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September, 2004:

Jiving in Portland

Sep 20th, 2004
by plightbo.
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About 6 weeks ago I left Spoke Software to take on a new challenge at a company: Jive Software. I’m extremely excited about this opportunity because it opens me up to tons of new learning opportunities — especially those not necessarily directly technolog-related.

Spoke was great for the 14 months I was there. What I learned has been invaluable. The company is in the process of transitioning in to something really great and I’m sad that there isn’t a way to do everything in life.

This new job also means a new location: I no longer reside in San Francisco, CA, but rather Portland, OR. I got my furniture last week (movers will always underwhelm you), and so I’m finally settling in (including the powering up of lightbody.net).

Anyway, if anyone in the Portland area reads this, feel free to drop me a note and itroduce yourself.

WebWork Releases

Sep 20th, 2004
by plightbo.
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My first post since May. Yikes. Well, I plan to post more often now (honest). I’ve got a few extra hours a day (I’ll explain in the next post). Recently I pushed out WebWork 2.1.1 and XWork 1.0.2, which was promptly followed up with XWork 1.0.3 due to a bug in the packaging.

WebWork 2.1.2 will be coming out soon as there are very few issues left. After that, work will begin on getting us to a 2.2 release, which will include:

  • JavaScript validation cleanup
  • Portlet implementation
  • Updated tag library syntax (no more “””)
  • Refactored UI tag library to support languages other than Velocity.

Please add any major features you’d like to see. There are currently 60+ issues open for 2.2, so don’t expect everything to make it, but I am curious to hear about the “big issues” that people want to see addressed.