Saturday, August 30, 2003

HiveMind EJBProxy is back

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Just got the latest Javassist JAR from Shigeru Chiba and he's fixed the problem related to try ... catch that was breaking the EJBProxy...

Pull the fork back out?

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So now the "Tapestry in Action" goes into production; a complicated process of copy editting, typesetting and marketing. One part ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Performance of different HiveMind service models

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Thought I'd do a little comparison of how the different HiveMind service models perform (relative to each other). First of all, I found...
Monday, August 25, 2003

Stick a fork in it!

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Tapestry in Action is complete, uploaded and ready to go. Well, not quite, tomorrow when I'm not quite so bleary eyed, I'm going to...
Saturday, August 23, 2003

Home Stretch on the Book

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I'm on the home stretch now for "Tapestry in Action". Manning wants the final version by the end of this month (Aug 2003) ......
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...