The Java team won the second IT Boxing match on Web technologies on 6 March 2008 in Sofia.
The battle was merciless: 24 contestants in 4 teams (.NET, Java, PHP and Ruby) fighted for proving their technology better in 9 technical talks with live demonstrations. The teams presented ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Echo2, Google Web Toolkit, JavaServer Facaes and other Java EE technologies, PHP, Symfony framework and Ruby on Rails along with lots of demonstrations and discussion.
Finally the visitors voted and the results states:
The topic of this event is “Web Development Technologies: ASP.NET vs. Java & JSF vs. PHP vs. Ruby”. The .NET team will present the ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and the new ASP.NET extensions in .NET Framework 3.5. The Java team will stand up for JavaServer Faces (JSF), Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Echo Framework and other Java Web development frameworks. The PHP team will stand up for the Web frameworks in PHP, especially the Symphony framework. The Ruby team will stand for Ruby on Rails.
Venue
The event will be held on 6 March 2008, starting from 17:30 h in Park-hotel Moscow, Sofia, hall Moscow. The hall capacity is 350 people.
Sponsor
The event is sponsored by Telerik, a leading world wide vendor of User Interface (UI) components for ASP.NET and Windows Forms, and .NET Reporting solutions.
Agenda
Time
Topic
Speakers
17:30-17:50
Presenting the “IT Boxing Championship” initiative, the dispute topic,teams and rules
Svetlin Nakov,The Referee Team
17:50-18:10
Technical talk #1: ASP.NET AJAX
Alex Thissen,The .NET Team
18:10-18:30
Technical talk #2: Echo Framework
Peter Milev,The Java Team
18:30-18:50
Technical talk #3: PHP and PHP Web Frameworks
Peter Vukadinov,The PHP Team
18:50-19:10
Technical talk #4: ASP.NET MVCFramework
Alex Thissen,The .NET Team
19:10-19:30
Technical talk #5: Google Web Toolkit - Dynamic Web on Java(Script)
Jordan Jordanov,The Java Team
19:30-19:50
Break
19:50-20:10
Technical talk #6: Symphony Framework for PHP
Peter Vukadinov,The PHP Team
20:10-20:30
Technical talk #7: ASP.NET
The .NET Team
20:30-20:50
Technical talk #8: JavaServer Faces (JSF)
Nikolai Dokovski,The Java Team
20:50-21:10
Technical talk #9: Smashing Rails
Sava Chankov,The Ruby Team
21:10-22:20
Open dispute and direct fight between the teams
The .NET TeamThe PHP TeamThe Java Team The Ruby TeamThe RefereeTeam
22:20-22:30
Voting, announcing the results and awarding the winners
All visitors vote
ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a set of Web development technologies provided by Microsoft as part of .NET Framework. It is used by developers to create dynamic Web applications and Web services. ASP.NET provides component-based architecture with comprehensive page rendering and execution model that relies on the concepts of the event-driven development. ASP.NET supports the concept of separation between the code and UI presentation and supports custom components, data binding and master pages. Developers can use C#, VB.NET and other .NET languages to create ASP.NET Web applications. ASP.NET is the best Web technology, isn’t it? If you don’t agree, come to fight at the ring.
ASP.NET AJAX
ASP.NET has a really strong story for AJAX. The AJAX implementation supports both a server centric and a client centric programming model. On the server new AJAX controls extend the Page Framework and offer the well-known control based and event-driven way of working. The AJAX controls take care of partial rendering of Web pages. Microsoft has released an impressive cross-browser compatible AJAX library on the client side. It allows you to do full client-side JavaScript development, and adds object orientation with inheritance, a type system including reflection and namespaces. And to top it all, the AJAX library is royalty-free and you can use and change it however you like. Surely no other AJAX framework can put up against this much power and survive a 12 round fight!
ASP.NET MVC Framework
Microsoft goes into a new direction of web application development with the introduction of the Model-View-Controller framework for ASP.NET. The benefits of the MVC approach include the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns (data, presentation and actions), and also facilitates test driven development (TDD) and define page navigation rules. Microsoft’s MVC implementation is all about extensibility and flexibility. You have a free choice of the type of controller, the way URLs are routed and how views are created. The MVC Framework leverages the ASP.NET runtime and should be easy to learn for existing ASP.NET programmers, but also those coming from other runtimes and frameworks. All in all, the ASP.NET MVC Framework is sure to pack a punch. Will the combination of ASP.NET and MVC bring a quick knockout?
