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Thursday, 25 July 2002

Pyra is still alive - at least according to DMOZ "So, I'm looking in the Google directory under project management to see what's out there these days, and what do you know..." Based on yesterday's blog entry about DMOZ directory as a good source - this is amusing. JIRA was inspired (in large part) from Pyra. If you look at a lot of the features, they're very similar. The only thing we don't have is so many popups! I was disappointed when Pyra took Pyra down in favour of Blogger. Pyra rocked my world as a PM app. [evhead] 12:25:30 PM  comment []      Java Software Automation with Jakarta Ant - this is cool (if not totally wacky). As of Ant 1.5 it seems that you can run Ant scripts from within your application (turning Ant into a general purpose task scripting and automation tool). The example given here is an AntServlet that sets up the request, response, session etc as Ant properties, and then runs an Ant script - Ant as JSP! This integration is great for IDE vendors though - no more spawning an expensive new Java process to run Ant. Do it in process, do it faster. Neat. 10:59:20 AM  comment []      Subversion hits Alpha - woot. I would use this over CVS, except that my source control system is definitely not something I want to find bugs in (as I use it daily). That's a problem I think. Hopefully when it gets more stable, more users etc - we'll move to it. Although if everyone feels the same way, we're all screwed 10:48:54 AM  comment []      JBoss: An In-Depth Look at the Interceptor Stack. The Interceptor Stack implemented in JBoss' EJB Container module has proved so successful that it's being extended into other areas of JBoss 3. A look at the container implementation. Interesting! Rickard is one of my favourite people - he doesn't think linearly. I like that. 10:38:37 AM  comment []      Fascinating riddles and other mental challenges: Good stuff, a little Slashdot'ed at the moment. Give it a day or two. [via Julian's Scrapbook] 12:18:14 AM  comment []      The other Trove. "is a library of useful classes that is used by Tea and the TeaServlet. Trove includes the Class File API, the Logging API and a set of utility classes." The HttpClient looks pretty useful. [Blogging Roller] Many useful classes here - I like things like the Set backed Map. I find myself writing these things whenever I need them - which is poor reusability. I once found a project which aimed to catalogue all the 'tiny apps' for DOS. Has anyone ever thought of cataloguing 'tiny classes' for Java? (a tiny class being something that doesn't really interact with other classes - a utility rather than an application) Would be a very useful list IMHO. 12:14:21 AM  comment []