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Saw this good youtube video about IBM websphere commerce presentation.

Installing drupal normally is a fairly easy task. The installation for 5.x is still much better than 4.x versions; its as easy as setting the database values correctly in the sites/default/settings.php config file and there you go after dropping the drupal on to your webserver drupal installs smoothly.

Drupal supports multisite installation with single code base with options of single database (prefixing the tables) or using multiple tables. Using single installation and single database is the easiest option and by default the settings.php normally go into the sites/default folder.

Okay to support multiple site is sometimes crucial and drupal supports multisite installation on a single code base. Okay there are documentation but that sometimes may look scary for you. Actually installting multisite is easy. Just follow the steps I outline here. But before that some of the benefits for multiple site installation.

As you know that websphere application server 5.1 is a 2.3 container and you will have to deploy jstl 1.0 jars and when you sometimes use jstl it throws this class not found error javax/servlet/jsp/el/ELException. Actually this class has been moved to the new jsp api specifications and you will not be finding in the jstl 1.0 jars either in the jakarta standard implementation or from the sun download site. You will have to download the jsp-ap2.0.jar from this link
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/jspapi/...sp-api-2.0.jar

Adding the above to your classpath will solve your problem in websphere however if you are developing in tomcat 5.x, you will have remove the jsp-api.jar from your classpath otherwise you will start to get another strange error (Failed to load or instantiate TagExtraInfo class error).

some of the resources on xp for you to get started:

• planning extreme programming by famous kent beck and martin flower
• agile and iterative development
  
• agile retrospectives, making good teams greater
  
  

xplanner is the one if you have java hosting, it needs bit of hibernate knowledge to install, its not as easy as xpweb though, but once you do a proper hibernate configuration then xplanner installs smoothly. Xplanner is simple to use, has simple interface and does the basic stuff like iterations and stories and tasks very well.

I was using myEclipse and reverse engineering a file on iSeries for hibernate and was using myEclipse hibernate jars. An application which was tested and working with 'identity' generator was not working now and I was digging hard to fix it. I tried the unstable 'increment' and sequence generators. For some reason I was not able to make sequence generators to work although iSeries supports it.

It kept on giving me that the driver (jt400) is not supporting this function (identity generator) .After long struggle I downloaded the hibernate latest 3.2.4 and replaced the hibernate.jar and yep that fixed the problem. So if you are using myEclipse IDE and using iSeries (especially hibernate reverse engineering) then better to replace the hibernate.jar from myeclipse jars with the latest. Also in the .hbm mapping file make sure that you are not specifying the schema attribute as well as full schema in the table attribute in class element.

XPWeb could be your choice if you have a php environment and the best one in my opinion. Installing is a breeze as usual and the product is mature and reliable. It is more flexible in user management and creating profiles. It comes default with many roles like developer, admin, coach and so on and has the flexibility of creating your own profile if you wish and the access control also works great.

The project planning is perfectly done and creating iterations and stories is a breeze and less painful. You will enjoy creating itertaions for a week and adding the stories and tasks absolutley with less pain and it will make you great to follow the iterations and complete your iterations and thus feeling great abt your methodology and programming. 

If you are used to extreme programming techniques (agile methodology - if you are new to this then see resources at the end) then you must sure be carving for a xp tool for your programming purposes. Actually you can have some thing called index stories , which you might simply write it on some index cards with story number, priority and description during your initial meetings and creating iterations and so on, writing sticky notes and things like that. (you might also be interested in scrum)

That kind of process works for big teams with big projects and so on. If you dont want to get used to that kind of process why not use a xp tool?.

One of the features I like most in gallery photo software is its slideshow module. When you want to have a quick glimpse of the album fastly or after a long time you want to refresh your memory with your albums slideshows are a great way to do that.

Here are some of the slideshows in my albums 

slideshow for one of the album for srilankan trip
slide show for kumarakom album
slide show for jarirbookstore it dept