Thursday, December 31, 2009

Clojure 1.1 is out ... plus videos about new features

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So, Clojure 1.1 is now available, with lots of cool new features, including transients, pre & post conditions, futures, promises and a ...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Securing Tapestry pages with Annotations, Part 1

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Everyone wants all sorts of integrations for Tapestry with other frameworks, but sometimes rolling your own is actually easier. Let's st...
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Monday, December 14, 2009

Upcoming Public Training: London and Paris

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This is a big announcement ... something I've been working on pretty much since I left Formos. I've partnered up with SkillsMatte...
Friday, December 04, 2009

Devoxx Videos up at Parleys.com

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My sessions for this year's Devoxx are available from Parleys.com: Tapestry and Clojure . You can watch the first two minutes for fre...

Change of pace: Arduino

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As a total change of pace, I've been playing around with actual hardware , in the form of an Arduino board. This is a hoot, an actual c...
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Thursday, December 03, 2009

Tapestry and Kaptcha

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Another bit of interesting work I did, for another client, was to implement a CAPTCHA system. I chose the library Kaptcha and built servic...
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TestNG and Selenium

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I love working on client projects, because those help me really understand how Tapestry gets used, and the problems people are running in t...
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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...