Nine Two Eleven

What can you accomplish in ten hours a week? What if you tried to find out? That is my plan. I want to see how long it takes me to launch a new web site working on it from 9:00 - 11:00pm five nights a week. Here is my expected schedule:

• 9 -5 work to pay the bills
• 5 - 9 enjoy my family
• 9 - 11 do something different

It is highly likely I won't actually work at doing something different as often as I plan but I need to start somewhere so that is what I'll start with.

I have been trying to come up with something to work on and so far the favorite idea is a fairly simple web site. Two items will be displayed and one can be voted for to determine the winner each day. The day's winner will be sent out via Twitter and can be viewed on the site. Simple.

Supply List

Data store to hold the items and the votes

Ability to track who voted

Scheduled process to calculate the winner

Some kind of broadcast

I will try and explain the decisions I make when selecting tools to use in the project. So far I am leaning toward being a SpringSource fanboy and developing a Grails application for Cloud Foundry using STS. Follow along and see if I change my mind.

Adding a User Property to Oracle WebCenter Interaction

Recently I had to create a portal security group for director level and above employees. Our HR system feeds Active Directory a field containing each persons grade. Based on the grade it is possible to determine which users should be included in the security group. All I needed to do was add a property for grade to the user profile, populate it, and create a group with dynamic memberships based on the contents of the new property.

Blogger Buzz: New Transparent Navbar Styles

I just started using a new Blogger feature and it looks great.
Blogger Buzz: New Transparent Navbar Styles
If you can't tell the difference it is because this blog looks good with the default navbar at the top. However, the new light transparent style really looks good over at Social Media at Work.