Category Archives: Brainfart

Chris has a new blog. First posting is a gloat about the cricket though – will wait for some serious java geek words… In case you wondered what the origin of the word ‘pom‘ was: pom·my or pom·mie Pronunciation Key … Continue reading →

OpenSymphony has a new Wiki online, powered by SnipSnap. It should be useful for on-the-fly documentation writing and tip sharing. Already the WebWork Cookbook has moved there and got some extra contributions! [rebelutionary] Brilliant stuff – the webwork cookbook on … Continue reading →

SnipSnap is running the OpenSymphony wiki – thinking about using this for an internal project wiki.

The new version of messenger comes with a big fat link at the top of the contact list titled “Click here to join the Customer Experience Improvement Program”. They have invited me to join the program to help them collect … Continue reading →

I want one of these! Of course I could probably just build one myself…

My head hurts. Have spent most of the afternoon starting to introduce mock object testing to my project. Not being ‘test infected’ to perfection I’ve been happily prototyping away without writing tests first for a couple of weeks, so introducing … Continue reading →

Have picked up a couple more Eclipse plugins worth having: JNDI Browser – provides a nifty tree browser for your JNDI directory Solar Eclipse – not as good an XML editor as XML Buddy, but it does JSP syntax highlighting … Continue reading →

Trying to read the forums on javalobby.org but I’m going to have an epileptic fit from the dang flashing oracle full length vertical flash ad. Please please please realise that I’m NEVER going to click on an irritating ad?

Check out ion CMS. It’s basic features for content editing, publishing and workflow are comprehensive and friendly (and NICE to work with from an authoring perspective). Under the hood it uses struts templates and the JSTL – I’ve moved away … Continue reading →

Switched development platform from Orion 1.6.0 to JBoss 3.04 this afternoon. Took about an hour, mainly because Jetty will not run with <distributable/> in web.xml. XDoclet puts a <distributable/> tag in there by default. Took a lot of forum-trawling to … Continue reading →