Technology drops

Twitter trying to find a way to capitalize their investments

Juanjo — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:06:20 +0000

Twitter has recently changed their API Terms Of Service introducing some things in order to avoid other enterprises to get cash from their investments. Essentially, third-party developers should no longer try to compete with Twitter on clients; instead they should focus on things like data and specific verticals for tweets.

See the new from techcrunch: http://goo.gl/xgCdH

New times for twitter!! By the way, you can follow me on twitter @juanjovilla

Is there a platform to rule them all?

Juanjo — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:43:34 +0000

Nowadays every user seems to be able to have opinion about technology issues. If you have one account on facebook you are the master of social networks. If you are a “twitterer”, the T-Shirt you are wearing must be a bird over the “Wordpress” tomb, and so on and so on. Technology is inside our lives and we use it more and more but, are all of us experts on technology or we are just “fans” of what we are using?

Is there a platform/product to rule them all? I don’t think so. For instance, WordPress is a great tool but, is this the best platform to build a portal? Same thing to Facebook, Google Sites, etc.

One ring to rule them all

The most important thing, and the first one we must do, is thinking about our needs. The second step is evaluating platforms to cover those functional requirements. These are the steps and we shouldn’t modify the order of them.

REST vs SOAP: Exclusive or complementary?

Juanjo — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:28:03 +0000

Today I jave founded a very interesting post regarding when to use SOAP or REST.

Some interesting and simple guidelines: http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-soap-when-to-use-each

Business Activity Monitoring. Tool or home-made?

Juanjo — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:37:47 +0000

Hi,

Currently I’m working on the health eReceipt Project for the Government I work for. The concept is simple: when someone goes to a doctor and he finds something needing some medicine, the doctor does not have to give the patient any paper. Instead of that, he/she inserts the data on an Information System associated with that person.

After that, he/she goes to a pharmacy, identifies his/herself and the pharmaceutical can access to his/her information and gives the medicine he/she needs.

To get that simple goal, there are many processes and information systems involved and it’s a great opportunity to be innovative. We are willing to deploy new Data Base version and clustered architecture, new Business Intelligence Suite… and many other new software. Exciting, isn’t it? Our client is able to make that investment because this could be the seed for the new health information systems in the future. It’s time to innovate. Lucky to be here now!

The last piece we are willing to test is some Business Activity Monitoring software (see Business Activity Monitoring). The purpose of this kind of software is to monitor on-line how your business is behaving, define rules, alerts.. We need to get that information, but I think we are being too innovative and the technological risk is increasing. Maybe this could be something we could make ourselves… we will see.

Any experience about that appreciated.

Bye!

Google Chrome OS. The computer on the web

Juanjo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:06:35 +0000

A little bit late but I have just noticed that Google Chrome OS (http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os ) has been Open Sourced. The idea is simple: more and more we user the internet for everything so, do we need a regular Operating System anymore? Well, I think “yes” would be the right answer but “googlers” has not the same opinion about that. If they are right, computers as we know today could suffer a truly revolution. Microsoft has already made their first steps on that direction offering some of their Office products on the web and providing cloud services on Azure Platform…

Is that the right choice? Will Google be right again?

JAVA EE 6 is here

Juanjo — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:00:00 +0000

Good news for java developers community. JEE final release spec has been published yesterday. It includes some very interesting new features such as: JSF 2.0, new build-in dependency injection, WebBeans/CDI, bean validation… Some of them, imho., introduce some “complexities-for-free” not needed in many cases but, stuff like bean validation, gives facilities to JEE developers to follow good architectural principles (and avoids extra-work).

Here you have the URL for the spec: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=316

Now, it’s time to wait for vendors to offer these new features in their application servers. I’m excited about this.

e-Prescription, what a wonderful world!

Juanjo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:15:40 +0000

I’m just starting with my “seconds” steps on Healthcare information systems. I was working some years ago in a project regarding some data replication software (about e-Prescription) but the visibility for this, from the business point of view, was minimal. Now, it seems my work will start focusing on Healthcare systems, particularly on e-Prescription.

The first objective for this is “time-to-market”. There is one previous “made-at-home” application already deployed on some pharmacies but, the integration needed and functionality provided, seems to be insufficient for massive deployment. The integration between general Medical System and the one for e-Prescription is based on a weak solution and we think it won’t be able to support the work load in the future.

The client is thinking about deploying one packaged solution vs analyzing the current solution and many “re-engineering” in order to be able to provide more robustness. The last alternative is more risky but an exciting integration project. For a technician like me, more attractive. On the same way, is very difficult to change and deploy Information Systems for the Healthcare on a very shot time (less than a year is a very short time to change such a critical system) so, the deployment of another solution than the one we have, seems to be impossible. Which will be the decision we will take? I guess one, but the uncertainty is still there.

Regards

JSF 2.0 is already here. What’s new?

Juanjo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:31:16 +0000

Hi,

If you are starting within JSF 2.0 technology, you will probably find this article very interesting: http://andyschwartz.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/whats-new-in-jsf-2/

This new version of JSF spec. is already here (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314). Now it’s time to see how fast different vendors move to support this new exciting version witch, I guess, is the definitive push to this technology to become the most used view technology in JEE applications.

Regards.

The best voice platform ever… provided by… Google!

Juanjo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:07:32 +0000

I have just know about Google Voice (sorry if I’m old fashioned). IMHO this is the best service provided by any mobile/phone operator ever. I wish Google to empower this initiative worldwide.

Short AJAX Frameworks comparison

Juanjo — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:55:38 +0000

I have been reading this article comparing different JavaScript frameworks http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/ajax_framework_analysis_results

It is very focused on Java development style and on the particular situation of an existing team very expert on developing JEE projects (with no much Javascript experience). If that is your key, maybe a JSF implementation such as JBoss Rich Faces http://www.jboss.org/jbossrichfaces/ could be in the list? It should have more implications than just adding some RIA-style interface to applications, but that possibility exists.

I suggest you to keep an eye on the article and on the comments to it. There is no silver bullet to all situations but is interesting to read. Wish it can help.