Marc, himself, his blogs, and you reading them

Switching

Fri, 28 Nov 2003 08:55:12 GMT

Yo babes...

time to update your URL's, I'm in the process of moving out from Radio UserLand towards the MovableType running over here: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/mpo/

ATM, it is just showing some postings on how the export-import of my archives is working out. So if it actually works you should be able to see that over there as well.

See you there.

java.lang.* and knowledge radius

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:47:18 GMT

Today one of the java.lang.* secrets disclosed itself to me (through a willing hand from the maven user list)

Runtime version inspection of packages (provided you have decent manifest.mf files, and do use maven if you don't)

The more you investigate, the more you learn that there is soooo much more to learn... specially about the stuff you thought you already knew all there is to know about...

Maven - http://maven.apache.org

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:05:58 GMT

Being the local ant-hardcore peep in the company it's probably not the most logical statement to make...

"maven rocks"

Ok, they have some bugs still (and I have to admit I'm comming accross a number of them rather fast, at least faster then expected for something that is said to be quite widely used?) but it largely "Just Works(tm)" and it really releaves a lot of the classical 'have to reinvent wheel' stuff I've been seeing at a lot of places. The list of offered plugins is really impressive.

As for digging the community spirit it's a bit early of course (I'm a fresh lurker/participant)... still some first round observations: mails on the lists get answered promptly and politely, issuetracking seems to be followed up closely... first impression word would be 'efficient' rather then what I experience over at cocoon which adds 'cozy', 'fun', 'visionary'

I'll just have to stick around some more (surely since I want to actively use each plugin in the pack ;-))

Joel on unicode and char encodings

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:55:14 GMT

The option is yours: "Read it, or start practicing on those submarine-onions..."

Relax and enjoy...

Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:10:40 GMT

Sigh, gettogether stress...

not too much visible I hope, but while things are slowly reaching the end I can't help feeling how some 'relax' is finally getting to me... sitting next to lenya-miki, exchanging kids-snapshots actually :-)

now for really relaxing: I spotted a new wine-bar arround the corner here, looks like a possible escape (and refill-spot) to really chill down with the hard core after the diner here.

I do hope to end up at a lonely table with some yanks and aussies again... Just one thing: God, let me be drunk enough to enjoy their jokes ;-)

Countdown started.

Mon, 06 Oct 2003 07:51:15 GMT

Thx to Jeremy popping in before breakfast we have the wifi set up and are ready to roll.

Room is filling up with new faces to the known names...

Here goes, let's dig this.

Soulmate

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:05:50 GMT

My sentiments exactly.

In fact this is also why I never had my hopes up for wild statements as 'round-trip engineering' (in UML context). This makes me remember the funny quotation about it being as absurd as trying to reverse a sausage machine: (hopelessly) trying to get the pig back :-)

In every case I am quite sure that people (including me) will keep on trying (and should be encouraged to) although the outcome in all this is pretty much covered by 'Turtles all the way down'

Wobbly doesn't matter...

Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:15:22 GMT

Friend of my sent me this message:

Weird!

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe.

Fcuknig amzanig huh?

Mkaes me rmmbeeer tihs quttoaion from A.A. Mline (athuor of Wnniie the Pooh) :

My spllneig is Wobbly. It's good sepnllig but it Wblobes, and the ltrtees get in
the wnrog plcaes. -- AA Milne

This very much applies to my own spelling (at least I realize) but today I just got Cambridge backing me in not worrying too much ;-)

Hm, I wonder what Google will make out of this?

*udtape* : as epxetded gglooe jsut fnids the ohtres blggnoig these rsletsus.

Cocoon's GT2003

Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:15:41 GMT

Being late in announcing to you this not to be missed event can only be justified by adding that the responses for the planned Hackathon on the day before is already making us reserve an additional room so we can host more people and thus cover more topics.

So it is not too late yet to add yourself and the topics you'ld like to see discussed.

Poll

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:48:28 GMT

I was wondering today...

Is Belgium really the only country in the world where employees are confronted with ridiculous 'toiletiquette' announcements in the rest rooms?

Please let me (mpo at outerthought dot org) know if other countries have the same kind of folklorish custom, and please make sure it cannot be traced to an over-active former Belgian colleague feeling the need to educate his fellow humans.

If yes, we should get to the bottom of this. Why do we think people are not educated enough already by mom and dad to behave in public rest rooms?

If not, I am deprived from the comforting feeling that it is only this small country doing this...

*update *: Google (via Tom) makes me see the whole world is tied up in this: 25700 hits!!!
There is however one that should get a boost in his Google ranking: In fact *that* is the kind of stuff I would appreciate reading in a rest-room :-)

Ok, the new question then: who has already seen this kind of patronizing publications in the corporate context, i.e. with company logo and all?

Commies Communicating.

Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:47:24 GMT

I just had a friend over whom I haven't seen for a while. He just couldn't believe that somethings could be as easy as blogging.

Showing him a wiki is next!. That will surely blow his socks off.

Amazing, how being connected through blogs,wikis, the Apache Cocoon Community really gives me a third eye. And he has a job in software quality, go figure :-) It's all anout comminucation lads. (Even this is)

HeisenBert

Wed, 06 Aug 2003 09:06:36 GMT

I find todays Dilbert just ... hm, a bit unsure what to call it

Viewpoints...

Sat, 02 Aug 2003 12:29:43 GMT

Hm, guess I got carried away a bit here: [RT] Cubist WebApp Team Organization.

... maybe it should of have been just a blog (it is now)However it felt right to primarily bounce back to the group that got me into thinking the thoughts.

For those in seach of more context in my brain there is related stuff blogged on 6/6, 25/6 and 7/7. This starts being quite a thought train, I'ld better get ready to switch some tracks, after all: we're still in pursuit of the bigger goal, aren't we :-)

Food for thought...

Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:51:07 GMT

Nice one from Matthew.

Cocoon activity

Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:07:31 GMT

Quite busy days (as to be seen here) over at Apache Cocoon

2.1RC1 released.
Get Together 2003 train on the tracks.
Loads of Crossing the chasm discussions getting Cocoon into a web app framework about:
- flow and alternatives...
- form handling framework...
- file-upload, webdav and xmlrpc apps...
- chaching strategies
- real blocks...
- using O/R mapping frameworks ...

and very much proud of earning committership while this is happening...

(there is more work to do there, have to run!)

Happy cause it 's happening

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:11:25 GMT

Apache Cocoon, the Web Application framework formerly known as the XML Publication Framework :-)

Shape up for the Webapps of the post-XML-era...