Friday, February 27, 2009

1970's (and 80's) Genre TV Panorama

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NOW IN COLOR Sci-Fi Heroes by * dusty-abell on deviant ART Wow! I mean, this has got shows that had a viewership of, like, three. Th...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Running IDEA 8.1.1

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I've switched to IDEA 8.1.1 (i.e. build 9742) and it's working very nicely. It has plugins available for Clojure and GIT , which i...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

The Importance of Back Ups

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I had seen most of this commercial last year, while on the road, and hazy from jet lag. At the time I wasn't sure I hadn't dreame...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Ruby script to rebuild Eclipse .classpath

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I'm in the process of rebuilding my Tapestry training workshop to use Eclipse instead of IDEA. One part of this is that I use the Mave...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Java.Blogs Death Watch

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We're now into day three and counting of the Java.Blogs Death Watch . The site has stopped updating (since the 16th) and nobody seems t...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Speeding up Tapestry 5.1

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I've very excited about some big changes coming in Tapestry 5.1: A significant increase in performance. This may come as a surprise ...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

IDEA 8.1 on Mac

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Installed it, launched it. Immediately: Jetty Integration is not compatible and disabled. Strike one. Sure, it has GIT integration and ...
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

A Better Web Framework: Tapestry's Response

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Last month, Ibrahim Levent published a detailed posting about the capabilities of a better web framework on his blog. I'd thought I...
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Clojure at TheServerSide Symposium

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I'll be presenting a lightning fast overview of Clojure at this year's TheServerSide symposium. I'm speaking at 3:50pm on We...
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Monday, February 02, 2009

Obama Icon Me

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Tapestry 5 Refcard

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DZone has just published a Tapestry 5 Refcard , authored by yours truly. It was a great challenge fitting even a representative sample of al...
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Sunday, February 01, 2009

Did I mention that RealPlayer is evil?

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So for the last few months, my wife has been having constant trouble with her MacBook, specifically, wireless connectivity. Our wireless net...
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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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