NFJS 2006 Tour Kicks Off In Milwaukee
27 Feb 2006 4:00am GMT The 2006 NFJS tour kicked off this weekend in Milwaukee, and this was hands-down the best show I've been to yet (and I've been to a lot: around 50 symposiums in the past 3 yrs). It was great to see all my old comrades from the tour. Three-plus months is a long time without seeing any of them and I've missed hanging out with this incredibly talented group of truly great people. Stuart Halloway, Bruce Tate, Dave Thomas, Venkat Subramaniam (pronounced Superman) and yours truly started the...
Maven Rocks
4 Feb 2006 12:35am GMT Since I'm lucky enough to reside in both the Rails and JSF worlds simultaneously, I often get asked what we can do in Java to reap some of the benefits of Rails. I had no idea until recently, but Maven—especially Maven 2—is a heck of a good start. Maven has been on my list of things to learn for awhile, but it's never made it to the top until I experienced a Maven confluence of sorts, when Shale added Maven support and a client handed me an application built with Maven. Maven,...
Shale Simplifies Remoting
18 Jan 2006 7:06pm GMT On my way home from JavaPolis, I was thinking about the Ajax demo I gave during my Shale presentation. In that demo, I use Ajax with Shale remoting to populate city and state fields in response to a selection from a zip code menu. Whooo hooo! I had given a variant of that demo quite a few times at NFJS but I was always uncomfortable showing the corresponding code, because it felt overly-complicated. To use Shale remoting, you had to: Declare a Jakarta Commons Chain object in...
It Never Occurred to Us...
27 Dec 2005 11:20am GMT From an article titled Out of the Fyer, Into the Lights in the Dining In section of the New York Times, Wednesday, Dec. 23rd: We all learned in Hebrew school that the reason we eat latkes on Hanukkah was because they were cooked in oil, to remind us of the miracle of the oil that lasted eight days instead of one," Ms. Goldman said. "It never occurred to us that you could eat other fried things until some Israelis in our congregation introduced us to sufganiyot (jelly donuts). Surely this is...
Nerd fest!
21 Dec 2005 9:46pm GMT I have no idea who Ms. Mama is, but this is great! I hope you had a good time at the conference, Mr. P! I don't think I can handle this A cloudy day in Metropolis I think I'll talk to my analyst Jimmy Olsen's Blues from Pocket Full of Kryptonite by Spin Doctors