FaxIt Gadget
We’re proud to announce the launch of our Google Gadget which allows users to catch a free glimpse of
FaxIt Nice. This iGoogle Gadget permits sending up to 2 free faxes within the USA. Feel free to forward this to one and all.
Our wiki now has all details of the FaxIt Nice Architecture as well as the XML-RPC API. Read the wiki here.
Developer accounts are just a click away, email support(at)350nice.com to get setup and running today.
Sample code is also on the way from Faxtastic, our own C# desktop fax solution
We’re proud to announce the launch of our Google Gadget which allows users to catch a free glimpse of
FaxIt Nice. This iGoogle Gadget permits sending up to 2 free faxes within the USA. Feel free to forward this to one and all.
The Java programming language has, within the last 10 years, become the de facto standard for developing portable applications, and interactive dynamic content for websites.
FaxIt Nice’s document conversion system has been supported on the back end by OpenOffice.org since the very first day we went into business. “OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project.” We received major help in this integration in our first release from Caolan Mc Namara, one of the developers of OpenOffice, for which we are truly thankful.
This time round, in FaxIt Nice 3.0 we streamlined our integration a little more thanks to a component named JODConverter, provided by “Art of Solving” a software house / IT consultancy firm run by Mirko Nasato in London, U.K.
Welcome to the long awaited release of FaxIt Nice 3.0. this one was a while in the making. We’ve moved to a different platform in order to serve you faster in terms of everyday activity and feature turnaround time.

I’ve started writing the initial deployment plan for FaxIt Nice 3.0. The webapp deployment itself should be pretty straightforward. We’ve already done it a million times on our staging server. Where things get complicated is making sure the distributed filesystem, FaxIt By Email, XML-RPC interface and DNS transfer to the new hosts all play nicely together in the new environment.
Right off the bat this SAN will host data files for FaxIt Nice. Possible expansion in the future may include e-mail and mysql storage but thats not a priority for now. Also because FaxIt Nice is a distributed application the filesystem will also need to support multiple initiators on each LUN. This immediately brings to mind Redhat Global Filesystem (GFS)
Our most likely OS will be Cent OS 5, as that is what i have decided to migrate to for all our servers in the future.
I’ve moved the FaxIt Nice category from my own blog to here. It makes more sense to have this stuff in a blog dedicated to 350 Nice activity rather than on my own personal space.
Update 1/24/2008 4:22pm
Dear Members,
The distribution problem has been fixed, all corrupted faxes have been resent and the original charges to your account have been voided. We hope you had a productive day despite this upset.
Sincerely,
Declan Shanaghy
350 Nice Inc
With the small development team we have here in 350 Nice I always pretty much dismissed the advantages of running a continuous integration (CI) server. But every now and then a build does break, and it does affect people. This weekend i explored the magical world of CI. And i only scratched the surface i know that much.