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Jim Alateras

Areas of Expertise:

  • open source
  • Ruby
  • Rails
  • emerging technologies
  • BPM
  • semantic web
  • consulting

Biography

Jim Alateras is an independent consultant specializing in open source and emerging technologies. He has degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering and has been working in the software development space for more than 18 years holding many different positions including Programmer, Team Leader, Senior Technical Architect, Consultant, Engineering Manager and CTO. He has worked on the product development side and large scale application development for both larger organizations and start-up companies. Jim has participants in several open source projects, presented at open source conferences and has written several articles and contributed to books. Currently, he is working, developing products and best practices, in the Web Services, Semantic Web and Business Process Management space.

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Publising CAP Alerts using APP

August 14 2007

James Snell has just published an article on developWorks, which illustrates how to use the Atom Publishing Protocol to publish Common Alert Protocol (CPA) alerts. CAP defines a XML data model for specifying hazardous alerts and notifications. The article uses... read more

restlet 1.0.4 released!

July 30 2007

restlet v1.0.4 was released last week with improved Spring integration. Check out the change log or download the zip archive. The public restlet maven repository will be updated on the 1st August. Well done Jerome, Thierry et al! read more

From Maven to Buildr

July 02 2007

On a recent flight from Boston to Melbourne i decided to have a play around with buildr and convert a small rest based web application from maven to buildr. Buildr is a ruby-based DSL build system for Java applications. The ruby plugin comes from the folks @ Intalio and born… read more

Rake Tutorial

June 17 2007

Nice introductory tutorial on Rake from the guys @ Rails Envy, which provides a brief history, introduces concepts such as tasks and namespaces and talks about its role within Rails. read more

The Concordia Project

June 07 2007

The Concordia Project is an effort to define an interoperability layer between the various security specifications and protocols. The project is represented by members from Liberty Alliance, OpenID, WS-Federation, CardSpace and SAML 2.0. The first task for this group is... read more

Cool JavaScript Data Time Widget

March 28 2007

Here is a nice looking javascript date widget that you can embed in your RoR application. Instructions on installing the widget into your Rails applications is provided on the home page. I’ll definitely be giving it a whirl. read more

Cool JavaScript Data Time Widget

March 28 2007

Here is a nice looking “javascript date widget”:http://datetime.toolbocks.com/ that you can embed in your RoR application. Instructions on installing the widget into your Rails applications is provided on the home page. I’ll definitely be giving it a whirl. read more

The Road to Learning CSS

March 25 2007

Since picking up RoR I have had to dig in to technologies which I had previously only glanced at. One of these is CSS, part of the DHTML set of technologies. The experience has been rewarding and at times frustrating but the outcomes has been positive. It is a technology that… read more

RoR on Sun Java System Web Server

March 20 2007

Today I came across this article, which describes how to install RoR on a Sun Java System Web Server 7.0. read more

Rails For All

March 19 2007

Rails for All is a RoR web site, which is interested in promoting RoR as the platform of choice for user centric, database-backed web application. The site allows you to promote your Ruby or RoR users group and also register yourself or your company as RoR developers. RoR content portals are… read more

Lighting the RadRails Fires

March 18 2007

It’s old news now that Aptana has picked up the RadRails development effort and you’d probably notices that the radrails.org domain no longer exists. The new domain is radrails.net. Aptana has already introduced nightly builds and are working towards a 0.8 release, although I couldn’t find any information on time… read more

RoR Blog Resources

March 18 2007

There has been more talk on top RoR blogs on the the ror-talk mailing list this week. Here are five blogs i subscribe too. Loud Thinking Riding Rails Ruby Inside Nuby on Rails Rails Envy read more

Navigational Menus

March 11 2007

Recently on the ror-talk mailing list there was a question on navigational menus, which revealed some interesting resources. link_to_unless_current helper Goldberg, Integrated Site Design for RoR NavTab Plugin” The navtab plugin, which is part of SeeSaw toolbox, is a neat little plugin, which provides instant support for tabs in your web… read more

Books on Agile Methodology

March 09 2007

I recently replied to an email on the ror-talk mailing list about resources on agile methodology and RoR. Here are four non-RoR specific resources that i have used during the past 12 months Lean Software Development Getting Real Practices of an Agile Developer Martin Fowler’s Site I’d like to hear what resources other… read more

Looking for a new Rails IDE for Windows

March 04 2007

It looks like development for the RadRails plugin for Eclipse has stalled and the key contributors are flat out working on a startup venture. Who can blame them we all need to eat. So the search for an alternative Windows Ruby\RailsIDE has started. I’ve read a log about textmate/, the… read more

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