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  coreyleong 12:48 am on 2010/01/05 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: component, deployment, diagram (2), GR8C, realrep, reputation (2), uml (2)   

  Building The Perfect Reputational Beast, Part 2 

  Continuing from Part 1, this modeled diagram represents components of a concept reputational application. As do most web applications, the system is comprised of three tiers: client, application, and the database layer.

  The user of the system interfaces with a browser on a desktop computer or an application on a mobile device. The middle tier is comprised of JBoss Application Server and Apache’s ServiceMix. I chose JBoss AS to allow for enterprise javabeans to be used along with all of the lovely enterprise features such as remoting, security, transaction management, presistence, messaging, resource pooling, concurrency control, and directory services.

  I included a servicemix implementation component to jboss for deploying a webservice to external webservice clients. In addtion, servicemix allows for xmpp implementations along with messaging services over Java Messaging Service (JMS).

  For authorization, an OpenID provider is accessed for warehousing usernames and passwords. Having users’ credentials stored by an OpenID provider removes the potential possibility of a security breach regarding usernames and passwords.

  Lastly, I selected PostgreSQL for the application’s database layer. I have used PostgreSQL with many projects previously while the zero licensing cost to implement is most ideal.

  To continue this development drill, I will next blog activity diagrams from using the potential use cases.

  –Corey

   

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  coreyleong 11:56 pm on 2009/10/14 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: GR8C, icann, inkscape, seoul   

  Inkscaping Biz Cards 

  

  GR8C Biz Card created with Inkscape

  For my upcoming trip to Icann Seoul, I needed a new set of business cards for networking purposes. One of the tools I’ve been using to create business brochureware for many years now is Inkscape. It’s an open source vector application which practically mirrors the functionality and features of Adobe’s Illustrator, but not the $599 cost to purchase.

  Here’s how I created the card:

  1. Create a new document.
  2. Under File > Document Properties > Set Units to ‘in’ or inches
  3. Change Page Orientation to ‘Landscape’.
  4. Choose ‘Custom Size’.
  5. The width of a business card is 3.5 inches.
  6. The height is 2 inches.
  7. I’ll leave the design part up to you, but I used ‘Bank Gothic’ font at 48pt size for the logo and 10pt for rest of text. I added a Medium style to my name and title while using Light for the rest.
  8. I recommend using the grid feature for spacing in addition to the ‘always snap’ choice under File > Document Properties > Snap.
  9. The most important step is saving your file in .eps format. An encapsulated format packages the font styles, font sizes, font faces, and colors so your printer will have all of the needed information to print your job.

  –Corey

   
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  coreyleong 1:03 pm on 2009/10/09 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: google, GR8C, kml, remetal (2), xml (3)   

  Foward thinking to Remetal 0.4 

  As I finish work on 0.3 of the Real Estate Meta Language, I can’t help to look forward to release 0.4. The obvious element which needs a bit of attending to is the <location> element. So here’s my thought for this.

  For <location>, Remetal will reuse the <Location> compound element offered by Google’s Keyhole Markup Language (KML). <Location> is the parent element to following elements as such:

     <Location>
       <longitude>39.55375305703105</longitude>
       <latitude>-118.9813220168456</latitude>
       <altitude>1223</altitude>
     </Location>
  

  With this and a bit of xsl transformation, could this element inclusion lead to mapping apps reusing remetal listings? Hopefully is my first thought. I’ll let the developers decide what to do and resist tainting.

  One of the main principles of the Internet is to “reuse” protocols which already exist, but in this case Remetal will simply reuse an element which already exists thanks to KML.

  Feel free to leave comments.

  –Corey