Java Web Technologies
The Java Enterprise platform (Java EE) provides solid foundation for development of Web applications and Web services. It introduces the concept of Web containers and Web applications. Java Web applications are built on the top of Servlet/JSP standards which serve as basis for the more complicated Web technologies. The Servlet API provides the basic execution model for the Web applications. The JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology provides additionally custom tags and tag libraries and has built-in expression language.
JavaServer Faces (JSF)
As a natural extension to the Servlet/JSP standards JavaServer Faces (JSF) provides standard component based architecture for Web applications. It provides reusable UI components and comprehensive rendering and execution model. Developers can benefit of using event driven development, data binding, control validation and page navigation rules. JSF is naturally extended to support AJAX with partial rendering and asynchronous execution and update of controls on the page. Shall the JSF gain a victory over the opponents as a technical effort or the Java team fill fall into boxing combat? Be sure to come and see.
Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
This session intends to reveal some of the benefits of GWT as UI Framework. Nowadays having a dynamic web UI is a must. Java programming is always preferred compared with pure HTML and Java Script. So combining both can really boost productivity and in the same way give us the opportunity to have a nice and flexible UI. The session will also include the usage of GWT in a real SAP project so that everybody can get a feeling for the product. Somebody mentioned JavaScript and AJAX support in .NET and PHP? No need of fight: GWT does not just use JavaScript and AJAX; those are in its blood.
Echo2 Framework
Echo2 is a platform for building Web applications that approach the capabilities of rich clients. The applications are developed using a component-oriented and event-driven API, eliminating the need to deal with HTML, JavaScript and the “page-based” nature of Web browsers. Echo2 applications are by their nature AJAX-enabled. To the developer, Echo2 works just like a user interface toolkit with and presents very simple approach to write efficient Web applications. Any AJAX pugilists?
PHP and PHP Web Frameworks
Some developers believe that PHP code is always low quality and PHP does not have good frameworks and standards for enterprise development. Is this true? What makes PHP the most widely used Web development language?
PHP frameworks are hot topic in the Web development community. Some of the most popular frameworks are: ZendFramework, Symfony, Codelighter, CakePHP, eZ Components but this list can not be either accurate or comprehensive.
PHP does not need to fight or dispute with the rest. It is the largest community and keeps the largest market share in Web technologies, isn’t it?
Symphony Framework for PHP
Symfony is a complete PHP framework designed to optimize the development of Web applications. It contains numerous tools and classes aimed at shortening the development time of a complex Web applications. Additionaly, it automates common tasks so that the developer can focus entierly on the specifics of the application. Some of the key features are: MVC separation, simple templating and helpers, cache management, smart URLs, scaffolding, multilingualism and I18N support, AJAX support and built-in unit and functional testing framework. Does anybody think Symphony is not better than ASP.NET and JSF? We shall see.
Smashing Rails
Since its inception several years ago Ruby on Rails has steadily garnered a lot of attention. The rolling stock seems not to be hype-powered only in shunting established technologies. Rather than presenting Rails the Ruby team decided to let it speak on its own. Ruby on Rails will squash the other Web technologies. Come to see this.
Teams
5 teams and 23 contestants take part in the event. The teams:
The .NET Team (Alex Thissen from INETA, Branimir Giurov from SofiaDev, Stefan Dobrev from Avaxo, Deyan Varchev from Avaxo, Galin Iliev, Martin Kulov and Emil Stoychev) - stands up for the ASP.NET Web technologies
The Java Team (Nikolay Dokovski from SAP Labs Bulgaria, Jordan Jordanov from SAP Labs Bulgaria, Peter Milev, Nikolay Nedyalkov from ISECA, Vesko Arnaudov from VMWare, Naiden Gochev from ProxiAD) - stands up for the Java Web technologies like JSF, GWT, Echo, etc.
The PHP Team (Peter Vukadinov from pi consult and Valery Gantchev) - stands up for the PHP Web technologies
The Ruby Team (Sava Chankov from Tutuf, Petyo Ivanov from 3atwork, Stanislav Bozhkov from svejo.net, Stanislav Peshterliev and Dimitar Ivanov) - stands up for the Ruby and Rails technologies
The Referees Team (Svetlin Nakov from BASD, Dimitar Kapitanov from Telerik and Mihail Stoynov) - technologically neutral, moderate the discussion
Free Event
The event is free and the hall is large, so please come with your friends! Everyone will get small gifts from our sponsors.
