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9:36:51 AM    comment []  

Az
Lajos Moczar of Galatea.com silently announced Az, an integrated package of several open source software components that support the development and deployment of web applications... Basically: a packaged version of Apache, Tomcat and Cocoon with some glue scripts around. It's good making this stuff freely available - too often, we assume every user finds no objection in fetching CVS sandboxes, harvesting email lists for installation problem reports, etc... Someday, I'm sure somebody will wrap up an InstallShield release of Cocoon, too.

Also, more and more Cocoon books are being announced these days. I had the opportunity to co-author a Cocoon book earlier during the year, but bailed out fearing I had basically not enough time to contribute to that project. And now here I am, happily blogging past midnight :-)
1:21:35 AM    comment []  

Slow days
Don't have much time to spend on blogging these days. Busy times, juggling time slots around and trying to micromanage my own schedule - something I'm not too good at. Time management is one of the running jokes in our company. We've all heared about it :-)

On a more interesting note, I've sent out an offer for setting up a development documentation environment based on Forrest and Cocoon. If this offer succeeds, it looks like we'll be having some paid time to further advance Forrest. I basically want to make it grammar-neutral, giving people the ability to use whatever grammar they want for document authoring. But then of course I need to think of some intermediate format which is basically the interface for the skinning system. I know I should be looking at XHTML for that purpose, but I find this a difficult dragon to tame. OTOH, it quite well describes what is possible using a webbrowser :-)
1:06:49 AM    comment []