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Published on September 26, 2007 in General and scala. 1 Comment

When creating the documentation for svn2rss, I fell on the awesome “newgem” gem that Rubyforge provides to help outputting a website and releasing gems.

It was really very helpful, and I liked the way the syntax gem just transformed my ruby code into a nice color block. (I am still looking for the right shade of grey for the comments though)

I would like to provide an extension of the syntax gem to do the same thing for scala. (I still have to learn the language first, hopefully the pdfs on the website will be entertaining).

I haven’t been able to find a previous work in this area. Feel free to comment if you happen to have something already working.

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5.0

Published on September 25, 2007 in Eclipse and Intalio. 0 Comments

I started working for Intalio more than a year ago.

At the time I was a young software engineer with some skills regarding the Eclipse platform.
I grabbed a seat, and stayed there learning how to code with a team, parsing XML, understanding BPEL, hacking WSDL and groking Ruby.

Working for Intalio is fun. I personally feel like I am constantly rewarding myself. Every feature we bring in is a new skill, a new technology we master.
There is no forbidden path to achievement, we always take the shortest one, and that means slashing into code, rewriting, beautifying, migrating fearlessly.

In a small structure like this one, one thing continues to astonish me: we don’t discuss objectives. We all know where we fit and bend together to make it work.

For the last year we have been running a marathon, rewriting most of the Designer. I am proud of announcing to you that it is available for everyone and for free out there.

Ismael thanks all the persons that made it possible, and I’d like to thank them too, not only the team today, but the team I did not have the chance to know two or three years ago.

After this release, nothing has changed. We are still focused on the product and delivering the best experience to our customers.
We already started digging and have some finds for 5.1.

Subversion commits

Published on September 23, 2007 in Intalio, rss, ruby and svn2rss. 2 Comments

I did some hacking this week-end, and the result is called svn2rss.

It’s a simple lib to parse a subversion log and create a RSS 2.0 feed out of it.

Quick snippet to show you how it works:

# the module to include in your script.
self.include Svn2rss

# parse the svn log
entries = parseSvnLog("http://myfeed.com/rss")
# create your own feed
feed = createRSSFeed(entries,
        "http://myfeed.com/rss",
        "My very own title",
        "My description of the feed",
        "en",
        "managingEditor@myfeed.com",
        "webmaster@myfeed.com")
# Well, as you can see the API is clearly not optimized.
# Still working on that particular point, so expect your API to break often till 1.0.

The implementation is coming with some complete examples:
-create a WEBrick server that will serve your feed.
-create a file to hold your changes and send it through FTP to a server.

You can check out a live instance of svn2rss here, and below is a snippet generated with Feed2JS.

0.1 is out, so installing it is just a matter of muttering the magic works:

sudo gem install svn2rss

I hope you like it. It cuts the deal for me. It certainly isn’t a replacement for some great tools like Fisheye, but it helps showcasing my works. More on that very soon.

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Meanwhile, at Intalio…

Published on September 21, 2007 in General and Intalio. 2 Comments

they play with Legos and think about iPhones!

Photo excerpted from Techcrunch fr.

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Where did my project go ?

Published on September 20, 2007 in Eclipse. 0 Comments

There is a particular point in Eclipse I dislike.

Importing projects.

Well actually that is not true, importing a project directly from an archive or a directory is awesome.

The thing is, sometimes you found the archive, you double-click on it, and then:

nothing.

The wizard detected that another project in your workspace was bearing the same name. So it just didn’t show it.

The current workaround consists of opening the archive and look at the same of the folder. Then it’s time to come back in Eclipse and delete the project to replace it.

This is rather a problem for me as our QA team at Intalio has a huge panel of tests, and attaches its processes to the bugs.
So I am confronted to this problem, if no quite everyday, at least two or three times a week. And as QA tests always have the same name, I have taken the (bad) habit to delete projects as soon as I suspect that I am experiencing the bug - sometimes I get it right, and the “Test” project was guilty, sometimes I just lose time…

If you are in the same case and feel compelled to see this bug closed, feel free to comment the bug 173994.

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Scala Eclipse plugin

Published on September 19, 2007 in Eclipse and General. 0 Comments

Scala is a Java based language that combines the best of Ruby with strong types.

Sean McDirmid just released a new beta version of the plugin.

It is available through an update site: http://lamp.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/scala.update

Congratulations to Sean for this achievement ! I look forward to dive into Scala and help on this front.

The complete announcement is available here.

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Playing with the RSS and Atom Ruby libraries

Published on September 17, 2007 in General. 1 Comment

feed

I have been checking out the various libraries available out there in Ruby.

My first goal is to be able to parse both RSS and Atom feeds.

In chronogical order, here are my finds:

Feed Normalizer

Feed Normalizer does a pretty good job at parsing both RSS and Atom feeds.

Feed Normalizer uses a list of parsers with priority to parse the feeds. It appears the best parser is simple-rss, none other supporting Atom.
So basically using Feed Normalizer is facading simple-rss nicely.

simple-rss

Simple-rss is a GPL library that parses RSS and Atom feeds. That’s cool, but simple-rss missed the issued attribute on the Atom feeds, so there is no way to get the publication date.

I opened a bug regarding this issue.

Atom

Atom sounded like a good library, but from what I saw there was no RSS support.

FeedTools

FeedTools is apparently the most accomplished library I have seen.

Apparently its caching mechanism is good, but not perfect and generating a feed with it is taking more and more time.

Conclusion
All the libraries I have been looking into don’t have much documentation, and are more or less maintained.

I am still looking at the solutions available:
- Create some new parsers on feed-normalizer to handle Atom nicely.
- Create my very own parser to parse any feed out there. I prefer this function because I could handle the feeds as Atom by default, instead of losing their information with RSS.

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RSSifying the Intalio community

Published on September 16, 2007 in BPMN and General. 4 Comments

I want to help the Intalio community by giving our users the possibility to broadcast their blog posts over a common RSS feed, and eventually a common UI, much like planeteclipse.org works.

Anyone against the name planet.intalio.com ? Please voice your opinions in the comments !

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Back to France

Published on August 31, 2007 in General. 0 Comments

Hey everyone!

I am back to France, but I still work for the same company, just remote.

Here is a complete explanation for French readers.

In short, my wife is getting an exciting job, I have a huge appartment but I miss a walking cabinet, and I work from home.

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5.0 RC1 is out !

Published on August 31, 2007 in BPMN, Eclipse and General. 0 Comments

Yay !

It’s good to push some piece of software out of the door. After months of hard work, Intalio|BPMS Designer 5.0 RC1 is out.

Get it while it’s hot!

Here is a list of all the good stuff coming with this release.

Intalio|BPMS Designer is bundled with the BPMN modeler of the STP project.

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Asides

I am looking for programmers living in or near

Le Havre, France

I am eager to start a programming user group down here, with technical presentations, meetups, and hum, beers.

If you are interested, please contact me.

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Bad surprise this morning:

trying to look for all the open bugs of GMF is just not possible apparently.

If you try to work around the limitation by searching for a space ” “, it results into an error:

You may not search, or create saved searches, without any search terms.

The help links look broken: I created the bug 205151 for that.

As for the listing of all open bugs, any workaround or fix is welcome.

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