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Reviving ASP Business Model

Rajesh Jain is writing a series of articles on revival of ASP market.

He mentions in this post about the building blocks of OSS ASP model and gives example of SpikeSource.

SpikeSource run their whole website using OSS. Features include:
- discussion forums - PhpBB
- trouble tickets - OTRS
- Naming directory - Open LDAP
- Web Server - Apache
- Servlet container - Tomcat
- Database - MySQL
- Search - Nutch

They use OSS on intranet. Here is the list:
- MoinMoin wiki for capturing processes, policies, feature requirements, evolving design etc.
- Bugzilla for bug tracking
- Subversion for source code versioning
- Intranet Portal - JetSpeed
- Web email client - SquirrelMail
- Naming Directory - OpenLDAP
- email server - Courier-IMAP

Desktops:
- Operating System and desktop - RHAT, SuSE
- email client - Ximian Evolution
- desktop productivity tools - Open Office
- Browser - Mozilla, FireFox
- Source code editor - Eclipse

Customer relations:
- SugarCRM

This whole series is a very interesting read and food for thought.

Spring Frame Work - Intro Tutorial

ServerSide.com has published Introduction to the Spring Framework. I need to go through this and get started with using spring.

How to write good java code

Today one of my coleague pionted out The Elements of Java Style, a book dedicated to show how to do good java programming.

A pdf for writing robust java code is also available @ http://www.ambysoft.com/javaCodingStandards.pdf

Google search link for The Elements of Java Style

dotCMS - J2EE OSS CRM Based on LifeRay

dotCMS: dotCMS Project Index

dotCMS is a 100% free Content Management System (CMS) that includes a number of attractive features that many proprietary CMS solutions do not. A short list of these features include (or see full feature list):

- Enterprise level content management system
CRM-like customer management features
- User tracking and click path analysis.
- Marketing list builders/managers
- eNewsletter/email campaign manager
- Calendaring and Events/Facilities Management system
- Portal Integration

The last point is important: dotCMS includes the attractive Liferay portal– and leverages many features offered by the portal framework. The Liferay portal provides a large collection of out-of-the-box portlets that can be used for an internal intranet or exposed to the external CMS functionality.

Single Sign on application from Yale University

Please find single sign on application from Yale University here. Yale University ITS Technology & Planning : CentralAuthenticationService

o5/05/05 Day

Wow today is one unique day - 05/05/05 day.

Today is a special day, because 05.05.05 comes only once in 1000 years and coinciding with 'Thursday(5th Day of the week) comes once in 7000 yrs?? It happens only once in our lifetime

Have a wonderful 05/05/05 Day!

Possible Worlds Tallest Tower

A computer-generated image of the proposed 160 floor Noida tower (near New Delhi) that will be the world's tallest if and when constructed.
Source:Hindustan Times