02-16-2010

Snow day today.  Working from home.  Started looking at the FiServ-BankSphere integration work that Alfonso De Lucas discussed with Ben.  Interesting problem with the Spring Web project.  Its primary focus is to shorten URLs.  You want the same alias to be generated for the same URL -- much like a hash function you want the same output to be generated from the same input.  How can I do that with a URL and limit the alias to 5 characters?  I could use the URL's hashcode value as a lookup into a table that contains the alias.  Simple.  I like it.  Got the full spike working, including the redirect.  Need to clean up one of the JSPs because it is real ugly.  As a diversion, I'm gonna set up an Eclipse/Roo environment.