Well, to show you how far behind the times I actually am, I finally got my “orkut”:http://www.orkut.com/ invite. I’ve never been that interested in this whole ‘social networking’ thing, but after a few minutes of playing around with it I realised that all Orkut is doing is providing a framework…
I’ve been looking into this whole XWork + Swing thing a little more, and have come up with a fairly simplistic example of how a Swing+XWork framework might look. If you want to follow the code I suggest you read my brief “XWork tutorial(A Simple Xwork Example)”:http://www.magpiebrain.com/archives/000180.html. Anyway, my example…
Rational There are many MVC web frameworks, but as far as I can see there are very few MVC frameworks for Swing (I actually don’t know of any, but there might be some out there). Outlined here is the rough design for one. Please note that this is in the…
Jeffrey Aaron Farr has managed to “accurately sum up(IoC > Dependency Management)”:http://www.jadetower.org/muses/archives/000020.html some of the points I’ve been wanting to make concerning the feedback (mine included) to the “recent article(Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern)”:http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html by Martin Fowler, and has done so far more eloquently that I…
del.icio.us seems to be to bookmarks what “blo.gs”:http://blo.gs/ is to blogs. del.icio.us provides an online bookmark manager, which provides simple bookmarklets to add and view your bookmarks, and even allows categorization. Your bookmarks are public, and can even be retrieved via RSS making integration into websites fairly easy – those…
Finally someone has written a “tool(redemption in a blog – MT-Blacklist Updater)”:http://blog.codefront.net/archives/2003/12/14/mtblacklist_updater.php#comments to dynamically update your MT blacklist. As some of you may be aware, Jay Allen’s excellent “MT Blacklist(MT-Blacklist – A Movable Type plugin to eradicate comment and trackback spam)”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ plugin allows you to blacklist comments based on URLs,…
So there I was, trying to create an XSLT style sheet for my RSS 2.0 feed, when I managed to overwrite the main index.html template for my blog with the RSS 2.0 template. Thankfully a friend pointed out than I’d made a right asshat of myself – I’ve restored and…
Just found the site “RssWeather.com”:http://www.rssweather.com/, which as you can guess provides RSS feeds with weather forcasts. Its mostly centred around the US and Canada right now, but they have a feed for “London(RssWeather.com’s RSS 2.0 Feed for London)”:http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?config=&forecast=zandh&icao=EGLL&alt=rss20 which is handy for me. It will also make a great example…
Work is proceeding on my second article on the “Informa API”:http://informa.sourceforge.net/ – I’m currently refactoring the FeedManager class whose use forms the basis of the article. The FeedManager‘s job is to manage multiple feeds, and handle their lazy loading (which will fix a major flaw with the simple code presented…
It seems just as spammers decided to start targeting blogs, we (or more accurately more able, less lazy people) have come up with all kinds of solutions to keep our blogs spam free. Jay Allen’s “MT Blacklist”:http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/10/mtblacklist_stop_spam_now works like a charm and really should be a feature of MT itself.…
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