Friday, September 28, 2007

One of the greatest Worse-Than-Failures, ever ...

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Serializalicious, now on WTF is just one example Steve, Ben and I discovered in this application. The article is somewhat misleading, it m...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Let there be Nightly Docs!

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With just a little bit of tweaking, we now have full, nightly documentation for Tapestry 5. This is great news, as the public web site ca...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Dr. Seuss visits the Tapestry Mailing List

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Just noticed this posting by Bill Holloway: Will you work with JSP? They mess up my MVC. I will not work with JSP. We'll put them i...
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Tapestry 5 Nightly Builds

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I've finally gotten around to setting up nightly builds for Tapestry 5. It just another build on the Bamboo server. You can get acces...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

Mac OS X bundles vs. Subversion

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If you work on Mac OS X, you may have noticed how cool Macs deal with complex documents, things like Keynote presentations or applications ...
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Saturday, September 08, 2007

Itch scratching: Even better feedback for all thumbs typists

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I was reading through Matt's rundown of Struts 2 (does it suck?) and he strayed into one of my most passionate areas: feedback . He g...
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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Biled!

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Well, Hani has finally Biled the Bearded One . But what a cheap and meaningless shot ... he's upset about a switch from commons-loggin...
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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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