Wednesday, July 27, 2011

GroovyCasts

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If you are a fan of Groovy, or even just curious what the fuss is about, there's a new resource for you: Groovy Casts . Groovy Casts is...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Thanks Luke Daley!

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Just wanted to reach out and thank Luke Daley , who just joined Gradleware , for giving me a big help with my Gradle build issues. We had a ...
Friday, June 03, 2011

What's Next? Paris Clojure Slides

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Here's my slides from the What's Next? conference in Paris . I found a couple of minor errors on review, and I'm expecting to re...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Tragedy Of Checked Exceptions

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If you ever get one of those interview questions along the lines of "What DON'T you like about Java?" , I would hope that che...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Learn more about Tapestry power features @ Java Magic

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New Tapestry user "tawus" has been working his way though the power features of Tapestry and Tapestry IoC on his blog: Java Magic...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Extending JavaDoc

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I don't think I've seen a piece of code more poorly designed for extension, and more in need of it, than JavaDoc. I'm in the p...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011

An Example Of Why I Like Spock

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Spock is really making writing tests fun, instead of a chore. @Unroll("toClass '#javaName' should be #expectedClass...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Combining Gradle with Antlr3

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I've been going through a relatively painless process of converting Tapestry from Maven to Gradle , and am thrilled with the results. My...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Better Namespacing in JavaScript

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In my previous post , I discussed some upcoming changes in Tapestry's client-side JavaScript. Here we're going to dive a little deep...
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Rethinking JavaScript in Tapestry 5.3

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I've always had a love/hate relationship with JavaScript; some of the earliest motivations for Tapestry was to "encapsulate that ...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Hibernate w/ transient objects

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Am I missing something with Hibernate, or is it pretty darn hard to mix the following: Session-per-request processing (the approach provid...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

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I recently stumbled across a blog post by Kalle Korhonen: Why Tapestry? . Kalle has been very busy with Tapestry as the force behind Tynamo ...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Is it time to switch back to IntelliJ?

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I've been trying to stick with Eclipse now for a while. I switched from IntelliJ 8 to Eclipse because IntelliJ stopped working for Tape...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Announcing Tapestry 5.2

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I'm very proud to announce that the next major release of Tapestry, release 5.2, is now available as Tapestry version 5.2.4 . This is...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Starting and Stopping Jetty Gracefully with Groovy and JMX

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I'm working on a project that uses Tapestry and ActiveMQ together; it works great on my Mac, but on my client's Windows workstation...
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Thursday, November 04, 2010

First Rule of LinkedIn: Customize the Message

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As far as social networks go, I like LinkedIn a lot. Nice site, lots of features, generally quite useful. In fact, I like it enough to be c...
Monday, November 01, 2010

Tapestry 5.2.2

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... and the latest version of Tapestry, 5.2.2, is now available. This is the second beta release for Tapestry 5.2, addressing a few bugs in...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Gradle is Great

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My initial experience with Gradle is very positive. I've been quickly able to convert over my Maven POMs to Gradle build files, which ...
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Google Analytics vs. localhost

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Are you using Google Analytics and trying to test it on your pages? Does it appear to do absolutely nothing? After a lot of playing aro...
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Monday, October 04, 2010

Back in London at SkillsMatter

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I'm back in London for another Tapestry training workshop; I can't wait to see how well the revisions and extensions are going to w...