Seemant's Entries in Category: Websites

So, a few times in my life I’ve had a conversation where someone will reveal that they “have expensive taste.” Now, I try not to be judgmental, but you know it’s hard sometimes, when you hear a line that contains utter pretentiousness like that. Now, these conversations have been in regards to clothing and/or food.

So, my younger readers are probably already hip to this — but apparently, nowadays, you can shell eighteen to 20 dollars (US) for …

In still other news, I’ve been playing with django’s newforms module for creating forms on the websites I’ve got in the pipeline. It looks like the StreamBase website will finally be content-managed, though not by django, but by something else. I’m hard at work on getting the website for Aimee going. This weekend will be a ReportLab weekend for me. There are some documents on the church site that will be in both web-readable and PDF-able …

Well, as promised, StreamBase is starting to get even more developer-friendly. I’m sure some of you have seen the new and improved DevZone (notice the sane URL :) ). Well, now in the add-ons downloads section, we have put up a Java Toolkit for Eclipse.

Now, to be sure, this is not the StreamBase studio, which is a separate download. Instead, this little ditty makes it easy for your java developers to build up custom operators, functions, enqueuers, and adapters for …

I’d like to talk about future-proofing for a bit. One of the things that’s niggled at me for quite a few years has been the suffixes you find in websites. In the beginning you had either “.htm” or “.html”, and even that was annoying. It’s one thing to have everything be .html. But then (I think FrontPage or its ilk were responsible, but someone please set the record straight here) we got .htm pages as well. Now …

So, I’ve been writing a CMS thingy to manage the website for my wife. That has taken a bit of a turn on the backburner, but it’s returning to the front next week. In the meantime, I wrote up django apps for part of the websites where I work. It took quite some learning. Along the way, I learned about decorators and manipulators and validators and templatetags and context processors. Pretty much everything was learned out of James …

Pretty much from the second week of my employment, I had made it my mission to make the DevZone area of the website a lot friendlier. For those of you that had checked out that site when I first mentioned it, you would have noticed that the http://dev.streambase.com link took you to a register/login page. Say what? So, in a nutshell, you had to fork over the 411 to get the 411, which in my mind …

Once in a while, you come across a a fantastic information piece that’s top-notch in presentation. This guy had me giggling at 1 in the morning, and I learned stuff from that post (which is why I was up in the first place).

You know, all this talk about communities and getting along got me thinking about something. By the way, that segue was sponsored anonymously. I would have to say that the community that really impresses me is …

Well, this is the end of my second week at StreamBase. I’ve learned a bunch this week, as it has comprised of my ramping up my knowledge of the way things are. I’ve been catching up on my reading of the logs over at the CEP interest group on yahoo (b2evo won’t allow me to link). And also, I’ve been reading Marco’s blog at rulecore. I discovered an open source CEP/ESP engine.

That’s …

Actually, looking back at the last 3 blog posts that I’ve made, I’ve pretty much given away who exactly I’ll be working for :) In fact, one person out there guessed correctly.

Anyway, when I found the posting on the search engine, I sent in my resume with a cover letter, I stalked HR over on LinkedIn, and then finally I went into the place physically with another letter telling them why I was Seemant Kulleen. 7 interviews …