Friday, September 19, 2003

Excellent discourse on WebObjects and Tapestry

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Drew Davidson, (co-?)creator of OGNL , recently posted this message about WebObjects to the Tapestry user mailing list: I went to WWDC ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Components Vs. MDA? (vs. J2EE)

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Been reading some of the blog by Rickard on Model Driven Architecture and the resulting maelstrom at TheServerSide . I have a pretty...
Monday, September 15, 2003

Presenting at ApacheCon

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I'll be presenting an all-too-short Tapestry session at ApacheCon on Nov 17th at 11am. I have 60 minutes to talk Tapestry and handle Q...
Friday, September 12, 2003

HiveMind call for participation

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HiveMind is, I believe, ready to go! The last few days have been spent refining the framework in a number of small ways. Essl Christian has...

Sometimes testing numbers just don't make sense

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Based on what I did yesterday, I thought I'd see if I could improve the efficiency of the LoggingInterceptor by directly invoking method...
Thursday, September 11, 2003

Improved HiveMind efficiency

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I was thinking about interceptors in the shower this morning (best place to do serious thinking) and was also thiking about the performance ...
Tuesday, September 09, 2003

More substantial docs on HiveMind

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I've added several new documentation items to the HiveMind site. One describes how to "bootstrap" registry ... exactly what c...
Friday, September 05, 2003

HiveMind --- now with downloads

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I hacked together some stuff to allow downloads (binary and source) of HiveMind. It's out of my home page at jakarta.apache.org. There...
Wednesday, September 03, 2003

"Tapestry in Action" cover

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I got goosebumps! Manning has decided on the cover illustration and here's what the book will look like: With luck, the first...

"Tapestry in Action" will be MEAP

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Got some confirmation that the book will be available as incremental, online PDFs prior to dead-tree format. Not sure at this time what the...
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...