There's a long way ahead, but plenty of opportunities

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3/10/11
Lluis Turró Cutiller
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The Turro.Org Foundation is taking place in the near future, you can read about it in Organization -> Foundation. The organization solely might not be attractive for business opportunities: free software and basic documentation will be made available for system administrators and for developers, see Documents -> Javadoc -> Full report as example.

But things change if you stop selling software and, instead, bring support and services. Then Turro.Org Foundation will be clearly a good choice. Here are some pros:

Entity Serializer and Log System working together, dream in angels... sleep well

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30/9/11
Lluis Turró Cutiller
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apis

Elephant was providing a Log System, widely used by the whole set of modules. The Log System had also a view where we could see what was going on on our web site. Who entered the system, how many times a file was downloaded, which document was saved or deleted and so on and on. Quite useful, really, because we could follow up the moment something was created, modified or deleted. And who did the action. Yes, and then what? You might think... you go and ask the one who did it what was the deleted content?

We knew what happened but, if this was the case, could scarcely do something to repear it.

Elephant is bursting with elements, get documentation ready!

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22/9/11
Lluis Turró Cutiller
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apis

Elephant has a complex page construction, element composed and factory driven. Thus, Elephant has powerful configuration grounds and might walk soundly step by step.

To understand what goes on when rendering the HTML, we first need to understand what a page is. One page, one context. One context, multiple layout and content elements. Real world, though, shows that most of times, pages are composed by layout elements spanning site-wide and a single content element. Real life is complex, but follows phisics laws.

Producing... products?

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10/9/11
Lluis Turró Cutiller
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financials products

Since I started writing code for the enterprise, products where the stars on Moneyland sky. Everything is a product: services, merchandise, manufactures... everything is worth buying or using. Thus, you have something, you give it a code and the magic starts: you have a product. No matter if its free or costs money.

Patents, profitable investments and ridiculous stoppers

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26/8/11
Lluis Turró Cutiller
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Today showed up in a mailed article that Steve Jobs owned a patent on glass staircases. Did he had in mind fabricate staircases? Glass staircases? Or did he saw somebody with one and thought: What the hell! Let's put some money on this and wait for future rewards. Again came to my head the time when Microsoft wanted to patent the fact of writing documents in XML format... even before they use it and after the Open Document Foundation created the open document format and OpenOffice ship it as standard! Crazy world, indeed.