This is live blogging of boring things. Suffer with me as I spend my Saturday night working on something that I’ve longed to have finished for some time. A waste of bits and bandwidth, and dear reader, a waste of your precious time, but I must, must get this completed.
Let this be a record of […]
Back in the olden days, there was this thing called push. Push rode a wave of hype all to familiar to those us who have been around the block, before dropping off the face of the earth.
The protocols to support it still exist, however. They occured to me when thinking about a multicast publish/subscribe system […]
Set out to create smaller JAR distributables last month. My projects are breaking themselves up into smaller artifacts. Many are independent.
I read through script.aculo.us and Prototype in fifteen minutes. It is amazing that you can get so much out so little code.
The read goes quick, because there is not much code, and because all the […]
If the tests are supposed to act as documentation, one should create a documentation test.
I’m taking a peek at Monento, and trying to see the project organization, when everything is dumped into a single directory. A certian library pops out at me. The one used to select clusters for mutation. I’d like to record […]
My Tracepoint plugin for Eclipse begins with an update site. Before any real code is written, I want to know that the results will be published in a timely mannor.
I’m working off of the How to Keep Up to Date article at eclipse.org.
This isn’t dovetailing with the new structure I’ve eastablished for my builds. Eclipse […]
Relay was leaking file handles in a bad way. In a crashy way. Getting rid of the last occurance right now.
Relay has it’s own URI resolver, since the Java URI resolver to both too complex, and not flexible enough.
Too complex is self-evident. Many things there I don’t need, and do not want to implement. […]
I wrote an article just now, about how I replaced a lot of XML driven, reflection based, non-sense, with a Java class heirarchy that was no more or less convoluted, but much, much, faster.
The library creates an event handler that builds Java objects from XML events. The old library used an event handler to build […]
Yesterday, I was, as the say, refactoring a library I wrote called Madlib. With it, I build Java object trees in XML, by specifying the properties missing from the heirarchy. So, I named it for the children’s word game that operates on the same premise. (Thinking about renaming it though.)
This is how Relays are built […]
I’ve always had an Ant target called “copacetic” that I’d fire off before a check in. It would run compile and test my work. This has become the working name of my continuous integration system, which I’ll tell you a bit about.
I’ve got a standard project structure now, inspired by the abilities of Ivy, that […]
I’ve not posted in a couple days. I’ve been working with Ant scripts. I don’t like to do this, nor do I think that it needs to be done. It feels like a perpetual motion machine project, some sorry nut trying to create a working Ant build, believing it is possible when it is not.
My […]