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Having a blog turned out to be quite important. At least one opportunity came via e-mail with a preamble that went like this: “You don’t know me, but I’ve been a reader of your blog for a long time”.

— Job Search 2.0 at Ted Leung on the Air

The gig at SMX came via similar means with the dev manager having been following my blog, and another employee mentioning I was possibly looking around and landed on my doorstep quite out of the blue.

It's been an interesting 5 years at Bulletin with a mixture of interesting, and hair-pulling projects (I'm sure I used to have hair!) and I'm sure the move from filthy SMS spammer to Anti-spammer will be an interesting ride with SMX over the next few years and beyond.

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It's a sweet looking device, and I doubt I'll ever get my hands on one.

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Amusingly, Kai just spoke of illegally recording a Rolling Stones concert and sending it to his friends - must find a recording of this and find the exact quote.

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One of the biggest “de-brandings” in advertising history is to begin Monday when AT&T, now the sole owner of Cingular Wireless, starts changing all Cingular marketing to adopt the AT&T name.

AT&T will not disclose the budget for the campaign, which will continue for five or six months — leading to the partnership with Apple on the new iPhone, scheduled for midyear.

Whilst all that may need to change is the Cingular logo with an AT&T one, I wonder if it'll give Apple a door way to making more changes to the eventual release strategy.

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Along with the new plan I took advantage of the plan-change discount to get a new phone (Nokia 6234) to replace the aging Panasonic X701 which is currently being held together with tape ;p

So far I'm liking the phone, but then I've only had it for 3 hours - although Shozu doesn't want to work (I think I need to change a setting to let java apps use the net) but I'm sure I'll find those settings in time.

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This is a phone for women who are modern, confident and like to show their feminine side...

Someone fetch me a bucket, its time to throw up already.

Soft pink backlighting adds a touch of femininity to the sapphire crystal screen while maintaining the bold styling of its second line of luxury phones.

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A simple "Shell" class reads a spring configuration file, and binds all the beans into a Groovy context, then executes the script.

XmlBeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(new FileInputStream(new File(springFile)));

Binding binding = new Binding();
String[] beans = factory.getBeanDefinitionNames();
for (int i = 0; i < beans.length; i++) {
  String beanName = beans[i];
  binding.setVariable(beanName, factory.getBean(beanName));
}

GroovyShell shell = new GroovyShell(binding);
shell.evaluate(script.toString());

Now, I have a spring XML file lying around for an EJB based application which includes two beans (amongst others): userSearch and sendSMS, these two session beans simply expose the services of the application, given the following wee script:

println "There are ${userSearch.totalUserCount} users in the current system."
println "Sending an SMS message to all admin users..."

userSearch.userAccountSearch(1, 100, "").each {
  if (it.userRole == 1) {
    println "${it.userName} has a phone number of ${it.mobileNo}"
    sendSMS.sendMessage(it.userId,
      "${it.mobileNumber}",
      "Hello ${it.firstName} ${it.lastName} :)",
      "0" )
  }
}

It's a simple script, taking advantage of Groovy's dynamic nature and blocks, Spring's injection of fully configured beans, and the services provided by those beans.

All this is run from a small shell script, which sets up the required classpath, and kicks in the Shell class.

The next step is to get the shell loading the script from STDIN so I can then start writing scripts like:

#!/bin/bmshell

Several benefits I can already see with this is that it highlights areas of the exposed API that somewhat suck and could be improved, and also allows you to easily run adhoc code against a managed system. It's no where near the same as opening a new workspace in Smalltalk and running adhoc code against the live system, but it's getting pretty close.

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One thing that strike me is the reference to them being "rubbish", is this just an admission that the film quality of mobile handsets is "rubbish", or that they expect all the entries to be rubbish?

All the films and tv adverts appear to be available on the website, however I don't currently have QuickTime installed to view them :(

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A quick look around the googlescape doesn't show me any existing frameworks for developing component services ( JEP-0114 ) so I may have to look into writing this first, probably wrapping JSO. Before I do that however I need to work out just what I need for my integration in the first place, and work out the best way to implement and deploy it.

If anyone out there on Planet Jabber know of any lightweight JEP-0114 containers/wrappers in Java - sing out...

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