Wednesday, 4 December 2002

The reading list keeps growing Day 1 of Writing. I spent most of the day today in the library, pounding away on my keyboard trying to get a good start on my first chapter, Security in Web Applications. I put together suggested outlines for my two chapters over the weekend, and I'm posting them here for your review. I tried to convert them to PDF, but then decided to leave them as Word documents so you can 1) see the outline view, and 2) comment in-line if you'd like. I'll also post the PDF version (thanks to FastPDF). Chapter Outline - Security (35K), PDF (17K) Chapter Outline - Struts (41K), PDF (22K) It was difficult getting started today, but once I got moving, I found that the words just kinda flowed out and it was rather enjoyable. The bad news is that I have until Friday to complete some 40-odd pages and I'm going skiing tomorrow with Julie's uncle, Chris Voda. Actually, the skiing is the good part, it'll clear my head and get me ready to write like a coder in the zone. [Raible Designs :: We Build Web Apps] Something to read up on. 10:00:02 AM

Synchronous GUI coding So I spent some time yesterday ripping out all my SwingWorker and other misc. invokeAndWait/invokeLater code and replaced it with foxtrot which provides a nice syncronous model. Basically it runs the heavy code in a seperate thread, blocks the code flow (as if invokeAndWait were used) but allows the EDT to dequee messages. Fsck'ing brilliantly easy to retrofit into a large code base (as opposed to something like Spin).. My $0.02 (sorry dave, no I10N filter in radio<g>) [Taking Out The Garbage Beotch] Hey that looks sexy ... 1:44:21 AM

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