Saturday, January 31, 2009

Using Maven to create a new Tapestry 5.1 project

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I've been digging deep into the (revised) Maven archetype plugin: the tool used to generate new projects from a template. The existing ...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

A tip for TestNG: Keep the Constructor Simple

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TestNG does not do a great job of reporting exceptions when instantiating your test classes. Keep the content simple. If you are going to ...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Using a Samsung ML-1450 with Airport Extreme

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I just upgraded my router to an Airport Extreme, partially just to allow Suzy to use the printer even when I don't have my laptop hooked...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The Tapestry Roadshow at The Great Indian Developer Summit (April 22 - 25, 2009)

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I'll be presenting three sessions at the Great Indian Developer Summit in Bangalore, India this coming April. The sessions are on Clo...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

Comparing Prototype and jQuery

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Glenn Vanderburg has written a careful treatise on why he prefers Prototype to jQuery . The thing about Glenn is that he doesn't write...
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Upcoming features for Tapestry 5.1

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I've been working on some new features for Tapestry 5.1. Importantly, I've been trying to get my head around Spring Web Flow and ...
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Monday, January 05, 2009

Rapid Turnaround in Tapestry 5

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Borut Bolčina has a screencast demonstrating live class reloading in Tapestry 5 . And he's doing it with Jetty, in Windows ... so he in...
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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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