Getting Started: My first few hours on Scala & Lift framework

After my last few posts I realized that how screwed my mind is right now (just joking ), so thought to explore more about Scala which was pending for some time for me. Here I will share the first few hours spent on Scala and Lift (scala web framework) and getting started with it.

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Agile in the Downturn: How the team Dynamics changes?

Some time back I tried to cover the topic Agile Development: Balancing Individualism and Teamwork . There after a lot similar topics has been discussed around like Teamwork Is An Individual Skill and few further follow up discussions.

Now in the current economic climate how Agile will behave, how it can help and how the team dynamics may change is something which is bothering me more now a days. Allan Kelly covered something similar here Agile in the Downturn. In general terms also people do talk about it like Teamwork takes a dent in recession and Recession ‘killing of teamwork’.

Wicket Portlet Development on WebSphere Portal – Lessons Learnt

This post will share some of the lessons learnt during JSR 286 Wicket (1.4-rc2) Portlet Development on WebSphere Portal 6.1. Some of the issues were only specific to a particular environment like it was working fine on local dev environment but it failed on testing environment. For some of the issues, I have not debugged the cause of the problem but would like to share what worked in my case.

Portlet xsd event-definition Element Declaration:

The first time when I added event-definition in the portlet deployment descriptor (portlet.xml), I got the following error: