Archives for Kate Ellingburg

We here in Internal Systems have started work on a fairly typical-for-us project: we're rewriting the application that sends data from our ordering system (HAMS) to our financial system (Netsuite). FISC, the new application, will provide a REST-based interface which HAMS will call upon invoice payment. It's not a technically difficult or even a large application, but because it deals with financial information it's very, very important to get right. Developing our New Application We didn't quite

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One of the cool things about working for Internal Systems is the opportunity to work on new systems. My most recent project is the development of my ShipIt VII project into a fully-fledged application. Where my ShipIt VII project was a standard Java web application, I'm doing the real version using Grails with Acegi. However, I have to use our existing Crowd instance, to leverage its user base and its single sign-on capabilities. While there's some good documentation out there about the individual

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Collaboration is not a dirty word

I've been at Atlassian for a month now, and it's time to admit that I never really got the whole wiki thing. (This is something I'm glad I didn't have to own up to during my interviews.) Until now. Before starting with Atlassian, I thought that Wikipedia was the only real world wiki. But apparently, Wikipedia is not the real world. I thought collaboration was something I was across — I was one of the more prolific users of the Sharepoint site at my old job. My family use a Drupal site to blog,

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