Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Review: Gradle Class with Luke Daley

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Last week, Luke Daly arrived in Portland to teach a three day Gradle class; the folks at Gradleware were nice enough let me audit the class...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Hackergarten in PDX - Friday January 20th

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Merlyn Albery-Speyer is organizing a Hackergarten while Luke Daley (creator of Geb , and Gradle committer) is in town to run an in-depth...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Adding "Ajax Throbbers" to Zone updates

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A common desire in Tapestry is for Zone updates to automatically include a throbber (or "spinner") displayed while the Ajax update...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Dissecting a Tapestry Operation Trace

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I'm helping out a client who is having a problem using Spock and Tapestry 5.3 together. The Spock/Tapestry integration was created for...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Mac Tips: Preventing Aperture from Launching

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Since I tend to connect and disconnect my Android phone to my Mac pretty often, I got frustrated that it kept launching Aperture every time ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Gradle Training in Portland

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It's no mystery that I'm a big Gradle fan ... it's by far the best build tool I've even seen. Build scripts are concise and...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Some Tapestry Stories

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A ways back, I published a call for anyone interested in free Tapestry 5 Laptop stickers (that call is still open!). You get the stickers, ...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Tapestry 5.3 Maven Archetype

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After struggling most of yesterday day, I finally have the Maven archetype working. Use the command: mvn archetype:generate -Darchetyp...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Things You Didn't Know About Tapestry 5.3

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I missed the JavaOne Comparing Web Frameworks talk and was appalled at some out-of-date information in it ... though reviewing his slides, ...
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Monday, October 03, 2011

Tapestry: Feedback!

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I often say that the three cornerstones of Tapestry are Simplicity , Consistency , Efficiency , and Feedback . Although all four of these co...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Changes to Cascade, and a cautionary tale about defrecord

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Since I've been talking more about Clojure lately, I've spent a little more time working on Cascade . I've been stripping out ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Tapestry 5 Laptop Stickers

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I'm the kind of guy who does a lot of self-expression on my laptop: Hey, what's that at the bottom? A Tapestry 5 laptop sticker? ...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

How They See Us, How We See Them

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Stumbled across this great graphic on GlobalNerdy Blog . Sorry my blog layout gets in the way, try the direct link to the image .
Monday, August 22, 2011

Clojure: Towards the Essence of Programming

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My talk from the What's Next Paris conference , Clojure: Towards The Essence of Programming is now online at InfoQ . This is the full t...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Tapestry 5.3 Ajax Exception Reporting

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I just put together this screencast about an exciting improvement to how Tapestry 5.3 presents server-side exceptions to the client. ...
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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