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4 Flights in one day

I'm setting a personal record today - 4 flights in one day. I'm sitting in Denver's Airport right now, having just flown from Portland via Seattle. I'm getting on another plane in 15 minutes to fly to Traverse City via Chicago. I left Portland at 10:00 this morning and arrive in Michigan at 11:30 tonight. One of my good friends (and a little brother in my fraternity), is getting married tomorrow night. Should be a fun weekend.

Wanna hear from me over the weekend? I'll be blogging over on JRoller, where Jim thinks he can blog more days than me over the next month.

Pretty URLs in Tapestry

It looks like Tapestry 3.1 will have pretty URLs - which will make it much easier to use CMA. Identity Theft 911 has recently converted their 300+ page website from JSP to Tapestry. If you click through the site, you'll notice that the URLs what you'd expect to see, rather than Tapestry's ugly URLs. The best part is they explain how they did it, and Howard loves it:

Wow! You've prototyped Tapestry 3.1 for me Only had a chance to look at the home page (I'm at a client) but it does look sweet.

The Cornbinder

Bruce and I drove this up to OSCON from Salem last night. It's made by International or IHC which stands for International Harvester Corp. They made farm equipment before they made trucks including "Corn Binders". I've also heard them called "Harvest Queens".

My dad's '78 International.

Moblogger re-written with Spring

About a month ago, someone sent me a re-write of Moblogger that was done using Spring. The other night I cleaned out my inbox (select all, delete) and then realized yesterday that I'd deleted the e-mail the guy had sent me. If you're out there and reading this blog - please send it again, leave a comment, or shoot me an e-mail. I'd love to use your code in place of what's already there.

Your order has shipped

Let's hope it's in Denver when I get home on Sunday...

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Item Product   Product                        Total   Total   
     Number    Description                    Ordered Shipped 
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001 M9178LL/A  APPLE CIN HD DISPLAY 23" FLAT      1     1 

Yeah baby - I've been waiting to get one of these bad boys for years!

Off to OSCON

I'm off to OSCON - plane leaves in 2 hours - sheite - I'd better get going!! My dad is picking Bruce and I up from the airport this morning and then we're going to proceed to enjoy a good Oregon Micro Brewery and head for a hike in Silver Falls State Park. Conference starts tomorrow - should be a fun trip!

Get your designs for free

From Niel:

While I'm confident in my web-based application development skills, I really suck at web design. Fortunately there is Open Source Web Design which provides hundreds of web designs to help people like me. Most of the recent entries are CSS-based designs that show-off the power of CSS.

I suck at web design too, so I dig sites like this. The CSS Zen Garden is another great resource. Their designes are free for non-commercial use. If you contact the designers, you might get permission to use them like I did.

Spider-Man at IMAX

Today we managed to rope our old neighbors (Jenny and Jeff) into watching Abbie while we went to see Spider-Man 2. I was a bit surprised when they guy said "That's be 23 bucks please" - but then I realized it was in the IMAX Theater! I've never seen a real movie in an IMAX theater, and it was awesome! Definitely worth the money. Julie didn't like it because the seats leaned so far back and "chunkey monkey #2" made the position painful for her. Only 6 weeks left until that little sucker pops out. I was 9.5 pounds when I was born - let's hope this one is more Abbie's size (7.2).

If you're interested, here's a listing of IMAX's carrying Spider-Man.

[House Project] Drywall has started

It's been a while since my last update on the house project. The builder says they'll be done before the baby's born (Labor Day). Julie believes him, and I think it'll be take until November. Nevertheless, it's coming along. Wired with fiber. Click below to zoom in and view closeups. Sure has changed a lot, eh?

Eclipse Tips

From my Eclipse HowTo for Spring Live:

TIP: In order to clean up the project view in Eclipse, you can hide the files you don't need. First of all, make sure you're in the Java Perspective (Window → Open Perspective). Then click the little (down) arrow in the top right corner of the Package Explorer pane. Select Filters, check the "Name Filter Patterns" and type "*.jar" (no quotes) in the text field. Then in the list of elements, scroll down and check Referenced Libraries. Click OK to continue.

Another useful Eclipse trick is to use abbreviated package names. You probably won't need it on this project, but its nice on projects where you're inflicted with super.long.package.name.syndrome. Go to Window → Preferences → Java → Appearance. Check the "Compress all package names" checkbox and type "1." (no quotes) in the text field.

Want more tips? Ask Bill.