Hello! Long time no post…. I’ve recently(ish) started working from home as head of IT for a small web design firm… which means I get to use a linux desktop again. I’ve settled on Debian testing (which is currently ‘wheezy’) but have found a few niggles (always the way) so my next few posts will […]
If there’s one issue I’ve found with ServiceMix, it’s that it tends to enthusiastically embrace a certain way of doing things while letting other methods fall to the wayside. A prominent example of this is when constructing code to access web services. By default, Servicemix uses Apache CXF as its web service layer. CXF is […]
Just a quick run through of what I’ve been doing for the last few days, namely setting up our build / development server. It’s running Fedora, and the end goal was to have redmine, artifactory and hudson all on the same server, all running on port 80. Once it’s installed and running we should be […]
Just a quick not to mention that I’ve restarted work on jNag. First order of business is to rewrite the server side code which, to be frank, is a quick and dirty job I hacked together just to get soemthing working at the time. The rewrite will incorporate everything I’ve learned about development in the […]
So, jNag was recently listed by ‘Computerworlduk’ as one of the top 16 mobile applications for IT professionals: http://mobile.computerworlduk.com/slideshow/applications/3352077/best-mobile-apps-for-it-pros/6/ And this has given me some motivation to restart development…. I need some sort of project to work on since giving up facebook (I deactivated my account last week in the hope of spurring some productivity) […]
Just a quick fix for today. Magento appears to have a bug whereby if a user places an order using paypal express when they’re not logged into your site (ie: using the ‘guest checkout’ functionality of magento their email address will not be passed through correctly. One annoying symptom of this is that the user […]
Just had a moment of epiphany that I thought I’d share…I’m sure this is well known to most Magento developers, but I’ve not seen it clearly spelled out anywhere and it’s taken me a while to get my head round this. Have a look at this snippet of a config file for one of my […]
I’ve noticed a bug with Magento that affects the code I wrote for the ‘Extending the API’ tutorial so I thought I’d post a fix for it here. Well, I assume it’s a bug since I don’t see how it could be anything else… Here’s the article in question Here’s the api.xml file from that […]
The first thing we need to do when starting to work with fuse ESB is set up our build environment. For this we’ll be using Eclipse, with the FUSE IDE plugin and maven. I’ll also cover downloading and installing Servicemix, and then generating our first FUSE project. I’ll be using a windows box for the […]
Today I’ve decided to move on from the magento stuff I’ve been posting recently, and start looking at working with FUSE ESB. This is an enterprise service bus based on apaches servicemix platform. There’s a lot of new stuff here, the majority of the code for servicemix is written in Java and plugged together using […]