The last few days have been a bit slow with no real progress on the testbed. I've spoken with Janus, the engineer at DIKU, about how we should proceed and he has provided the missing hardware pieces for what will become testbed.diku.dk. With that out of the way, I hope to begin setting up a small test environment in my office by the end of the week. It will be good to have the system running again; not being able to properly test is not very inspiring.
While wasting my time on the great internet the other night I again stumbled upon Google Web Toolkit. It looks good, quite easy to use, and has a nice framework for testing with both command line support and plugins for both NetBeans and Eclipse. I think it will fit all the needs of the admin interface and help to keep as much as possible of the high-level server code in one language. Though I still need to read more about how the server-side part of the toolkit works, the dream of a future web service module with easy installation and a nice admin interface lives on. It will also be fun to see if the database part can be merged into the web service module so that site specific costumization "plugins" defining new web services will be possible.
[ BTW, I played with Yahoo pipes yesterday and created the "Recent Changes" RSS feed displayed in the right column. It aggregates commit activity from the four DIKU git repositories on repo.or.cz. ]
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