Been Busy!
It's been a crazy few weeks. I just delivered a very intricate versioning based content management solution for a large private corporation, pulled together a mammoth visa application (hopefully I'll be considered an "extraordinary alien" :-) ) and worked on a number of smaller projects including an article on a Data Mapper (as LightWire is to Spring, so my Data Mapper is to Hibernate) for the Fusion Authority and (as a member of the programme committee) reviewing submissions for the Domain Specific Modeling Workshop at ooPSLA in Nashville next month.
Next week I'll be presenting at the NY CFUG on "A Practical Guide to Object Oriented Programming", I owe Jeff my second article for the great new Flex Authority publication, and need to submit a presentation for the SPA conference next year. I also need to shepherd my visa application through, plan some serious upgrades to LightBase and perhaps consider a 1.0 release of LightWire with some AOP goodness before I fly back to the UK in a couple of weeks.
I'll try to fit in some blogging as well :-)
Oh, I also became a member of the Grand Havana Club, so if anyone likes cigars and is in NYC, drop me a line!
I didn't think anyone actually wrote intricate versioning content management systems anymore - hasn't this "been done"? I'm curious about what special requirement prompted this project - or is it the case there are still so many gaps in the market that the requirements don't need to be all that special?
Jaime
Interesting question. I guess my first comment would be that most of the problems we solve have "been solved". However, I needed a solution where I could describe my business objects and generate a working application based on a configuration based description of a number of custom business objects. I didn't see anything out there in the ColdFusion world (or outside of it) that met the exact needs and that gave me the flexibility I required.
If someone came to you with a requirement for a custom web application where all of the custom objects could have various versioning controls and they wanted it fairly quickly and fairly inexpensively, what would be your starting point? Is there an OSS project that you'd recommend?