Archive for September, 2011

WSO2 PHP’s WSF Library (or whatever the damn it is called…) and Turmeric SOA

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The title of this post is verbose enough about the feelings I have regarding the naming of this library. It’s as if WSO2 took a page from Microsoft’s book regarding names. What’s next? A Home Edition? Maybe throw in Professional, Business and Ultimate versions too for good measure.

Don’t take me wrong, I have no special feelings towards names themselves, it’s just how difficult it makes to search for people working on the same things and facing the same problems. What do I Google for? WSO2? WSF? PHP? Any combination of these? It’s only made worse by these guys developing frameworks in several platforms, which means I end up finding completely unrelated results from a different implementation, in a different technology.

But, naming rants aside, I thought it would be a good idea to share my experience with getting this library up and running on PHP. I came across this library when converting Apache Stonehenge’s web application to use Turmeric’s instances of Stonehenge’s web services, and it gave me quite some headaches. For this reason, and so that other people in the future don’t have to go through the same painful experiences, I decided to write this blog post. Keep reading if I got your attention… Continue Reading

Black and white icons for Caffeine

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This is gonna be a quick and short post about a tool I use on my Mac called “Caffeine“. This tool essentially allows me, at the click of a button, to disable the display’s dim and eventual turn off function. It’s useful when you’re reading something and you won’t be touching the keyboard or the mouse, but you’d still like the screen to be on. It’s useful also when I’m playing along a guitar tab and I can’t afford to stop playing just to get the screen back on.

Anyway, this tool places an icon on the status bar. The only problem is that this icon is in color and it just stands out in my status bar like a sore thumb. SO! I created a new icon set. You can get it by clicking here. Scroll down to have a look at the icons before you download it.

All you have to do is copy them to /Applications/Caffeine.app/Contents/Resources/ et voilà! I’ve included two more icons (not shown here) for the right click behavior.

Icons:

This is what it looks like in action:

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