I saw a great talk about jMaki which looks like an awesome lightweight framework to easily integrate ajax into your apps. It wraps common ajax libraries like jQuery, Dojo, etc. It uses the familiar convention over configuration to make things quick to develop and has multiple server-side language support, for example, PHP, JSP and Ruby. It also supplies an xml http proxy to interact with services outside of your domain. A jMaki wiget is a […]
Today was the first day of JavaOne proper and it was packed! There are so many people here! I arrived for breakfast at about 8am and already a queue was forming for the opening keynote general session. By the time I joined the end of it it had stretched the length of the Moscone Center. When I got inside the massive hall it was more like a rock concert. Loud music was pumping and some […]
Today was the Java University day. It was a long day. There were three sessions, each of three hours duration which meant a twelve hour day (including breaks). My first session was Developing Enterprise Applications With the Spring Framework with Chris Richardson, the author of POJOs in Action. He was a good speaker although he had one of those slightly mutant delicately nuanced accents that Brits seem to get after spending a long time living […]
Today I arrived in sunny San Francisco ahead of JavaOne 2008. Tomorrow is the Java University day before the main conference starts on Tuesday. I’m staying in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel on Powell Street. This is an interesting hotel, built in 1928, with lots of quirky touches like doormen in Beefeater uniforms and a cool “Cutler Mailing System” which seems to be a chute that runs down the elevator shaft. Presumably you can drop […]
While I was doing a yum update today I noticed it was trying mirror.facebook.com. It turns out they mirror a lot of open source projects there.
I thought I may as well put some of the work I did for my MSc online rather than leave it languishing on my hard drive where it will never be seen again. I’m not ready to publish my final project yet but here is a research essay I wrote about Mock Objects and test driven design (TDD).