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Every moment in your life has built you for the decision at hand.

NOT an obligation.

Unit testing view layers has always been a difficult problem for me.

If you’re really passionate about designing great websites, browser specific CSS is a necessary evil.

If you don’t do it, who will?

Do your job…..plus one…. — Me This is somewhat related to my previous post, but slightly different.

How are you going to change the world?

Today I took a personality survey called “The Strengh Finder”, and it got me thinking.

Consider the following class definition: class Door acts_as_state_machine :initial => :open state :closed state :open event :lock do transitions :from => :open, :to => closed end event :unlock do transitions :from => :closed, :to => open end…

Now with 100% more AJAX!

Okay, I KNOW I might be jumping the gun here, but I just have to say that the new Firefox Ubiquity Plugin is the greatest piece of software written.

Dependency Injection is a common technique in Java applications.

It’s been a busy few weeks now that 4th edition Dungeons and Dragons is out the door!

For the past several years, my standard workflow for investigating new Java tools and technologies relied on writing a series of “bare bones” unit tests to explore functionality.

My definition of “Managed” Objects: Objects that are manipulated by a separate container with a pre-defined lifecycle.

There are lots of software development methodologies.

I feel a bit like little Joe Miller in this classic video… This Wednesday will be a big day for me.

Over the past year and a half, I’ve been heavily involved in migrating a large size application from OC4J appserver to tomcat.

In the past, I’ve shown how easy it is to publish RSS/atom feeds within Wicket applications, and now it is just as easy to consume external feeds.

I’m absolutely obsessed with my application’s classpath.

Alright Folks!

Last week I was asked to give a presentation comparing Java web frameworks for an upcoming project.

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been been seeing lots of posts for fancy Javascript validation libraries.

I was asked by a co-worker the other day what I would recommend to improve productivity.

Drag and drop support in wicketstuff-scriptaculous project has undergone some major changes over the past few days.

For the love of God, will someone please create a Java version of an application launcher ala Quicksilver?!?

Happy New Year everyone!

I’ve continued to work on shard-cyclops this last week and just pushed out a new release that has a few updates including: display the distance of the token path while moving around the grid automate deployment of the project using the new codecrate webst…

After uncovering the horrible state of affairs for Java Webstart developers, I spent some time trying to figure out where to go next.

I thought I’d have a demo out sooner, but working with Java Webstart is quite a pain in the arse.

A few recent announcements within the Wicket community seem blog worthy.

It’s been a while since my last blog entry, and I hope you’ll believe me when I say that I’ve been busy for the past month or so… I may have had a break from blogging, but I’ve still been busy coding.

With the recent release of the scriptaculous 1.8 javascript library, I’ve released an update to the wicketstuff-scriptaculous project that incorporates these latest changes (including prototype 1.6!).

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m finally posting about my recent experience at the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference.This was my first time at an NFJS conference, and overall it was well worth the weekend.

Based on some recent user suggestions, I’ve released a new version of the maven testdox plugin.

For the past couple days, I’ve been unnaturally obsessed with the Ruby syntax for looking up persistent objects.

Just when I think I’m a Wicket guru, I discover a new layer to this pretty amazing framework.

It seems as though the Codehaus Mojo Project has reached the end of the line.

I love Wicket, and I love RSS so it’s only logical that I’d find a way to serve up RSS within Wicket.

I’ve been heavily involved with a major performance initiative for the past several months.

It’s been a week since the first “release” of my wicket/hibernate integration, and the feedback from the wicket community has been pretty amazing.

It’s been an impressively difficult task to improve upon the initial version of my Wicket/Hibernate integration, but I finally hit a break through.

In my opinion, there are three very key concepts to Wicket’s architecture.

Just incase anyone thought that the wicket-contrib-scriptaculous project had dropped off the face of the earth, this is just a reminder that it’s still going strong!

Wow.

You may see a new maven2 plugin showing up soon at the Codehaus Mojo project sandbox.

I haven’t been the biggest fan of JRoller, and now they’ve sunk to a new low, adding spam to my RSS feed.

It’s just another form of TDD… This may sound weird coming from me, but there are times when unit testing can do more harm than good.

I use HSQLDB in my development environment, and for the most part it works great.

I’ve used Hibernate off and on over the years, and just recently discovered one of its weirdest features.