Friday, August 31, 2007

The Blindness of James Gosling: Java as A First Language

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I think Java is an excellent all-around-language. It is truly ubiqitous, well specified, highly performant and well accepted by the indust...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Handling direct URLs in Tapestry 5

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So, I'm starting work on the 1% web portion of my otherwise 99% Swing project. It's about sending invoices by email and allowing e...
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Sunday, August 26, 2007

So long, commons-logging, hello SLF4J

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I'm finally taking a bit to do something I've wanted to do for a long time: get away from commons-logging and switch over to SLF4J...
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Friday, August 24, 2007

Maven: Love to Hate or Hate to Love?

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I've been struggling hard with Maven this week, and its really be bringing me down. I love the theory of Maven, but the execution is s...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Quick and dirty Java application launcher

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I've been busy working at a new company, for a new client, helping out on an existing product. The product is a Swing application and...
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Named mocks in EasyMock 2.3

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This is a great new feature of EasyMock 2.3 : you can name your mocks as you create them. This is wonderful news, I can't wait to try...
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Friday, July 27, 2007

Tapestry 5 Preview at OSCON 2007

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Yesterday was my session at OSCON. 45 minutes to covert Tapestry 5? Not a hope, especially with Rod Johnson running a little long. I ...
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Saturday, June 30, 2007

Upgrading Maven 2.0.5 to 2.0.7

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I've been using Maven a bit for my "day job", converting a multi-module Ant build over to Maven. Since I just pushed out Tap...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Talking in Boulder and Denver

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I'm doing back-to-back JUG talks next week: Jun 13: Denver JUG Jun 14: Boulder JUG I'll be doing the same talk, a compressed...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Free and Excellent Code Coverage for Eclipse

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The EMMA plugin for Eclipse is my latest addition to the "can't live without it" category. It allows you to run applicatio...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Tapestry at JavaOne 2007

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JavaOne was a lot of fun this year; I didn't arrive in time for the JavaFX keynote, but I understood it to be underwhelming. Yep ... t...
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Saturday, May 05, 2007

Tapestry at JavaOne

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Not only am I doing my Tapestry 5 "BOF" session (Tapestry 5: Java Programming Language Power, Scripting Ease), but there's als...
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Thursday, May 03, 2007

Launching IntelliJ for the first time...

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First the damn cool crowd of NFJS speakers got me to buy a Mac, now they've suckered me into switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ. God h...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Duh! Annotation values as constants, not literals

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One funny thing I discovered recently is that annotation values don't have to be literal values. You can reference constants. Thus I ...
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Pleasing the Crowds, Improving IoC, Extending the Community

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I've been quite busy of late: a nearby Tapestry 4 project to pay the bills, a bunch of chances to talk to crowds about Tapestry 5 (in ...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007

Ouch! VMWare Fusion is not compatible with VMWare Player

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Turns out that VMWare Fusion, the VMWare for Mac OS X, creates an image that isn't compatible with the VMWare player on Windows. This ...
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Tapestry 5 at JavaOne and OSCON

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My session at JavaOne has been scheduled: BOF-6563: Tapestry 5: Java Programming Language Power, Scripting Ease Esplanade 307-310 May 9...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

More Servlet Spec Wish-List Ideas

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I'm thinking back to an earlier post about Servlet Spec 2.5 and what's missing. Here's a few more ideas, based on implementi...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Tapestry 5 IoC from a Guice Perspective

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So Guice has a few good ideas, and with Tapestry 5 still in a fluid state, I've absorbed a few of them into Tapestry 5 IoC. At the cor...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Ruby script for creating new Tapestry 5 projects

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One thing with building lots of demos for upcoming presentations, labs, & etc. is that I'm having to use mvn archetype:create a lo...
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