About us

This is the personal site of Perry Nguyen and Ngoc Han.

All opinions and views are our own and not endorsed or supported by our respective employers, if any.

About this site

In an effort to find software to suit our needs in blogging and a web photo album we have decided to develop our own solution. Several goals include ease of use, seamless integration, and valid XHTML output.

To achieve our goals, we utilize the following software and technologies:

Java

Because it's portable and lends itself well to elegant design.

Tomcat

A Servlet 2.4 compliant container.

PostgreSQL & TSearch2

The best RDBMS on a budget plus free-text search

SpringFramework

Excellent IoC/Dependency Injection library, among other things

OGNL

Object graph navigation used in our Web MVC design

iBATIS SQL Maps

Instead of a full ORM, we use this SQL mapping tool.

MarkdownJ

Java port of Markdown, a readable text markup tool.

Cougaar's SecureJNDIRealm

LDAPS support for Tomcat's JNDIRealm

XML & XSLT

For static content, use XML to easily create content

JAI

Performs watermarking and image rotation.

drewnoakes EXIF extraction

Automatically determine JPEG orientation

incava java-diff

Diffing algorithm used to compare journal entry revisions

Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient & Codec

For the JNLP app (HanHuy Journal/Album Manager) to invoke Web Services located on our server

Silk Icons from famfamfam.com

They're free, they're plentiful, and they're pretty!

To reduce comment, pingback and/or trackback spam, we moderate all feedback postings. The moderated postings will still be available for public view, but will not be accessible or indexable by search engine spiders. This should eliminate the profitability of spamming.

The progress of development is tracked on our local svn trac installation.