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Wednesday October 22, 2003

Blogging leads to Free Book This blogging thing rocks. Today I got one of the books I've been meaning to buy - for FREE! Check out the following e-mail I received from Manning:

Hello Matt:

We are contacting you regarding Vincent Massol's new book, JUnit in Action, which Manning will be publishing in November. Vincent mentioned that you might be interested in certain parts of the book which relate to topics recently discussed on your blog http://www.raibledesigns.com/page/rd. There is a chapter on unit testing tag libraries.

He has asked us to offer you a complimentary copy of the PDF ebook which just became available today. We hope you will find it of interest.

Sweet! Thanks Vincent! I read the chapter on unit testing tag libraries - very clear and to the point. Unfortunately, for tags with bodies, you still have to verify HTML, so tagunit might be better for these. I like the coverage on the Maven Plugin for Cactus and also how to use JSTL's ExpressionEvaluatorManager for reading tag attributes. The link I found, the chapter has code samples.

I've never really liked eBooks, but I have to admit, this is pretty damn convenient. Especially since I tend to pack around 10-20 books to each new contract. What about sharing? Can I let co-workers borrow my PDF like I let them borrow my books? Posted in Java at Oct 22 2003, 01:43:16 PM MDT 4 Comments

Panther has shipped? Apple just sent me an e-mail stating that my $20 (gotta rub it in) Panther upgrade has shipped. Fedex Tracking seems to disagree - at least as of 9:00 this morning. Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 22 2003, 08:59:34 AM MDT 3 Comments

RSS Weather Found Winer: RSS Weather. Our local news says snow this weekend, RSS Weather just says it's going to be cold. Lows in the 20s, highs in the 50s. Today - mid 80s. Posted in General at Oct 22 2003, 08:42:18 AM MDT Add a Comment

A List Apart 3.0 Web Standards Guru Zeldman has re-designed and relaunched the best web standards webzine available today (IMO, of course):

Ladies and gentlemen, A List Apart 3.0. The magazine has been redesigned from front to back. It features three XML feeds and three new articles by three of our favorite writers: Joe Clark on Facts and Opinion About Fahrner Image Replacement; Douglas Bowman on Sliding Doors of CSS; Dan Benjamin on Random Image Rotation. Much more. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]

Good stuff - there's a nice tabs article and XML Feeds for your favorite aggregator. Posted in The Web at Oct 22 2003, 08:32:30 AM MDT Add a Comment