Shortly before winter vacation, an IBM colleague contacted me to learn more about how extensibility – particularly web UI extensibility – works in the IBM Rational Jazz Platform on which I work. After typing up my response I thought it might be interesting to a broader audience so I’ve reposted it here (with some minor [...]
Between early 2006 and early this year, my team at IBM Rational and I built a framework for component-based Ajax development for use in the Rational Jazz platform. The framework’s capabilities aren’t the focus of this entry, so I’ll just list some of them briefly:
A nice component model based on OSGi bundles and the Dojo [...]
Tagged designOn Monday there were two notable changes at the Jazz.net web site I manage:
We opened up registration to everyone (previously it had only been to Rational customers and business partners)
We made the Jazz Team Blog public
I wrote the first entry on the Jazz team blog, and it outlines the sorts of things we’re going to [...]
As I mentioned on Twitter, as of this week I’ve got a new job of managing the Jazz.net community site. I’ll continue to lead the development on the framework-y pieces of the Jazz Platform web UI stack.
This is going to be a fun job since we’re trying something relatively new with the Jazz Project that [...]
Update: Changed title; original one sounded too presumptuous (was “what development tools do you need besides Jazz?”)
Aaron Cohen of Rational asked an interesting question in the Jazz.net forum the other day. I’ve reprinted his question and my answer here verbatim, with permission from Aaron and the Jazz Project.
Question (Cohen):
Right now Jazz.net uses Wikis and newsgroups [...]
I’ll be in Beijing, China next week giving a couple of talks on the Jazz Platform and Rational Team Concert:
Rational Team Concert: Agile Team Development with Jazz
When? Thursday, 30 Aug 2007 (Time TBD)
Where? The Rational Software Development Conference (RSDC) China, Beijing Landmark Towers
What? A product-focused presentation on the Jazz Platform, the Rational [...]
I was in Santa Clara this last week at EclipseCon 2007. I participated, along with several other Jazz component leads, in a demo Wednesday night called “Jazz in Action: Building Jazz with Jazz”. Last year, we demo’d Jazz on a special demo server, this year we demo’d using our self-hosting server – i.e. [...]
In the last week of the most recent Jazz milestone, I realized that I was running out of time to give one of the web features a UI overhaul. Jen Hayes, the primary web UI designer, had sent me a spec more than a month before but I hadn’t implemented it because I was [...]
The other day, I thought of a clever solution to speed up an important Jazz function by perhaps 20-40% (depending on a set of environmental factors). I eagerly documented the solution in a bug report and CC’d several teammates. Several times over the past week, I almost went ahead and just coded the [...]
I first came in contact with the Jazz project back in 2005 while I was working as an IT architect in IBM Global Services. A couple of IGS and Rational managers agreed that it would be a good idea if I shared with the Jazz team some of my experiences working on large IT [...]