With a few collagues I teach a course in Design Patterns in Sofia University for the summer semester of 2007/2008. We will cover the classical GoF patterns (creational, functional and behavioral) and as well as some additional topics like architectural patterns (like MVC). Our curriculum is based on the classical book “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”:
Creational Patterns
Abstract Factory groups object factories that have a common theme.
Builder constructs complex objects by separating construction and representation.
Factory Method creates objects without specifying the exact class to create.
Prototype creates objects by cloning an existing object.
Singleton restricts object creation for a class to only one instance.
Structural Patterns
Adapter allows classes with incompatible interfaces to work together by wrapping its own interface around that of an already existing class.
Bridge decouples an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.
Composite composes one-or-more similar objects so that they can be manipulated as one object.
Decorator dynamically adds/overrides behaviour in an existing method of an object.
Facade provides a simplified interface to a large body of code.
Flyweight reduces the cost of creating and manipulating a large number of similar objects.
Proxy provides a placeholder for another object to control access, reduce cost, and reduce complexity.
Behavioral Patterns
Chain of responsibility delegates commands to a chain of processing objects.
Command creates objects which encapsulate actions and parameters.
Interpreter implements a specialized language.
Iterator accesses the elements of an object sequentially without exposing its underlying representation.
Mediator allows loose coupling between classes by being the only class that has detailed knowledge of their methods.
Memento provides the ability to restore an object to its previous state (undo).
Observer is a publish/subscribe pattern which allows a number of observer objects to see an event.
State allows an object to alter its behavior when its internal state changes.
Strategy allows one of a family of algorithms to be selected on-the-fly at runtime.
Template method defines the skeleton of an algorithm as an abstract class, allowing its subclasses to provide concrete behavior.
Visitor separates an algorithm from an object structure by moving the hierarchy of methods into one object.
Architectural Patterns:
Layers / Multi-tiered systems
Model-View-Controller
Visit the official site of the Design Patterns course for lecture materials, enrollment, news and forum: http://patterns.dev.bg/.
The next IT Boxing event is coming. The date is 6 March 2008. TThe venue is the same: Sofia, Park-hotel Moscow. The topic is “Web technologies” and the team will present the hottest Web technologies from .NET, Java and PHP.
Talks will be split into short sessions (20 minutes) and the focus will be on the demonstrations rather than theory.
The match we will have 3 teams:
1) The .NET team will have on the board a famous International speaker - Alex Thissen from INETA. Alex will come for the event from The Netherlands to talk about ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC. I have confirmations from other famous speakers: Branimir Giurov, Galin Iliev, Martin Kulov, Stefan Dobrev, Deyan Varchev.
2) The Java team will be lead by Nikolay Dokovski, a JSF industry expert, working for SAP A.G. He will defend the JavaServer Faces technology along with hid team.
3) The PHP team will stand for proving that PHP is a strong platform for Enterprise Web applications. Speaker will be Peter Vukadinov from Varna.
A week ago I visited Google in Zurich, Switzerland. The reason: during the years their recruiters asked me once monthy to join Google. I had so much invitations to join Google in Mountain View, Zurich and other locations that I finally decided to see at least what they offer. After passing successfully two phone interviews I was invited in their office in Zurich for a comprehensive 1 day interview.
Google Interview Process is Like a Programming Olympiad
I was amazed how Google perform their interviews. Really! They asked me only about data structures and algorithms. I was feeling like at a programming contest. I needed to solve 10 Olympiad style problems, each for 20-30 minutes. They requested to write a source code on the dashboard.
I will not reveal any of the questions (because I signed NDA) but their interview style was like at the programming contests and Olympiads which was lost ago in my childhood and student’s years.
Believe me, a 15 years old schoolboy, a good programming contestant, can pass these questions without having any experience in commercial software engineering.
That was all. Nobody asked me about my software engineerign skills, technologies, etc. Only algorithms and problem solving, data structures, complexity, etc.
Google Interviewers Don’t Ask About Software Engineering, Technology and Soft Skills
I have been interviewed in tens of interviews and was and interviewer for tens of job candidates but I have never thought that some company could could employ anybody only by his technical skills.
