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Saturday, 26 October 2002

Web-the_simplest_thing_that_can_possibly-Work. I get WebWork. Finally. For some reason I've had a mental block on it up until now. Every time I sat down to explore it something came up, or I got bored. Finally cracked it this afternoon. Turns it I was expecting something complex, and it's actually really simple. This appeared to cause me as much (or more) mental discontinuity as when I'm expecting something to be trivial, and it turns out to be much more complex. WW really is very simple, but it lacks an 'idiots guide' which would have been very helpful to me. I'll see if I can retrace my steps and post my experiences up sometime. [Pushing the envelope] Great! A WW idiots guide would be fantastic. Did you read Joseph Ottinger's tutorial? Maybe that would be a good starting point to collaborate on? 12:21:52 PM  comment []      The Server Side RSS feed. TheServerSide.com, the SlashDot of the J2EE world, now sports a couple of RSS feeds. I can never remember to hit the site regularly, so having an RSS feed available will certainly make life ever so slightly easier for me. Now all I need is RSS feeds from KernelTrap and LWN. Oh, and a Cafe au Lait RSS feed would be quite nice as well. (more ...) [rc3.org] Finally! I've been telling the TSS guys they needed an RSS feed for 6 months now. Good to see they got around to it (it's tough to do you know ). 12:15:57 PM  comment []      Struts meets Swing.  [Erik's Weblog] This article is totally ridiculous. When I read the introduction ("Most Struts applications use a browser as the client, but the framework is actually open enough to allow other client types.") I thought maybe Struts was as flexible as WebWork in allowing different types of clients to run actions. Reading on - this is definitely not the case. The application is done using the URLConnection class and sending data in plain text back and forth across the wire. Open enough? Bah! That's just being silly. 12:03:22 PM  comment []      Wow - 4 days of no blog posts - can you tell we're working our asses off on JIRA 2.0? 11:52:26 AM  comment []