Thursday, February 28, 2008

No Fluff Just Stuff / Danvers, MA

›
I'll be kicking off my participation in the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium series this year on Sunday April 6th. I'll be talking ab...
1 comment:
Monday, February 25, 2008

Tapestry 5 Index Pages

›
I've been rapidly closing the gap between where Tapestry 5 is and where it needs to be for a stable release. Today I added in index p...
13 comments:
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Secure applications in Tapestry 5

›
Tapestry 5 features continue to come together rapidly; the latest is HTTPS support. It's very simple: mark a page as secure ... @Se...
8 comments:
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Unit Testing: Crisis of Faith

›
I'm hitting a bit of a quandary with response to testing: I'm losing some faith in unit testing, or at least busywork unit testing ...
16 comments:
Monday, February 18, 2008

Prototype and custom events

›
I've been doing a lot of work using Prototype for the Ajax support in Tapestry 5. I use Prototype because it is generally easy to use...
12 comments:
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Civility

›
Well over a year ago, I had to start moderating comments on this blog, due to a couple of (or more likely, a single) pathetic individual(s...
6 comments:
Monday, February 11, 2008

Short review of "Tapestry 5 - Building Web Applications"

›
The Develop in Java web site has a short review of Alexandar's book . They liked it: I liked this book and found the writing style t...
2 comments:
Friday, February 01, 2008

Another thing I love about IntelliJ

›
I've been mentally compiling a few tiny rough edges in IntelliJ. The difference between IntelliJ and Eclipse is that I can use Intelli...
8 comments:
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Tapestry mentioned in ComputerWeekly

›
My friend Todd pointed me to this mention of Tapestry in ComputerWeekly under the heading "Hot Skills: MVC". The same article c...
1 comment:
Monday, January 28, 2008

Maven: Won't Get Fooled Again

›
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I'm not going to get fooled by Maven again. I can't express how much gr...
88 comments:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Tapestry Code Quality

›
According to Enerjy , Tapestry comes in at about the top of the list for open source projects they've scanned. I suspect that T5 is qui...
3 comments:
Monday, January 14, 2008

Latest batch of features

›
I've been very busy on Tapestry 5 now, sprinting towards an end goal of a stable release. I'm very psyched about the latest stuff:...
4 comments:
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Creating new T5 projects the easy way

›
The Maven archetype for Tapestry projects is really useful for getting up and running quickly. However, that's not what I use day-to...
1 comment:
Sunday, November 25, 2007

First Tapestry 5 Book

›
The first book on Tapestry 5, Tapestry 5: Building Web Applications , is available for pre-order. I've been helping out by tech editing...
7 comments:
Saturday, November 24, 2007

Working on T5 Ajax Support

›
This is stuff people have waited impatiently for going on six months or more, and it's starting to come together. I'm continuing to...
5 comments:
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

IntelliJ Watch: Change Sets

›
I've started using IntelliJ change sets, another great feature. A change set is very intuitive: a set of related changes. Typically ...
12 comments:
Saturday, November 17, 2007

Another IntelliJ Zealot

›
Wow that was quick. My first attempt with IntelliJ didn't really take, but I've had more time now to make the adjustment under le...
11 comments:
Monday, November 12, 2007

A Leopard Upgrade Story

›
I haven't been having the easiest time with my Leopard upgrade. After my first attempt to upgrade, I got the dreaded "blue scree...
10 comments:
Friday, November 09, 2007

SVNServe on Mac OS X

›
Somewhere along the way in switching from Fink to MacPorts (ostensibly because MacPorts is better supported) I shutdown my local SVN serv...
4 comments:
Thursday, October 25, 2007

A few new Tapestry 5 components

›
Sven Homburg is hosting a Tapestry 5 components site on Google code . Interestingly, it requires Tapestry 5.0.6 which is only available to...