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Posts on ‘December 29th, 2008’

Tip: Compact Logging in Java

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 [...]

Merb to be Merged in to Rails

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 [...]

Tonight: Java and Beer AppFuse and Tapestry tech leads

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. [...]