What Google don’t aked me:
1) They don’t ask anything about technologies, e.g. AJAX, Java, Java Web technologies, databases, SQL, XML, Web services, multithreading and synchronization, software architecture, etc.
2) They don’t ask about software engineering, e.g. the software project lyfecycle (requirements, design, implementation, testing etc.).
3) They don’t ask about your experience. No questions about what is your current job, what is your experience, what projects you have been part of, etc.
4) They don’t ask about personal character, e.g. are you a team pleayer, are capable to manage a team, do you have experience working in an International team, do you have good communication skills, etc.
It is really strage. My experience shows that soft skills are more important than the technical skills and I always weight them more.
How Google will employ somebody that has only algorithmic thinking and analytical skills without having a team working and communicational skills? I have no idea. I asked my collegues working for Google and they also don’t have an idea. Strange …
I was Overqualified to Work in Google
I week after my visit to Google I was informed that my results at the interview were very good but I was not accepted because they don’t have a suitable position for me. It was strange because I solved well all the algorithmic problems during my whole day interview sessions in Zurich. I was a leading programing contestants for more than 10 years, a champion in tens of Olympiads and contests (Bulgarian and International) so the technical questions were not complex for me. There were no other questions except the technical ones which I solved so I believe I passed the interview successfully.
I filled an employment application form in which I requested a relatively high salary and high position because I was an Olympiads medal winner, had more than 12 years of commercial experience as software engineer, trainer, consultant and project leader, and currently hold very high technical position in Sofia. I believe Google will have such open positions in Zurich but unfortunately they didn’t. I was rejected probably because I was overqualified.
A year ago I needed to purchase hosting services for hosting few domains and emails. In the adveertisment it was said that GoDaddy supports anything I need (hosting emails, web, subdomains, enough traffic and hosting space) but it was misleading advertisment. GoDaddy is a fraud!!! Here are few reasons why:
1) You can not try the service for free. The only chance is to purchase it. You can not purchase it for just a month. They let me purchase 1 year hosting with not option for money back refund.
2) After they crarged my credit card, I found that GoDaddy can not host email for subdomains, e.g. if you need to have email like somebody@subdomain.host.com this is not possible with GoDaddy. They don’t have secure FTP. They don’t support catch all email filter. They don’t have most usual hosting features offered by cPanel.
3) GoDaddy has extremely unusable user interface. If you want to do some change, e.g. create a new mailbox, you should submit the change and wait for few hours for changes to happen. Hey, GoDaddy, which century you are living? I was amazed how terrible is their admin interface.
4) After you register, you will soon find the GoDaddy’s service is unusable and you want to cancel it. This is impossible! They don’t refund money back. You pay some money, find that the service you purchased is fake and does not work and you can not do anything.
5) A year after GoDaddy fraud me, I received a notice that my credit card is charged again for a service that I have never used and have not purchased. They sent me an email saying “We just want to let you know we’ve automatically renewed the following items … We have billed your Visa card …”. You can not cancel this charge. They just charge you without requesting a confirmation.
GoDaddy are fraud! Once created, you can not delete your account. There is not such option in their site menus. The only way to stop their charges to your credit card is to ask your bank to revoke your credit card. You don’t have a chance for chargeback. No way.
Now I am trying to cancel my account at GoDaddy and their support don’t answer me. They just steal my money.
The initiative “IT Boxing Championship” is a series of events organized by the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD) at which we invite supporters of different software technologies to an open dispute “Which technology is better?”. At these meetings the adherents of the opposing technologies defend their vision for better technology by presentations, discussions and open debate that ends up in direct fight with inflatable boxing gloves. For each IT boxing event we assign a topic for dispute and teams that stand up for contrary visions. During the fight all contestants are obligated to keep the opponent of injuring.
ADO.NET Entity Framework + LINQ vs. Java Persistence API and Hibernate
The topic of this event is “Database Access Technologies and Object-Relational Persistence Frameworks in .NET and Java”. The .NET team will present the new ADO.NET, the ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ in C# 3.0. The Java team will stand up for Hibernate and the Java Persistence API (JPA).
