendly.

Posted at 12:06AM Dec 12, 2008 by Jose Diaz-Gonzalez in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Using PHP within a GlassFish Server

While working on a related project, we've developed a working version of PHP within a GlassFish server. This is incredibly useful as it will allow developers to potentially scale their PHP applications, as well as allowing all the benefits of a GlassFish server. The implementation utilizes PHP via Java Bridge, and as such each version of PHP may have different functionality; standardized, fully-featured PHP compiles are in the pipeline. Currently tested as working on Solaris and some OS X machines, with PHP compiled but not tested within Linux and Windows. However, we'd like to increase that to all platforms, so any bug reports are appreciated.

Source Code can be checked out via SVN at the following link, as well as the wiki and issue tracker. This is still a work in progress and more features and various improvements will follow soon.

http://kenai.com/projects/glassfishresources

Hopefully I'm not jumping the gun, but I would really like some feedback and quality control. :-)

Posted at 05:39AM Nov 04, 2008 by Jose Diaz-Gonzalez in Sun  |  Comments[2]