tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-177376462011-04-22T00:47:53.263-04:00Notes, thoughts and ramblings about software development. blug, bulg, gulb,..kiltubridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04698814436232379488noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17737646.post-1141467983253297222006-03-04T05:18:00.000-05:002006-03-04T05:26:23.256-05:00

Very interesting Presentation method.How to create Takahashi Method presentation in XUL.http://cardboard.nu/blog/2005_12_15/a_cute_mozilla_xul_app.html.Was inspired by Jim Weirich’s RubyOnRails presentation, Jim Wienrich's blog , thanks Jim.Here's a good example of the Takahashi Method with good info onIdentity management.http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/

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Talk on Web Identity.Identity 2.0 VideoWeb Identity 1.0 = Each site is an identity silo, (Amazon, Google,..). Each having it's own concept and storage of you're identity. Usually username/password. These create walled gardens.Web Identity 2.0 = Trusted source, (Certificate Authority, State of Mass,..), gives you credential, (Client Certificate, Drivers License), that's accepted by gatekeepers, (

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Last month I posted about anemic domain models . Here are some more thoughts, hopefully clarifications with an example that shows the problem and the solution using new features in Spring 2.0.Example:Get a Customer's credit score using a remote credit score service.- I need a Customer entity, entity = persisted instance, that was previously persisted in theDB. I'll call a DAO's find method to get

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Where to put a domain objects CRUD operations?Two possible ways:- Move a domain object's CRUD operations into class methods of the domain object. Kinda like ActiveRecord used in Rails. For example:Product p = Product.find_first(productName); // get a product obj// get the employee pricing strategyPricingStrategy employeePricingStrategy = new EmployPricingStrategy();// calc the employee price for

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A major theme of The Springframework Experience(TSE) was how to deal with Anemic Domain Models. Rod Johnson talked about how he met with Martin Fowler and Eric Evans and discussed this problem. Eric's book, Domain Driven Design, and Martin's book, PoEA, are must reads. And I've noticed many of Eric's ideas and patterns and language used at TSE presentations.Below is my description based on what

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Problem:I have a singleton bean that needs a new instance of a dependency everytime it calls the dependency's get method, getDependency() .Solution:Use lookup-method injection. See pg 115 of Pro Spring for full story.- Create an abstract class for you're singleton.- Create a abstract getter in the singleton class.public abstract class MySingleton{ public abstract MyDependency getMyDependency()

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Attended the Spring Experience in Miami last week. Definitely was a learning experience. Got lot's to think about and digest.The weather was perfect, 85 degrees. Altough, I didn't get to enjoy it that much with days ranging up to 13/14 hours of presentations and BOFs.My general impressions where that the Spring Community is definitely growing, although not as fast as I've wished or hoped. I

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Rails migrations allows you to version the changes to your DB schema. You'll need, at least, version 0. 14.3.Check the rails versionrails --versionORgem list railsHere's an example that will create a task tableCreate the first migration to add a task table. This will create a migration in db/migrate/1_add_task_table.rbruby script/generate migration add_task_tableAdd code to create and drop a the

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I would highly recommend the Pragmatic Studio Rails training. I attending the first incarnation of this training last week in Reston, VA. Excellent!Mike Clark and Dave Thomas put together an great overview of Ruby and Rails. It does move very fast and it will take some time to assimilate all of the info. I found that they presented hard to find and difficult to grasp info on Rails in a clear and

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Joined the "Pioneer Program" for Morfik to get a look at their Ajax/WebOS application builder tool, WebOS App Builder. Ran through their video demo, actual app won't be out until next month, Dec 05.Looks like a RAD tool for building Ajax apps. Has a visual dev environment for creating:DB schema and SQL.How limiting is the generated SQL?Presentation with GUI builder. Can write GUI component

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Saw this interesting post on Zimbra about creating an email, web service mashup.

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When I upgraded to Firefox 1.5 Beta about 1/2 of my, way too many, extensions broke. Until I found this. Nightly Tester Tools makes all my extensions compatible, we'll except for Image Zoom.Couldn't find any significant user feature changes from 1.07 to 1.5. Still looking.

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TestGen4Web will let you record you're web interaction within Firefox. This is going to save me alot of time.It's a Firefox 1.1+ plug-in that creates a toolbar where you can record, save and playback you're navigation/form submisssion/... It will save the recording to an xml file that can used drive httpunit, selenium,...Found some problems going to yahoo -> movies. But seems to work mostly OK.

