Sometimes papinet message was not generated because of some errors in Order (for example transshipment point should have been Verbrugge, but instead it is something that was not recognized as Verbrugge). When Order is fixed papinet message should be generated anew in order to sent it to the client.

In order to do that:

1. Login to Verbrugge host
2. execute the following URL:
   [verbruggeHostUrl]/export/edi/import/[newpl]/fileName?name=PapinetContainerTransport&target=papinet
   

For TrackedRead resources we need extra Actions. This should work like in Webmail. We need to be able to mark all resources in RL as read, or mark certain resources as read - this should work like existing delete action.  On resource view page we should have action 'mark as unread'.

Mobiles and netbooks create the need to have a grid with variable column number. Otherwise we force users to do horizontal scrolling.

we need this in:

1. RL grid layout (painted by GenericCustomizer.java)
2. 1. image gallery application on iPhone. When iPhone is turned to landscape position grid should readjust itself.
      
   2. 'add from gallery' on small netbook screens
3. Full Text search results when we display Categories (painted by ResourcesSearch.java)
4. Control Panel
   

This site shows how to do it by replacing HTML Table with CSS grid. Note: try to change the width of browser window and see this grid above behaves.

More resources:
smart columns
image gallery on iphone
dynamic resizing of divs for multi-column viewing

We need to continue optimizing the front end. Here is some areas of work:

1. Do not set cookies for image serving domains. Firebug PageSpeed test says that Lablz home page load 40K of cookies just on images served from i.lablz.com, i1.lablz.com, etc.
2. Increase image load parallelism by defining more image domains (i3.lablz.com, i4, i5 etc.). FireBug PageSpeed test tells us we should do that. I think we have to add logic to use this pool of servers conditionally if request came from the modern browser, like IE8+, FF3+, Chrome 2+, Opera 10+
   
   

Make look and feel of desktop menus and mobile menus almost identical - with the exception that desktop menu shows up as a dialog.

Would it be possible to add a property to href which allows the option of setting the target (parent, blank etc)? This would be useful to your originating page and also if a lablz site is embedded.

Bookmark classes and Voc UI classes should not be returned by text search along with other business resources. They confuse users. On the other hand we need to have the ability to search them separately. So, let's introduce a new class annotation, e.g. textSearchContext . Classes without this annotation will be considered to be in global site-level context.

Implementation notes

indexing - add field searchContext
search - if class has textSearchContext annotation then add extra searchContext parameter to search query.

Touch UI has less real estate for Filter properties, so to avoid scrolling we need to show the most used props on the top.
Possible approaches:

1. we could need track which props were used on every Filter submit. The drawback is that the statistics will accumulate only after users will perform a decent amount of Filter searches. Another drawback is that this approach does not eliminate properties that are never set.
   
2. we could maintain statistics of which properties have more values. On any particular site only a subset of properties of a given class have values. And even among those that have values some are always set, while others are rarely set. The properties with higher number of values should be shown on top. Those that have no values can be skipped altogether.
   

Implementation notes

We could use ClassUsage resources to accumulate the property use statistics. Alternatively we could use new WebProperty class from Vocabulary UI component.

Introducing Parent organization in ExternalOrganization class to be able to handle requests from Holding WebSite to Partner WebSite.

The problem is the following:

Partner site does not have resources where Holding organization is referred to but instead it has resources where member of Holding organization is referred to.

There are two types of requests in this case:

1. Request from representative of Holding organization should be able to see resources which referred to all member organizations
2. Request from member organization should be able to see only resources which referred to this organization.

I am evaluating Ubuntu as the Linux distro of choice for the next release of Lablz Cloud server to replace the aging Fedora 6 AMIs. Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution for desktop, sports a solid server and recently mounted a successful netbook offensive . Distrowatch looks at the top 10 distros and tries to understand what made this late comer to a Linux distro scene so popular so fast?

