Na RUPEAL temos a convicção de que a productividade dos colaboradores depende directamente da qualidade do material com que trabalham.
Como são actualmente estações de trabalho na RUPEAL?
Hardware:
Imac’s dual core de 20″ com 4GB de ram / MacBook de 13.3″ com 2Gb;
2º ecrã de 22″ (1680×1050);
Software:
OS X Snow Leopard;
Textmate - O nosso “pau para toda a [...]
Alexandre Carvalho on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | | Posted in People, Software Development | 2 Comments
Ao oferecer um serviço exclusivamente online em Portugal (www.invoicexpress.com) enfrentamos uma série de barreiras associadas ao medo da mudança / adopção de novas tecnologias.
O maior desses medos é o de fornecer dados bancários para efectuar o pagamento. Mesmo com o MBNET e o PAYPAL ainda há muita gente que prefere os meios mais tradicionais.
A forma [...]
Alexandre Carvalho on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 | | Posted in Software Development | 1 Comment
One of the new features we have for the next release of InvoicExpress is to allow a user to be a member of multiple accounts.
The advantage of this model is that you only need one login credential to use all the accounts that you have access to.
In this post we show you a glimpse of [...]
Bruno Coelho on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | | Posted in Software Development | No Comments
Pois é, nem sempre o que é bonito é bom design, ou melhor ainda, nem sempre o que é feio é mau design.
Ora leiam lá este artigo do Jason Fried, um dos artistas da 37signals.
Alexandre Carvalho on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | | Posted in Software Development | No Comments
Here’s a nice article on good unix habits! DeveloperWorks has been one of the good many sources for reading about new technologies, specially on the Java Department
Rui Alves on Monday, August 25th, 2008 | Posted in Software Development | No Comments
Just came across with this article about RoR scaling issues.
Some quotes:
“When it comes to handling massive HTTP traffic, you can scale a Rails application horizontally just like any other by replicating your front-end web servers behind a load balancer. There’s nothing about Rails that makes this more difficult than with any other technology.”
So if you don’t know [...]
Rui Alves on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 | | Posted in Software Development | No Comments
A collegue just passed me a screencast of Sean Kelly who describes the different available frameworks for developing web applications. The chosen technologies include Java (JEE), Ruby on Rails, Django, TurboGears and Zope, I believe.
Although I find the first examples on Java a little bit “tendencious” since he doesn’t use any IDE or help tool [...]
Rui Alves on Saturday, December 1st, 2007 | Posted in Software Development | 1 Comment
This article explains all my toughts about how JEE is not fit for developing Web 2.0 based applications and why we need to use auxiliar frameworks that are not Java standard (Like Spring, Hibernate, etc.)!
“Web 2.0 applications developed using standard Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE)-based approaches face serious performance and scalability problems. The [...]
Rui Alves on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 | Posted in Software Development | No Comments
David Van Couvering has a nice article on JPA and Transaction Rollbacks
I haven’t got to the point where I’ll have this kind of problems, but I guess this post is a good reminder that someone else have the solution to a problem that I don’t have yet
Rui Alves on Monday, April 30th, 2007 | Posted in Software Development | No Comments
Just came across this article about how JSP are dead and asked myself if the author as a good point or not.
One thing is for sure, most of JEE technologies (EJB, JSF, etc.) are sure like cannons to kill flies, and makes me wonder if JSP is on that package and I have’nt noticed [...]
Rui Alves on Friday, April 20th, 2007 | Posted in Software Development | No Comments
