Friday, March 28, 2014

Google Docs Thinks You are Offline? Work around their bug!

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... and so suddenly, and without warning, Google Docs stopped responding for me. My spreadsheet (my invoice spreadsheet without which I can...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Gradle: overruling third-party dependencies

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We all hate dependency hell, and on any Java project of any size, you'll hit it eventually. My project, for Aviso , is a large Clojure ...
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Friday, December 06, 2013

Tapestry Quicky: ConditionalComment

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Here's a quicky I just put together for a client to generate IE conditional comments . This isn't a feature supported by Tapestry...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Improving Clojure Feedback : Stack Traces

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Perhaps no subject in software development is as important to me as feedback , which to my mind, is the language, library, or framework prov...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Gainesville in February 2014

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I'll be spending about three weeks in Gainesville, Florida this coming February (2014). For the wife and kids, its about visiting the g...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Named Parameters for Clojure

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Clojure can simulate named parameters, or a mix of positional and named parameters. This is really old news, dating back to Clojure 1.2 if ...
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Tapestry 5.4: An Avalanche of Fixed Issues

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I've been working through the Tapestry issue list over the last couple of days; I'm closing a lot of duplicate and invalid bugs, and...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Closing in on Tapestry 5.4

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We're getting very close to a beta release of Tapestry 5.4. I've spent the last couple of weeks converting an existing client's...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Once more ... feedback please!

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You've probably heard about "Not Invented Here" syndrome: the drive among developers to create something of their own, rather ...
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Friday, February 01, 2013

Crafting Code in Clojure

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The other day, I was working on a little bit of code in Clojure, just touching up some exception reporting, when I was suddenly struck by ...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Red Code, Green Code, My Code, Your Code

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I had a very odd interchange with my friend Merlyn over lunch; he started talking about red code vs. green code (in the context of supporti...
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Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Tapestry 5.4: jQuery Support now in place

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I've spent the last several months significantly reworking Tapestry 5's client-side JavaScript support, in an effort to move away fo...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

How we can be more secure with mail-in ballots than touch screens

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Yes, it's election day! I didn't wait in line ... I live in Oregon, where balloting is done by mail. That's a much better syste...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Zeroing in on Tapestry 5.4

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I've had just a bit of time this week to devote to furthering the work on Tapestry 5.4, and it feels like I'm near the turning point...
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Monday, October 15, 2012

Not going to Clojure/Conj ... need a ticket?

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Unfortunately, I will not be going to Clojure/Conj this year . And it is too late for a refund ... so I'm looking for someone to purch...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Stop sending template engines to the browser!

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This article about client-side templating by Henrik Joreteg was quite interesting. In summary, it says don't send templates to the brow...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

CoffeeScript Cautions

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Over the last couple of months, I've coded nearly all my client-side code in CoffeeScript . I prefer CoffeeScript to JavaScript ... but ...
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