Trampoline Systems Feed http://www.trampolinesystems.com Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:06:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/humans/2008/07/03/its-not-just-who-you-know/ We’ve been discussing the issue highlighted by this posting internally. I think that the question boils down to this: Do people currently feel so proprietary about their professional connections that they feel their connections must remain confidential to remain professionally competitive? In the fairly recent past some have certainly felt this way, but the interent is radically [...] Peter Biddle Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/humans/2008/06/27/japanese-business-culture-and-social-computing/ A couple of weeks ago I was in Sapporo at the Infinity Ventures Summit (the site’s in Japanese) to talk about the role of informal networks in business and show off Trampoline’s SONAR Suite. This is the largest technology innovation conference in Japan, bringing together the leading start-ups, corporations, analysts and investors. The focus was [...] Charles Armstrong Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/humans/2008/06/20/worktech08-north/ Charles Armstrong, Trampoline’s CEO, will be speaking at WorkTech08 North in a few week’s time. WorkTech, organised by the Cordless Group, is a forum on the future of work and the workplace and is in it’s fifth year. The theme this time is Creative Places, New Media and The Future of Work, so it’s likely [...] Rebecca Kemp Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/humans/2008/06/17/visualivideo/ I had a video made from the visualisations in Trampoline’s products for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference party. The party played with the theme “No man is an island”, for which we had this video showing, blow ups of Charles’ photography from St. Agnes (the tiny island on which he did the ethnographic research into information [...] Rebecca Kemp Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/humans/2008/06/11/e2-wednesday-the-toaster-killing-cloud-e2-clusterfage-you-give-good-boothage-theres-such-a-thing-as-too-much-stuphs-great-party/ It’s Wednesday afternoon at Enterprise 2.0. In spite of a few frustrating failures in infrastructure, it?s been a really great two days here at E2 for Trampoline.   Right now I?m sitting in the EMC booth stealing their hardline because WiFi is down (again) and our hardline is down (again). Evidently Enterprise 2.0 still doesn?t mean reliable [...] Peter Biddle Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/humans/2008/06/02/the-hub-ftw-enterprise-20-in-boston-starts-in-a-week/ Trampoline will be in Boston in force in a week’s time (starting Monday 8 June) for Enterprise 2.0. There are some great sessions, but the very best one will be the one where we buy you drinks - that’s Tuesday night. It says “smart dress is appreciated” but what we’d really like is if you show up [...] Peter Biddle Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/humans/2008/05/19/on-the-hunt-for-a-marketing-executive/ Trampoline’s looking for a Marketing Executive. It will be a challenging and fun role, ideal for a graduate or second-jobber. If you’re interested, or know someone who might be, please give me a shout! rebecca [at] trampolinesystems [dot] com, or +44 207 253 6959. Rebecca Kemp Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/humans/2008/05/13/gartner-top-10-disruptive-technologies-in-2008/ Gartner is showing their top 10 disruptive technologies for 2008 right now here in Barcelona, and there’s some great stuff in here for us. I’m going to stick with the top 5 as we have plenty to think about there, and frankly the bottom 5 are a bit less clear so there’s not as much [...] Peter Biddle Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/humans/2008/05/09/habla-espanol-gartner-symposiumitxpo-2008-barcelona/ I will be in Spain next week at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008, representin’ Trampoline. There are some cool sounding sessions, and evidently there is also a concurrent Gartner event (why oh why do people run two events at once in the same place? it’s hard enough with 5+ tracks in one event!) for us plucky [...] Peter Biddle Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/humans/2008/05/06/marketing-and-morals-no-woman-is-an-island/ In which a sticker not only ignites the latent inner arts critic of your correspondent. It arouses her rampant, explicit feminist. One of the four or five women I spoke to on the Web 2.0 Expo floor declined a ?No man is an island? sticker with the rebuttal ?I?m a woman.? I was dumbstruck, a rare [...] Rebecca Kemp Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/machines/2008/07/02/removing-global-fixtures-for-ruby-tests/ global fixtures are evil, but we’ve got a bunch of unit tests depending on them, so we still need them around here’s a neat [and generally fast, though a degenerate O(#tables^2) case is possible] way of deleting all fixtures without invoking db dependent ways of ignoring foreign-key constraints, and without loading all the objects into memory [...] Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/machines/2008/05/21/open-visualisation-workshop-at-the-trampery/ Trampoline Systems is hosting a visualisation workshop this coming Saturday, 24th May, organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Come along if you’re interested in open source visualisation technologies (Prefuse, Flare etc.). The goal is to have a very informal setting to talk about various aspects of visualising data. Find out more in the official announcement. Hope [...] Jan Berkel Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/machines/2008/05/19/creating-dmg-files-without-macos-x/ I’ve put together a script for creating DMG files without using OS X…it requires Linux, I’ve tested it on Kubuntu 7.10 but it should work on anything recent. Run the following commands: # This gets and builds a patched version of Apple's diskdev_cmds package which will work on Linux wget http://www.mythic-beasts.com/resources/appletv/mb_boot_tv/diskdev_cmds-332.14.tar.gz wget http://www.ecl.udel.edu/~mcgee/diskdev_cmds/diskdev_cmds-332.14.patch.bz2 tar xzf diskdev_cmds-332.14.tar.gz bunzip2 -c diskdev_cmds-332.14.patch.bz2 | patch [...] Jon Cowie Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/machines/2007/09/05/media-ajax-2007/ I have the honour and terror of presenting at @media Ajax on home turf this November. It?s a privilege to be speaking alongside the likes of Brendan Eich (creator of Javascript), Douglas Crockford (inventor of JSON), John Resig (JQuery lead) and about a dozen other top dogs. Mike Stenhouse Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/machines/2007/08/02/springy-03-released/ No big changes this time, mainly compatibility fixes for JRuby 1.0. It is now also possible to build the project using Maven, for those too afraid to use rake. Documentation and code for springy are available here. Jan Berkel Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/machines/2007/07/24/tracing-file-access-on-mac-osx/ I just started working at Trampoline Systems yesterday. Some of you might know my blog already (the one with kitten pics and programming rants). The first thing I did was configuring all the software on my new MacBook. Most of it went all right without any problems, but a few gems didn?t want to install, complaining about jni.h missing. jni.h was on the box, so the problem was basically that the gems were looking for it in a wrong place. Problems like that can usually be solved by strace -e trace=file gem install whatever | grep 'jni.h' and a symlink. Not this time, because Macs does have strace. There?s something called ktrace, but it didn?t seem to provide information I needed. Tomasz Wegrzanowski Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/machines/2007/07/13/java-and-rails-integration-with-goldspike/ While trying to create a unified testing framework (shared between Rails and our Java backend code) I came across ActiveRecordJDBC which is an adapter to use JDBC drivers with JRuby on Rails. It works fine, although it can be a bit complicated to get a DRY database.yml configuration. The goal is to get rid of our dbunit/manually crafted database tests on the Java side by using ActiveRecord fixtures. After some research I found out about the Rails integration project (now called GoldSpike), which tries to make it easy to deploy a Rails app on a Java servlet container such as jetty. As far as I know Thoughtworks uses this approach to deploy their new product, Mingle. GoldSpike is under constant development but it is already usable, although a few patches were required. After everything was set up, a simple Jan Berkel Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/machines/2007/07/10/growl-lastfm/ We use last.fm a lot in the office - but one thing I always found annoying was that there?s no easy way to find out what?s currently playing (you need to go to the web page and hit refresh, very distracting) so I knocked up a little ruby script which uses growl to display the currently playing song. Jan Berkel Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/machines/2007/07/06/select-distinct-with-xslt/ While working on some tweaks to our website I decided that for the archive I needed to be able to select a list of categories used. Should be easy, right? Here?s a sample of the XML: Mike Stenhouse Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.trampolinesystems.com/blog/machines/2007/06/28/installing-oracle-10g-on-64-bit-centos-5/ We?ve just got ourselves a couple of new servers for running SONAR on, for internal use and demonstration. They are quite beefy, with 8GB RAM, 15k disks, and 8 x 3.2GHz threads. We decided to go with centos 5 as the operating system, since we have had pain installing Oracle on our debian platforms. Here is the install procedure I uncovered, which gets the server ready for SONAR on either MySQL or oracle. It covers installing Ruby, RubyGems, lots of useful Gems, Java, and Oracle 10g Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0100