US$2.56

Well, this Blog must be storming ahead in the channel charts - I've now earned US$2.56 from Google Ads. Crikey!

Can't have too many TLAs & FLAs

For the more recent incarnation of the Medys concept I've always had the vision of collaboration rather than world domination, hence the plan is to build the application and serve up the functionality as SOAP web services to anyone what wants to use them. To make life even easier we'll produce some WSRPs, despite the fact that these are apparently controversial I think its the easiest way to get our services out there. We'll showcase the Medys engine in our own site called MediBlog where we can also consume services from other organisations without confusing the brand. FYI architecture options on the current menu are Linux, MySQL, Stored Procedures, Glassfish, EJBs, JSF, WSRP and Liferay Portal.

While I'm here, I got an invitation to the Liferay/Alfresco conference (http://alfrescoliferay.osmeet.com/) which unfortunately is in LA - a nice opportunity to go there but can't really justify the time or money yet :(

New Team Member

I recently caught up with an old colleague who volunteered to help with some groundwork on the Java development. We called a meeting over lunch at a local restaurant and set out some objectives for the next couple of months so we now have some momentum for the first time: I'll resort to specifying what the application will do, MIKE will be the Db designer and STEVE will do all the hard work with Java. When we can say "hello" to the world we'll share up the work a bit more evenly. All looks very promising for the first time in ages.

Histio Net Update

The Histio Net application is in with the EU/DG Sanco people now and we have to wait until Sept for the next update. I'm still waiting on feedback about the Solaris servers - the upgrade is more or less on schedule and the best I can hope for there is to get something (or not) by October/November 2007. Whether they are likely to be useful or not, who knows?! We may be able to use them for the CORINTH (COnsortium Researching INto The Histiocytoses) which is a synergistic DNA study to be sponsored by the HRTrust too. As it happened, no one was too interested in trying out the different language communities I set up on the HRTrust.Org site.

Sun Solaris

We're currently upgrading one of our customers from SAP 4.6c to ECC6. This will require a complete set of new hardware and so, apparently, the old ones are redundant. Clearly, 4 year old servers are no good for NetWeaver but anything that currently supports hundreds of users on SAP R/3 should be Ok for a few dozen Liferay users. The kit runs Sun Solaris - i'm going to put in a request for the boxes and we'll see if there's any chance of getting some free hosting too. Unlikely but if you don't ask, you don't get, eh?

Histio Net

Things are getting more interesting with the Histio Net project: I now have some volunteers to help with the translation of stuff and consequently the hrtrust.org portal now has a number of communities including parent/patient communities for English, French, Italian and Spanish languages. Once you get the basic idea of how Liferay handles communities it's quite simple although trying to keep things consistent in multiple languages whilst setting them up is a bit like 3d chess. All the parent/patient communities are "Open" i.e. anyone who's a member can join them to see document libraries, message boards, Wikis and directories associated with each community. My next trick is to create another community for the DG Sanco team that I control to keep some things out of the public domain.

I did find one interesting new thing about the Message boards, you can subscribe to them and receive email updates when a new item is added - the emails are sent from Joe Bloggs though, so I now have find out how to change that...

Mediblog.com

Well, I finally got around to putting something reasonably useful on my lovely domain, MediBlog.com When I say useful, I mean its better than the Italian stuff that came as default with the new registrar and that it has some AdSense (NB I've now earned over $2.47 from this Blogger site even though I've done nothing for a couple of months) and more interestingly perhaps, Google Analytics. I'm very interested to know who hits the site - and where they all come from...