Sunday, November 22, 2009

Fun and Jet Lag at Devoxx 2009

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Last week was a bit of a blur, a mix of severe jet lag, a bit of over-indulgence at the speaker's dinner, and the thrill of presenting ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009

Next Steps for Tapestry

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I've been consciously letting Tapestry 5.1 sit and stabilize for a while ... a time that's stretched a few months longer than I init...
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Progress on Cascade

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Meanwhile, in spare minutes (and during sessions at ApacheCon), I've been continuing to work on Cascade . It's been a great learni...
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Rethinking Tapestry's approach to JavaScript

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I've been doing a lot of work for a client using the ExtJS library and that, combined with many other things I've been looking at,...
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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Tapestry 5: Java Power, Scripting Ease (ApacheCon 2009)

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I've uploaded my presentation from ApacheCon 2009. Of coure, the fun parts are the embedded screen casts, and you need to see me live to...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Maven: Throwing out the bath water, keeping the baby

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... in other words, a first step towards using Maven for dependency management but NOT builds. That's the irony of Maven ... they'...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Brew up a Rich Web Application with Cappuccino

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Last night I gave a fun talk on the Cappuccino framework to a handful of Portland JavaScript Admirers. Brew up a Rich Web Application with C...
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Sunday, October 04, 2009

Cascade Exception Reporting

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I've been taking a little time from my billable projects to continue working on Cascade . One feature that's very important to me is...
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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Tapestry 5.1 and IE 8 -- Customizing Tapestry

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Tapestry is nice enough to bundle the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries its client-side support is wired against, which is very conven...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Off topic: Quizissippi

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For those of you in the Portland, OR area ... mark your calendars for Wednesday evenings at the Mississippi Pizza Pub for Quizissippi, host...

Joys of cross-browser development

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I'm working on a dependent drop-down list inside my Tapestry application (one I'm building for a client). Guess what? They fire t...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Devoxx 2009: Tapestry and Clojure

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Coming up in November ... I'll be at the Devoxx 2009 conference in Antwerp, Belgium. I'll be presenting two 60 minute talks: one...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

No Fluff Just Stuff Seattle Roundup

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It was a huge pleasure to be speaking at a No Fluff Just Stuff conference again, it's been much too long. This was a good show with a lo...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Speaking at ApacheCon 2009

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Just a reminder ... I'll be spreading the good word about Tapestry at ApacheCon this year. My session is Tapestry 5: Java Power, Scri...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Tapestry Performance Benchmark (vs. Wicket, JSF, etc.)

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Peter Thomas has created a detailed performance analysis of Wicket, Tapestry, Grails and Seam . It's an interesting read from non-Tapest...
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Like Tapestry? Read German? There's a book for you!

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Igor Drobiazko has just announced his new book, Die Entwicklung von Webanwendungen mit Leichtigkeit! (The development of web applicatio...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Formos in the news

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I may no longer work at Formos, but I'm still pleased to see a nice writeup about Formos and StreamBank . StreamBank is an application ...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Keeping track of Clojure dependencies

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I've been coding more of Cascade and I'm tending to do lots of small namespaces. I'm concerned about circular dependencies, so...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Return to Independent Consulting

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I'd like to announce to the Tapestry community that I've returned to independent consulting. As an independent consultant, I'll...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Article: Meta-Programming Java

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In the last couple of years, if you mention the term meta-programming , people's ears perk up ... and they start looking around for Rub...
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