Agenda
Time
Topic
Speakers
18:00-18:20
Presenting the “IT Boxing Championship” initiative
Svetlin Nakov
18:20-18:30
Presenting the dispute topic,teams and rules
Svetlin Nakov
18:30-18:35
Draw lots: Who will start first
Svetlin Nakov
18:35-19:20
ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ
The .NET Team
19:20-19:35
Break
19:35-20:20
Java Persistence API and Hibernate
The Java Team
20:20-21:30
Open dispute and direct fight between the teams
The .NET TeamThe Java Team The RefereeTeam
ADO.NET, ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ
ADO.NET is the standard data access library built in .NET Framework used by developers to access and modify data stored in relational database systems, call stored procedures and access non-relational data sources like XML.
LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is extension to C# and other .NET languages that adds native querying syntax directly into the language and thus simplifies querying data and dramatically reduces the amount of code.
ADO.NET Entity Framework is new paradigm for developing database applications. It allows developers to focus on data through an object model instead of through a logical/relational data model. It abstracts the logical database structure using a conceptual layer, a mapping layer, and a logical layer and provides support for LINQ to simplify querying.
Java Persistence API and Hibernate
Java Persistence API (JPA) is a Java framework based on the concept of object-relational mapping (ORM) that allows developers to manage relational data in Java SE and Java EE platforms. JPA defines persistent entities as lightweight Java classes that are mapped to the database tables. Entities typically have relationships with other entities, and these relationships can be specified directly in the entity class by using annotations, or in a separate XML descriptor. Once the mapping between classes and tables is defined, the persistent entities can be loaded, modified, persisted, deleted and queried by simple API.
Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence framework, very popular among the Java developer community. By concept it is very similar to JPA and provides mapping objects to tables, querying and manipulating persistent objects.
Teams
Three teams take part in the event:
The .NET Team – stands up for ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ
The Java Team – stands up for Java Persistence API and Hibernate
The Referees Team – technologically neutral, moderate the discussion
The .NET Team
Branimir Giurov is very skillful Microsoft and .NET software engineer, with many years of experience as senior developer, trainer, consultant, team leader and development manager. He’s a C# MVP and a UG Lead at SofiaDev.org. Branimir is freelance developer. Visit his blog here: http://blogs.sofiadev.org/blogs/branimir/.
Stefan Dobrev is co-owner of Avaxo Ltd., an experienced .NET developer and distinguished speaker at various Microsoft events for developers.. Visit his blog here: http://ligaz.blogspot.com.
Deyan Varchev is experienced .NET developer and a speaker at various Microsoft events for developers. Currently he is co-owner of Avaxo Ltd. where handles complex .NET and Web projects. Visit his blog here: http:// http://blog.varchev.net/.
Galin Iliev is a senior software engineer with solid experience in .NET and Microsoft technologies. He has MCPD and MCSD.NET certifications. He is Microsoft certified trainer. Now Galin works as freelance developer. Visit his blog here: http://www.galcho.com/blog/.
Dimiter Kapitanov is senior software engineer at telerik. Dimiter has solid experience in development of .NET applications and reusable components. Visit his blog here: http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/dimitar_kapitanov/.
The Java Team
Miroslav Nachev is software engineer with more than 18 years of experience in software design and development, system integration, VoIP and tele¬communications projects. Some of the programming languages and technologies in his competence include Java, Fortran-77, Pascal, x86 assembler, C/C++, 4GL Magic, Web Services, Hibernate, JPA, XML Security & Encryption, Java Security, X.509 Certificates, XAdES, Java EE, Swing and VoIP.
Martin Valkanov is senior software engineer in eBG.bg. He has solid development experience in Java and open source technologies, Web applications, databases and enterprise systems.
Peter Milev is experienced Java engineer. He has years of experience in Java and open source technologies, focusing on Web applications with AJAX and database systems.
Svetoslav Kapralov is senior software engineer, experienced in various Java technologies and frameworks.
Vesko Arnaudov is senior software engineer in VMware Inc.. He has many years of experience as developer, team leader, trainer and consultant. His expertise includes Java, Java EE, Oracle, Web and enterprise applications.
The Referees Team
Svetlin Nakov is software engineer with more than 10 years of experience in the development of Java, .NET, Web and Win32 applications, software engineering consultant and trainer, author of 4 books and above 30 technical articles and presentations. He is one of the founders and currently chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD), director training and consulting activities in the National Academy for Software Development (NASD) and one of the founders of the Bulgarian Java User Group and author of open source projects. Visit his blog here: http://www.nakov.com/blog/.
