Raible Designs

Friday July 11, 2003

Pornolize your blog This is some seriously funny stuff. Try it on your blog and I guarantee you'll get a chuckle or two out of it. Posted in General at Jul 11 2003, 01:53:40 PM MDT 4 Comments

Words of Wisdom from James Gosling After reading James's All I Really Need to Know I Learned while Skiing with my Grandmother (damn, no permalink), I've come up with a Raible Developer Creed.

• Balance - strive for it. If you're staying up late to develop, and you haven't spent a few hours with your friends/family that day - you're not being fair to yourself, or them.
• You're breathing too hard. You must be doing something wrong. Take the time to learn before doing. This is going to be a tough one as I tend to just jump in and try to do something. However, I'm sure if I studied the technology/documentation first, it would actually take me less time to do it.
• Inspiration is 99% Observation. I'm going to try to limit how much I do outside of the office and start observing more (via mailing lists/blogs). This will contribute greatly to the first item in my new creed.

Posted in Java at Jul 11 2003, 12:11:02 PM MDT Add a Comment

Added "Comment" link to RSS Feed Thanks to Lance, my RSS feed validates once again. [Details]. Also, I added a "Comment" link to the bottom of my posts (in the RSS feed). I got the idea from Russ and I think it's a good one. In my rss.vm file, I changed:

<content:encoded><![CDATA[#showEntryText($entry)</content:encoded>

To:

<content:encoded><![CDATA[#showEntryText($entry)
#if( $website.AllowComments )
   <p align="right"> 
   <a href="$absBaseURL/page/$entry.website.user.userName?
               anchor=$entry.anchor">Add a Comment</a>
   </p>   
#end]]>
</content:encoded>

In the code above, the href should all be one one line, but in order to get NetNewsWire to render my full post, I had to split it up. Is this a bug? It seems if I have a <pre> with too many characters (>80?), then it just ends the post.

If Roller users dig this enhancement, I'll commit it to CVS. Posted in Roller at Jul 11 2003, 10:25:19 AM MDT 1 Comment

Feeling the love Thanks to Erik for choosing me as one of his favorite Java bloggers. That's quite a compliment in my book - especially from one of my favorite bloggers.

Since it's Friday, here's a little reminder. Posted in Java at Jul 11 2003, 07:01:55 AM MDT Add a Comment