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Why Open Source Can Mean Better Support

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One of the first questions enterprise clients ask us when they evaluate an open source platform is, “How good is the support?” The assumption is that a commercial platform means reliable 24/7 support while open source means you’re more or less on your own. But the opposite is often true: Not only are many open source platforms backed by enterprise-grade professional support, they are also backed by communities of users ready to respond to questions over the web. Take the…

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Mobile Musings from July

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July seems to have been a busy month on many fronts in the world of mobile, then again, isn’t every month? Some hardware news that tickled my fancy: The continued hubbub around the Dell Streak: you can now sign up for an ‘exclusive’ 24 hour pre-sales period. It was also spotted on engadet running Android 2.1, was slated for a ‘July end’ release; but wait… It is currently on the Dell site for sale “soon”. BlackBerry bought the “BlackPad” domain,…

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Spring Roo – News from Ken Rimple and Gordon Dickens

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Chariot’s Ken Rimple and Gordon Dickens are following in the path of several of our architects – they are becoming published authors. Both are working, along with Ben Alex, on a book for Manning, Spring Roo in Action. Here is a video interview with them. They give a brief overview of Roo and discuss why they wanted to write the book. (sorry for the link, but YouTube was giving me trouble with the embedding today.) As they said in the…

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Mobile Musings from June

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June has been a busy month for mobile, primarily because of Apple’s launch of iOS4 and the new iPhone (antenna woes and all). However, presenting an update on that would be too easy; here are a few things you might have missed in all the hubbub. CNET reported that merely weeks after Microsoft launch of Kin, they would be stopping development, and focusing on Windows Phone 7. 1 Android released 2.2 to developers with the notable additions being: Improved performance…

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Making the Most of Maven: Nexus, Hudson, Sonar

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Maven is a build tool. I like Maven because it supports dependency management, consistent builds and a modular code base. But if you are just using Maven without using Nexus, Hudson, Sonar you are really missing out on a lot of goodness. Nexus is a Maven repository manager, Hudson is a CI server, and Sonar is a code metrics server. All three share some commons attributes: They are web-based server applications They have an open source license They are easy…

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Chariot Summer Training Schedule – Maven, Rails and Spring Courses

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We are excited to announce the following courses on our schedule between now and August. Registration can be performed online by following the links below. In addition to these course offerings, we can provide private, on-or-offsite training for your developers. Introduction to Maven (SonaType’s Maven 101 course) – a great introduction to Maven, this course details how to build single-project and multi-project maven-based applications. We discuss how to diagnose and fix dependency problems, configuring plugins, and many other topics. Maven…

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