Nikolay Todorov is team lead in Musala Soft. He has strong commercial experience with both Java and .NET (he is Microsoft Certified Application Developer with .NET) and solid practice and knowledge about software development processes, including Agile.
Stanimir Boychev is technical director and managing partner in Musala Soft. His 12+ years experience in the area of software development covers a very broad set of technologies, including architecting and leading Java EE and .NET projects.
Venue
The event will be held on 11 December 2007 (Tuesday), 18:00 h in Park Hotel “Moscow”, Sofia, Hall “Moscow”.
Sponsors
The event is sponsored by two leading software companies in Bulgaria: telerik and Musala Soft.
Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD) kindly invites you to the next meeting of the Bulgarian Java User Group (BGJUG). The topic will be “Rich Client Applications using NetBeans 6 and Java Swing”. The objectives of this seminar is to show how to easily develop Rich Client applications using NetBeans 6 and Swing. The focus will be on the new features recently added to Swing.
Speaker will be Miroslav Nachev, software engineer with 18 years of experience.
The implicit variable declarations with “var” keyword (like in C# 3.0) can significantly reduce the ammount of code developers write every day. For example the code below:
could be simplified to:
We could use even more interesting constructs like this:
The type of the “entires” and “entry” variables is implicitly defined from the right side of the expressions in the above code so we don’t want to write the boring and long type definition.
Nice! I am very happy to see this in C# 3.0. Why not in Java 7 too? What do you think?
I use GForge, an open-source software for collaboration in a development team for almost all my projects: software projects, courses, consulting projects, etc.
I am very happy with GForge. It provides integrated set of collaboration tools: Subversion, CVS, project tracking tools, bug tracking, management of projects and users (create, manage, modify projects and users), and configurable security. You can create new project, create users and assign access rules for these users.
Where to Start From with GForge?
I prefer running GForge on a virtual machine instead on a real PC to simplify backup, migration and support of the system. If you want to start using GForge, I recommend you to download and run a VMWare virtual machine image from http://gforge.org/ and configure it. You would like to configure some files and settings as mentioned below.
Configure Network and Hostname
First you need to configure the networking settings. I prefer using bridged network and join the virtual machine as part of the existing network.
The hostname is pre-set to gforgedemo.com so you first need to create local DNS and hosts entries. To change the hostname, there are several files in /etc/* that you need to modify. Alter the hostname and IP address to your needs:
Test the system by logging with the default administrator, delete it and create new administrator and users. Create some sample projects and test it they work.
Configure Scheduled Tasks
By default if you register a new project, its SVN and CVS repositories will be created in few minutes, not immediately. You may need to reconfigure the speed of the scheduled tasks in the crontab file (in Red Hat it is /etc/cron.daily). Modify this line:
Be careful because by default all newly registered projectas are public and can be accesses (in read only mode) by any users at the system, including guests. You should edit projects and mark them private to enforce security. Thus only authenticated users belonging to the project could access it.
Configure External (Internet) Access
You may want to enable access to the GForge server form Internet. You may not have static real IP address and may want to access the SVN without establishing VPN connection to your internal network. You can make a portmap to enable accessing the GForge server from your network (e.g. http://192.168.0.17:80) through your real IP address on another port through SSL, e.g. https://dev.external-ip.mycompany.com:8080.
This is not enough! You will soon discover that GForge redirects all your external requests from dev.external-ip.mycompany.com:8080 to the internal server, e.g. 192.168.0.17:80. To disable this feature edit this file: /opt/gforge/gforge-4.5.4/www/include/pre.php and comment the redirection code (fragment of it is shown below):
/*
redirect to proper hostname to get around certificate problem on IE 5
*/
if ($HTTP_HOST != $GLOBALS[’sys_default_domain’] && $HTTP_HOST …
The topic of this event is “Web Development Technologies: ASP.NET vs. Java & JSF vs. PHP vs. Ruby”. The .NET team will present the ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and the new ASP.NET extensions in .NET Framework 3.5. The Java team will stand up for JavaServer Faces (JSF), Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Echo Framework and other Java Web development frameworks. The PHP team will stand up for the Web frameworks in PHP, especially the Symphony framework. The Ruby team will stand for Ruby on Rails.
