Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Indulging Open Source Technologies

Its been more than a year since I last wrote here. And I must say that since then I have continued to learn new stuff and was really amazed by the technology I've been using.

I am now working for G2iX Philippines and since day 1 has been FULLY exposed to open source technology. I've used and played around with open source tech like Spring, Hibernate, Maven, etc. But I have not fully indulged myself in them.

This company hasn't only used open source technologies but has encouraged their employees to really bring back something to the community. It is through them that I have learned what "committership" is. The place is just full of committers, PMCs, tech evangelists, etc. :)

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It is only now that I fully appreciate Maven and started to really care about what my pom.xml contains. Keeping it clean and streamlined. I know that I still haven't fully exhausted the functionality that Maven has to offer but with my current tasks and further working with this company, I hope to learn more.

For the past months, I have dealt with Liferay, Xalan, Rome, Lucene, Spring MVC, and now JMS Remoting. And I hope I could share stuff as I go along. I'll try to post more!