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Created a map of Springframework developers on google's frappr!Been using spring for a couple of years and thought it would be a good idea to see where other spring developers are lurking.Give the below a click to check it out or add yourself.

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Rick Hightower has written an excellent introduction to Spring. In this intro Rick thanked me for turning him on to Spring back in 03. Rick is a great guy and I've learned soo much from his books, blog and training.I took an Advanced Struts with Rick in Dec 03. It was THE best tech course I've ever taken. Rick is an excellent instructor. His intimate knowledge of Struts/Tiles blew me away. And

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These words:continuationsRESTyurtare javascript URLs, (see below), that invoke a javascript function to lookup the selected word in Wikipedia. Select the word (left click mouse button and drag mouse over word) Left click the mouse button.Javascript URL for wikipedia search."javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection(); if(!q){void(q=prompt('Wikipedia keywords:',''))}; if(q)location.href='http

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Blummy provides a drop down that contains a set of personalized bookmarklets/blummets. Good stuff. Found from the Ajaxian site, which keeps on going down?You can configure blummy through a drag and drop web interface. Just drag you're blummets into the drop down. blummy - Configuration.

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Playing with Bookmarklets. "JavaScript program that can be stored as a URL" and invoked in the browser's location field.Generate password bookmarklet. Uses the domain name and "master password" to generate a MD5 hash password. Better than using the same password for multiple sites.Crunchinator to create a bookmarklet from javascript.Web development bookmarklets.

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Al-In-One-Sidebar add Opera like sidebar. Really liked Opera, co-worker Muslim pointed me to, but moved to Firefox for all the extenstions. Same reason I moved from Intellij to Eclipse. Not always the best that wins just the most adopted, old story.UrlParams displays url param for HTTP Get, Post.XPath Checker finds XML using XPath expressions. Example for Home site. Xpath expr of //*[@id='mBody'

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LiveHTTPHeaders let yo watch and replay HTTP traffic go to and from you're browser. Good for dev/debugging.Web Developer is the swiss army knife of web developer tools. All kinds of feature to let you change and validate HTML/CSS, clear cache or history. Great stuff!View rendered source chart is a great way to view javascript. Much better than "view page source" or "view selection source".With

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Playing with flock blog posting.

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Got the new Pragmatic Ajax book, looks good. Been playing with REST and Ajax.Saw two of the authors Ben Galbraith and Dion at the TSS Symposium back in March talk about Ajax Funny, how some in the crowd put down Javascript. Must've wrangled with cross browser issues.Didn't see the same reaction at the nofluff in Boston last month. Ben gave a great talk on DWR , easy ajax for java, and other

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crummyhouse2_midOriginally uploaded by tdyer1. And here is a Dwyer/Dwyer house in County Leitrim, Ireland, where my great-great grandfather, Tom Dyer, came from in 1866. He ended up in Cambridge, Ma after a short stint across the river in Boston.May not be the exact house where he lived. But, it was at least on the same spot of land.

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TomCDyer1 Originally uploaded by tdyer1. Here's a pic I found of my great grandfather. Taken around 1900. He worked for the city of Cambridge, Ma in the water department.

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Bunch of Web 2.0 apps are out or on the horizion.FlockWaiting for flock to happen, Flock. New browser that works well with del.icio.us tagging, flickr photo sharing and WYSIWYG blogging tools. See flock tagsCouple of interesting apps from 37signals. Writeboard looks interesting and Ta-da List is a good, easy to use todo list. From the guys that brought us Ruby on Rails.Find a place to live with

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Came across these articles on Matt Raible's site. Good ideas for CSS re-use.This article,Modular CSS, advocates grouping styles into modules, style sheets, by function.The broad groups that I use are: typography, forms, layout, navigation and colour. These aren't set in stone and some projects require more or less categories.Here's how he uses these Modules to build a CSS Framework that consists

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Read this book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, at least 10 years ago, and was blown away. Seems like there's alot of buzz around dynamically typed languages lately, Ruby. Makes me want to re-visit the Wizard book.

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Going to the pragmatic programmer's rail studio. Should be fun.Saw Dave Thomas, again, at the nofluffjuststuff in Boston. Buzz was that rails is reaching a tipping point. Could be?

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Found this site on video blogging, freevlog. Looks pretty basic, good starting point. And this videoblogging.info has general info on video blogging.And this video blogging aggregator, kinda like odeo for podcast, mefedia. Got to check this out. Wonder how this is implemented? J2EE/Rails/..Streaming your live content to the web orb. Got to check this out.Another interesting video/podcast

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Just a dopey post from the blug.

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