Friday, December 26, 2008

Exception Reporting: The Why

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When things go wrong in a complicated system, I have one question: why? First off: if you are building in Java you are building a compli...
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Off topic: You Aint Got No Pancake Mix!

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I have a new hero: Taking on intolerance (religious or otherwise) with humor is a great tactic.
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Friday, December 12, 2008

Tapestry 5.0 Final Release - 5.0.18

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After nearly three years of development, the final release of Apache Tapestry 5.0 is now available for download. Apache Tapestry 5 is a to...
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Clojure: The Hundred Year Language

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Back in 2003, Paul Graham gave a keynote speech entitled " The Hundred Year Language " (he later expanded this for his book "...
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Monday, December 08, 2008

What's on the doorstep?

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I haven't even quite moved into my new house, but what was waiting for me on the porch? Programming in Scala . Of course, I seem to be...
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Sunday, December 07, 2008

ANTLR and code generation

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In between packing (I'm moving across town) I'm doing a bit of work for Tapestry 5.1, TAP5-79: Improve Tapestry's property expr...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

Goodbye Vienna, Hello NetNewsWire

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Seems like the Mac has a huge number of RSS readers. For a while I was using Vienna, but it stopped working after a recent update (no blogs ...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

Maven: Displaying the version number in the generated site

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It took a lot of ferreting out, but I eventually learned that you can put a <version/> tag in your site.xml, and Maven will put the p...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Ready for 5.0.17?

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Looks like 5.0.16 will not be the final release, there will be a very modest 5.0.l7 that addresses a couple of annoyances that didn't ha...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Tapestry 5.0.16 (Release Candidate) it OUT!

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The latest release of Tapestry, Tapestry 5.0.16 (Release Candidate), is now available. Tapestry 5.0.16 is the release candidate; we encour...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Clojure Baby Steps

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Getting some baby steps going with Clojure. What threw me for a while is how difficult it was to get to do some basic output. I wanted to...
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Tapestry 5 Ajax Screencast

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This is a follow on to my previous JSF comparison ; Jim Discoll produced a Simple Ajax JSF example , and this screencast is the Tapestry 5 e...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Getting started with Clojure

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Whenever I finish a major piece of work (Tapestry 5.0.16, in this case), I like to try learning some new things before I start the next ma...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Tapestry 5.0.16 (Release Candidate) is under vote

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Tapestry 5.0.16 is being voted upon for release as the RC (Release Candidate). The vote will run for a few days, then we'll make it pub...
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Sunday, November 02, 2008

"Simple" JSF 2.0 Component vs. Tapestry

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I just saw an amusing example of JSF 2.0 on Jim Driscoll's blog. He's creating a simple output-only component to display some text...
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Friday, October 31, 2008

Pushing towards 5.0.16

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I've been steaming along towards the Tapestry 5.0.16 release. I've hit nearly all the major bugs and have also been implementing a...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

An afternoon off from Tapestry

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One thing about being an open source developer is that the concept of "time off" becomes somewhat vague. Working on stupid bugs ...
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Friday, October 17, 2008

Comic: Coding Appreciation

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From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Of course, since I work at home, I can live this out every single day .
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Monday, October 13, 2008

Back from Europe

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Just got back from Europe on Friday, and have been recovering from a nasty cold and jet lag. This week I'm prepping for another Tapestr...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Tapestry 5.0.15 released

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Tapestry version 5.0.15 has been released. The good news is that this is the final beta . The bad news is that it was supposed to be the r...
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