Staying informed, but how? One of the important aspects in all parts of our life, but specifically in our professional life, is to stay informed. While this was done in previous times using only a limited number of sources and resources, it has become a typical aspect of today’s knowledge workers to ensure that we [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2009
WordPress Internals discovery
Well, as is evident by some of my posts and also visible on this page, I’m using WordPress for managing this blog. And as also can be recognized, I’m interested in Software Development. So it might be obvious to combine the two interest in understanding more about the internals and the architecture of WordPress. So [...]
Test and Deploy in virtual times Part 3
So, now that we have a running OpenSolaris install in our VirtualBox, let’s get to the next step: Installation of Glassfish and MySQL First: Installation of Glassfish Let’s take the easy approach and use the built-in graphical tools. This is specifically easy as both applications are integrated into OpenSolaris Package Manager. So startup the Package [...]
Test and Deploy in virtual times Part 2
Well, this week we are going to continue the installation of the Deployment Environment. The goal for this effort was to “Use Open Source Solution and latest Technology to create a Development and Deployment environment on one system (in my case: MacBook Pro)” Here is a summary of the steps I’m taking: Installation of IDE [...]
Test and Deploy in virtual times
An important part of any Software development is to ensure that deployment works as desired. While in previous times a developer was trying to get a separate server to test the deployment, this can now be done through virtualization on the very same system. So here is my journey and approach to it which I [...]
Resolve WordPress Image upload errors
Well, one of the miracles of Software is why some applications expect high permissions for their work. I’ve worked on a new blog entry today (which is about installation and setup of a develop and deployment environment for developers on MacBook, using OpenSolaris, VirtualBox, Glassfish, MySQL and Netbeans). Wanted to add a screenshot to the [...]