Friday, October 24, 2003

Composition Trumps Inheritance

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Just a random thought ... composition is more powerful than inheritance because, using composition, you always work in terms of a single, ou...

Working for the competition?

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Just noticed a new open-source MVC web framework, Jucas . Interestingly, its built on top of ... HiveMind .

Last day at WebCT

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I'm finishing up my last day at WebCT. I start, as a sub-contractor, at NLG on monday(!). No rest for the weary. It's awkward and a...

Definition of Service Oriented Architecture?

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Looking around online, most of the definitions of SOA that I find are inextricably tied to language neutrality and remoteability. Under thos...
Thursday, October 23, 2003

Services vs. Configurations

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One stumbling block with HiveMind which keeps coming up in various conversations is a pattern like this: I want to define my foos in a ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2003

HiveMind Presentation report

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So, last night was the HiveMind presentation. It went rather well on the whole; people seemed interested and stayed for the whole (long) Q...
Friday, October 10, 2003

HiveMind presentation at WebTech Users Group

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I'll be giving a presentation about HiveMind at the Boston-area WebTech user's group on Tuesday, Oct. 21st. Meeting starts a 7pm a...
Monday, October 06, 2003

Thinking about coding

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Do you think about coding? A lot? I do. My own personal style has shifted a bit recently; I've adopted a few minor tricks, like na...
Friday, October 03, 2003

ThreadLocal and thread pooling

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Anthony Eden's post, ThreadLocal and thread pooling , illustrates one of my HiveMind goals. His post was about the importance of cleari...
Thursday, October 02, 2003

Tapestry in Action

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Manning has started to market my book on Tapestry, "Tapestry in Action". This is great stuff.

A glorious new world of opportunity!

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Today. Is. The. Day. After months and months of thinking about it, even agonizing about it, today is the day that I resigned from WebC...
Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Adding some lifecycle support to HiveMind

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Just checked in some changes to support some basic lifecycle on a HiveMind registry and its services and configurations. There is now a...
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...