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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
If one looks at the sitemesh 2.3 example application, an application can have both Freemarker and JSP decorators.
In addition, one has very flexible usage of sitemesh tag libs from with a decorator.
For instance one can reference freemarker's taglib within freemarker via.
<#assign page=JspTaglibs["/WEB-INF/sitemesh-page.tld"]>
This allows one to include decorated external content from ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Need to keep this site handy.
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
On both my windows work machine and Linux Desktop at home the p2 update manager was not able to cut it. Halfway though re-installing various I used to, I used to linked in via external folder(using the .link method), P2 got into an unresolvable dependency problem that pretty much locked ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
There is a jira patch proposed here for handling XML. However that patch still needs to mature(see limitations) and gain acceptances. What might not be obvious(a.k.a poorly documented), is that stock XStream already has the
capability to handling this for many use cases.
The test class com.thoughtworks.acceptance.CustomMapperTest
Contains a method ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
I was hoping it would. I would like to use it to play around with some ruby development. I still may. However, for Java development it seems like its missing some fairly basic functionality that I have become use to in eclipse.
One of the basic things I was trying ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Found this blog post on What Makes jQuery a Good Choice?
Thought this provided a pretty good summary.
There is a response here. I don't have a problem with prototype, though I have latched on to jQuery(probably aided by its better documentation).
My bad experiences root from Dojo, its bloat and ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The original aliasInteceptor works fine for gluing together actions with different parameter names that need to be clued together. The limitation with the existing solution is that properties for both name an alias need to exist in the stack.
The world keeps evolving though. Developers make frequent use of richer ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I feel that jquery's validation plugin gives a much better UI treatment than the struts client side validation. In addition, there are case where one does not want to pay any Dojo penality.
To make a remote (server side) validation call, the server must return a true/false JSON response. There is ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Found the following post -&gt; Jetty improves in Netscraft survey again.Got to remember to share this, due to it being a recent converation at work
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
XWork 2.1.1 is out and should be in the maven repos shortly.
This release has my patch for inherited packages
Complete change log here.
Hopefully this means a Struts 2.1.1 release is coming shortly.
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