SQL and Fusion Charts

My first "coding" task for FetchBack deals with SQL, php and fusion charts. The most difficult part is getting to know the FB data. Both what it means and where it lives. From what I've seen of fusion charts so far, it looks like a real nice charting solution.

Cron and php

Over the next few days I will be learning about the worlds of cron and php scripting. Cron works in a style very different from my brain so this will be an interesting adventure. php has never made it onto my radar other then water-cooler speak, so diving into existing php scripts and attempting to make them more efficient, could prove to be interesting as well. As stated in my previous blog posting. Learning new things is always good. However, can the same be said about learning new old things? Hmmmm.

But for tonight, I'm back in my comfy EJB3 world debugging some live code that is hiccuping along the way. It appears that one piece of functionality works locally and in the dev test environment but fails in production. Don't you just love environment issues. Apparently the client doesn't care that it "works on my machine". How rude!

Tapestry

Today I learn tapestry. From a glimpse it looks like a lot of work. I'm coming from years of working in a Glassfish/EJB3/JPA stack. I've had dates with Spring/Hibernate projects as well that tie together using Spring MVC. Learning new things is a fun part of my industry, gives me the ability to debate intelligently for/against certain tools and methodologies.

With that said, apache tapestry here I come...

UNIX

I'm learning more of the guts of UNIX today. I've known the commands in the past but not the history. Time to learn about the various flavors of UNIX, the shells and such.

Call me a nerd but this stuff is interesting!

Did another mysql dump/load today and am setting up tomcat. Working on getting my new company's application running locally. Slowly but surely...

Eclipse - Ant and such

I'm back into the world of Eclipse and Ant today. How much will I miss Netbeans, Maven and Archiva by the end of the day? Time will tell.

I also need to complete the move of our subversion repository from a machine in Louisville to a box in Tempe. After that I'll be installing Confluence somewhere, destination unknown.

Lots going on

Today I'm working on a few things. Getting up close and personal with Subversion and it's 'move' capabilities. Downloading and perusing my new employer's code base, and researching a few things: blog software, CMS solutions, Jameleon and JMeter.

This is why I love my job, there is always more to learn.

FetchBack

Today I became an employee at FetchBack. I'm very excited.
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