Hendrik Swanepoel

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The importance of return on existing investment (ROEI)
Gone are the days when the project sponsors were interested in ROI. These days everything is about ROEI. I can't remember the last time that I went into a requirements meeting where we discussed a proposed solution, where there were no integration with existing systems. I agree with their sentiments. You can't go and shell out 3 mil for your enterprise roll out and then install separate non-integrated applications afterward.. This poses some interesting challenges on the architecture front. You have...
Posted: Jul 09 2004, 09:45 AM by hendrik | with no comments
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Oracle AS portal installation
I have went through a lot of trouble in getting a development environment ready to develop some custom OracleAS portlets. I must admit that I've learned a lot, but not enough... I have made some sense of the installation, but some features are still not working, like publishing my portlets to the portal containers directly from my IDE. To install an instance of the Oracle AS Portal, you have to have an instance that allows for SSO (single sign on). This can be another server, or you can install an...
Posted: Jul 07 2004, 08:45 PM by hendrik | with no comments
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Oracle experiences
I'm looking at the feasibility of integrating a product wit ours with Oracle application server in the form of a portlet. Oracle application server provides a framework for developing a portal by way of portlets. It's similar to Microsoft SPS. These portlets have certain industry standards - of which I don't know enough yet. I have done lots of reading through the documentation on these technologies, and I feel that I've made some progress. I have also done a lot of downloading... I have downloaded...
Posted: Jul 06 2004, 12:15 PM by hendrik | with no comments
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Whitehorse, UML, Reverse engineering and more
I can hardly wait to get my grubby hands on Whitehorse. I'm a big fan of model-driven code and I hardly start coding anything without conceptualizing it in UML first. Unfortunately, once you start adding the flesh (code) to the model, you start changing the structure of the model (it's impossible to visualize everything at modeling stage), which causes the actual code structure to get out of sync with the model. In comes Whitehorse. Here's a link to a clip about Whitehorse, thanks to Corne . Whitehorse...
Posted: May 26 2004, 07:40 AM by hendrik | with 2 comment(s)
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Assembly architecture
I read this post on Brad Abrams site regarding the performance of lots of small assemblies against the performance of fewer bigger assemblies. I found it very interesting. He basically conveys that it's better to have fewer bigger assemblies due to the cost of loading a lot of smaller assemblies. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted: May 07 2004, 07:00 AM by hendrik | with 3 comment(s)
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Non-Software examples of design patterns
I wish I stumbled onto this link a bit earlier. It gives real-life examples of patterns, outside of software scope. Very useful. http://www.agcs.com/supportv2/techpapers/patterns/papers/patexamples.htm Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted: May 05 2004, 06:49 AM by hendrik | with no comments
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