Comments for Aeroplane Software: Sakai Consulting

Comment on The Business Value of SOA by Chris Haddad

Chris Haddad — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:11:45 +0000

More insights from Anne Thomas Manes and Burton Group's Application Platform Strategies team can be found in our free research section and blog.

Comment on The Winding Journey of Java DB by AZ

AZ — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:51:39 +0000

Too bad derby (and probably javaDB as well) does not support limit and offset queries. Other than that it is quite nice. You can hack around the limit one by forcing it with JDBC max rows but I think this is a major missing feature.

Comment on The Business Value of SOA by Charles Severance

Charles Severance — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:27:46 +0000

I liked this as well. She does a great job of pointing our that this is not about the "one technology to rule them all". The most important lesson that was my take away was more about reducing redundancy and less about one-size-fits-all technology that is jammed down IT folks throats. She says that SOA is not just getting everyone to use one single Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Looked at through the lens she presents - it is easier to see where my organization (UM) is already doing some things using an SOA approach - things like UMIAC (our course information service) and our Cosign single sign on are the best example of real SOA as described by Anne.

The neat bit is that if you decide that reducing redundancy is the goal - then you can use whatever technology works at the moment - and deploy real and effective SOA solutions that really work and ultimately do improve function and saves money.

Comment on New Screencast: the Sakai App Builder Plugin for Eclipse by David Horwitz

David Horwitz — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:54:42 +0000

The app builder is also useful for reminding your self how to do things (if like me you have sporadic episodes of tool building). Simply use the app builder to generate the CRUD application for your framework and you have a very good clear example of how it should look.

Comment on IMS Common Cartridge Alliance by Andrew Evans

Andrew Evans — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:00:39 +0000

Hi Zach,

According to this PowerPoint slide IMS are going to make a public release of the specs in March. Not sure if testing tools, etc are going to be available to public users though.

Cheers,

-Andrew

Comment on Getting Started with Sakai: Setting Up Eclipse by Michael Korcuska Sakai Blog

Michael Korcuska Sakai Blog — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:45:43 +0000

My First Build of Sakai (thanks, Zach)...

With a little help from the excellent tutorial videos that Zach Thomas of Aeroplane Software has produced, I just completed my first successful build of Sakai (version 2-5-0RC01b).

I’ve also set up Eclipse and am starting play around with tha...

Comment on Sakai As It Could Be by Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:06:53 +0000

Zack,

I think we agree.

I’m as eager as you are to see more evidence of Sakai’s potential realized. I am encouraged by some examples like the one Steven points out from Edia, and some of the stuff Cambridge is working on (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/MYSAK/Home) , etc. Meanwhile there’s still a lot of work going into the base software functions and some of the core platform services.

The point I was intending to make is that Sakai isn’t on a trajectory to produce another monolithic application. There’s some encouraging evidence that it can serve as a platform for innovation. It’s even more encouraging to think that the examples we have today have been developed in a period where much of the community effort has been focused on the basics. My hope is that we’ll be emerging from that stage soon and entering a stage where our collective energy can shift from primiarly working on the basics to really demonstrating the potential of the platform.

Comment on Sakai As It Could Be by zach

zach — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:52:28 +0000

This looks great, Stephen. I can think of a lot of ways you could use collaborative map-making for teaching. Edia (www.edia.nl) deserves a pat on the back for that one. I think the distributed nature of today’s web tools suggests that Sakai should have a strategy not only for embedding and combining outside elements (the classic mashup), but also pervasive publication and consumption of feeds (classic syndication). This really seems to be the direction the technology is going.

Comment on Sakai As It Could Be by Stephen Marquard

Stephen Marquard — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:34:33 +0000

We’ve just added the Sakai Maps tool (http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/MAPS) as a generally available tool in our production Sakai instance (Vula).

It’s a great example of a Web 2.0 mashup - Google Maps made easy to use in a teaching context by locating it in a site where map references can be collaboratively updated. It’s already been successfully used in a postgraduate History course.

Comment on Texas State: Faculty to Faculty Testimonials by Michael Korcuska

Michael Korcuska — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:28:02 +0000

This is fantastic, Zach. I love the testimonials and the emphasis on the non-technological issues. Hats off to you and everyone at Texas State!