Posts from ‘December, 2008’

One of the little touches I added to Able, which came from code originally in BrowserMob, was a nice little JDK logging formatter. It is designed to work with modern IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA being my personal favorite) and their ability to understand shorthand notation for classes.
As I was building BrowserMob, I was getting irritated by [...]

Very smart move by both the Merb and Rails project leaders:

Big news in the world of Ruby web frameworks: Merb and Rails will be merged.[From InfoQ: Merb Will Be Merged Into Rails 3.0 ]

I’ve been telling people for a while that Ruby has been following the Java path at an accelerated pace. Ruby [...]

Reposting Matt’s blog entry:

If you live in Portland, Oregon – or just happen to be in town – you might want to join us for some beers and tech talk tomorrow (Monday) night. Patrick Lightbody, Howard Lewis Ship and Matt Raible will be meeting around 6:30PM at the Rogue Distillery & Public House. [...]

Tonight I will be speaking at the Portland Java User’s Group in downtown Portland:

Patrick will present his work on a new open source initiative named Able. Able is a combination of a library and quickstart template that aims to tightly integrate several modern Java frameworks: Hibernate (persistence), Stripes (web framework), Guice (core container), [...]

I completely agree with Martin Fowler’s latest post:

The sweet spot, however is in making DSLs business-readable rather than business-writeable. If business people are able to look at the DSL code and understand it, then we can build a deep and rich communication channel between software development and the underlying domain.[From MF Bliki: BusinessReadableDSL]

We’re [...]

I’m loving the fact that FriendFeed is now showing pictures in my posts. To celebrate, here’s some pictures of my dog:

Found out that FriendFeed supports showing images in your blog posts as long as your blog emits MediaRSS. This is a test of that feature by using a tweaked version of the MediaRSS plugin for WordPress. It has supposedly been modified to be compatible with FriendFeed.
Here’s a nice picture of where I stayed during my [...]