Since Lablz inception we have preferred Fedora over other Linux distros. It was also a logical choice when Amazon opened EC2 - official AMI images were built on Fedora. Fedora served us really well but we are getting tired of its short support cycle. As each Fedora version is reaching its end of life very quickly we are finding ourselves running around like crazy to find alternative repositories to install extra packages. This is insane and I am sure our customers will be even more conservative than we are in upgrading to new Linux versions. I have been reading up on the subject and the choice boils down to Centos and Ubuntu LTS releases . Before making a move on EC2 I have decided to switch my work completely to Ubuntu and see how it pans out.

I communicate with a lot of people. It is important for me to be properly notified. Had I not found the solutions below I might not have moved from Windows to Ubuntu as my main working environment. I hope the day will come when all communications will happen over the Web. Site Specific Browser (SSB) is the concept that shows the most promise to get us there. Before finding solutions below I reviewed a set of SSB products and attempted to use some of them for a week or so. Unfortunately for all of us in the Web Apps business - the current SSB crop is still way off the mark.

I went to the Microsoft campus (geek central) this week to learn about how they are cumulating their cloud.  The event was sponsored by Rackspace, a hosting company, who offer cloud services through their division called Mosso.  Also on stage were cloud consultants, VCs and some development companies.

This is the application we submitted today to Palm for early access to webOS Mojo SDK.

This article is a stub. More can be said on the subject of how Lablz enables developers to practice Agile Development.

Less than a year ago Lablz has switched from CVS to SVN. A total disaster it was. The productivity loss had been enormous. We have used CVS for years with almost no problems. Whatever problems existed had quick workarounds. All the hype surrounding SVN was total nonsense. SVN in Eclipse does not preserve version history when source is moved or renamed. SVN atomic commit sounds nice, but when SVN itself is barely reliable - it is of little consequence. You have to use command line tool to move/rename in order to preserve old revisions. But wait - you can't. Command line SVN tool changes .svn metadata so that Eclipse SVN client can't read it anymore and vise verse. SVN does not live up to its promise and will probably take several more years to mature - may be more, if ever. But as all our code history is now in SVN - we try to cope with it - for now. What a lock in! Unfortunately we found out when it was too late that migration from CVS to SVN did not go well either - older history for many sources was cut off at an arbitrary date a couple of years back or at an arbitrary number of revisions (some sources had hundreds of revisions). Good thing we have older CVS server and an older Lablz server working directory which we consult about once a month.

Today we allow user to translate any word on page. User switches to the desired language, selects the word (or several) while holding ALT key - and the Translate dialog pops up. This approach is easy and has a major advantage of showing the context within which the translation is made. Context is essential for accurate translation. But it also has a set of major problems:

1. Word boundaries are not shown. Most of the times individual words should be translated separately. But sometimes several words must be translated together, but user has no way of seeing the beginning and the end of the sequence. Only developer searching the source code can find that out now.
   
2. Some words are left untranslated since they are easy to overlook. This leads to many unnecessary interactions with the end users especially in case of legal documents. like invoices or order confirmations.
   
3. It is impossible to obtain the list of things that require translation. If that was possible the translation could be done upfront before the new release is out. This is a norm in other software packages.
4. There is no advance warning to developers that some changes in code or JSP templates exposed untranslated items. Again, this tires the users as Lablz software is evolving rapidly and often new words and their combintations are introduced. Possibly this is not a huge problem as advanced user will now be able to translate themselves - as #1 will no longer be a problem.
   

Here is an idea:

1. Let's compile a list of words or word sequences per-page and provide a UI control which will indicate a number of untranslated items. This control when clicked should present an edit list of Translation resources. May be a language switch control can be used for this task.
   
2. Let's also compile the list of words or word sequences for the whole site. This list can be accumulated since last server start. UI control for this task can be a sub-control of #1.

On big write-ups (Gene's forte) it's especially difficult to see what's changed when an update is made.