Thursday, August 21, 2003

Changed my blog template

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I changed around my blog template, to move the links and archives over to the right side. Perhaps I was inspired by http://www.csszengarden....
Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Microkernel Mash Up at The Server Side

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A thread on TheServerSide ( PicoContainer 1.0 beta 1 has been released. ) has, like all threads on TheServerSide, devolved into a rambling, ...

Tirade against Out-Sourcing

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Sue Spielman has written: Outsourcing in my company? I do not think so. She really sums up a lot of my basic problems with out-sourci...
Friday, August 15, 2003

Another book on Tapestry

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Here's something fun that popped into me mailbox this morning: Dear Howard, We will publish the first german book on Tapestry 3 ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Importance of toString()

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I'm always dissapointed when I use some else's code (open-source or proprietary -- though its worse for proprietary) and the objec...
Tuesday, August 12, 2003

HiveMind Deferred Service Proxies

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I'm really coming to love Javasssist . I've called it a giant hammer searching for nails and I am finding a lot of nails to hit wit...
Monday, August 11, 2003

Default symbols in HiveMind

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There is now an easy way to set "factory default" symbols in HiveMind. There's a new extension point, hivemind.FactoryDefau...
Sunday, August 10, 2003

Light at the end of the tunnel!

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I just uploaded the final appendix for "Tapestry in Action". That means that main writing is complete! Yow! What does that l...
Friday, August 08, 2003

Geronimo Bandwagon

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If you've been reading the mailing lists for Apache's Geronimo, you may have seen me there, plugging HiveMind. To me, it seems like...

Tapestry Elevator Pitch

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"And God said, 'Let There Be Light!' And there was Light. And it was good." But it lacked a clean separation of concerns....

Moving code

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Last night, I tagged HiveMind as 1.0-alpha-1 and created a branch on Tapestry (hlship-3-1). The branch represents the future Tapestry 3.1 c...
Tuesday, August 05, 2003

HiveMind -- progress

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I've been adding more and more to HiveMind in the last couple of days. Yesterday, I added several new translators: extension-point, se...

Maven -- Update

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I still can't get Tapestry to build under Maven but yesterdays "current peave" appears to be innacurate. I don't know w...
Monday, August 04, 2003

Maven -- The Emperor has no clothes

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I still can't believe that the Maven crew is trying to go to a 1.0 release while Maven is clearly in an early alpha stage. For simple, s...
Friday, August 01, 2003

More fun HiveMind stuff

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Getting HiveMind to work with Vista (the WebCT product) is going well. I immediately found that I needed <schema> to support an id an...
Thursday, July 31, 2003

HiveMind going strong

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HiveMind stuff is going strong; just brought the documentation up-to date and continued cleaning up things and simplifying interfaces. ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Whew!

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Humpty dumpty is back together again. I've reformulated/refactored/reinvented HiveMind as discussed in the previous few 'blog entri...

Version Numbering

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Here's an article about how some projects mis-use version numbering: The Fishbowl: Version Numbers and You Tapestry and HiveMind f...
Monday, July 28, 2003

Improving HiveMind naming conventions

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Because I'm working to make HiveMind feel a bit more like Eclispe plugins, I'm beginning to rename things to be more consistent. ...

ApacheCon US 2003

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Per Andrew C. Oliver's suggestion, I've submitted to present a session on Tapestry at ApacheCon US 2003 . It'll be a challenge ...