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This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. Furthermore, it explains the UI and API building blocks so you understand the underpinnings of your great application.
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Today's upgrades include Roller (to version 0.9.8) and a new PowerBook. I picked up a 17-incher from my local Apple Store this afternoon. It's big and awesome. As for the Roller upgrade, I've only found one bug so far (related to previewing themes). Hope y'all had a good weekend.
I began to learn a whole lot about Ant from Erik Hatcher. Good guy, great words - fun stuff.
I figured out a way to make your Struts' app have URLs like the following:
http://raibledesigns.com/weblog?method=edit http://raibledesigns.com/weblog.jsp?method=edit http://raibledesigns.com/weblog.html?method=edit http://raibledesigns.com/weblog.php?method=edit http://raibledesigns.com/weblog.asp?method=edit
Might be a nifty little trick to try. Pump out a version of Roller with this feature enabled and you could say you made a .NET version! ;-)
Here's how:
Just a friendly reminder...
1. I created a RequestFilter that maps to /*
2. This filter checks to see if request.getServletPath() matches any of the
action paths in struts-config.xml. If so, it forwards to the action.
3. As an added feature, I added a set of allowed extensions to this
filter's init parameters. So far I have .jsp,.html,.asp,.cfm (using .jsp
ensures no one links to them directly, MVC enforced!) - so marketing can
choose what technology they want to convey ;-)
This seems to work great. For example, I have an "advancedSearch" action
defined as follows:
<action path="/advancedSearch"
type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"
parameter=".advancedSearch"/>
(ForwardAction will eventually be replaced, if necessary, with a real
action). This allows all of the following URLs to work:
http://site.com/do/advancedSearch (works with Struts by default)
http://site.com/advancedSearch
http://site.com/advancedSearch.html + all other extensions listed.
More information (including source code) can be found on the struts-user mailing list.
I did some refactorings of AppFuse yesterday - inspired by an e-mail I received from Jon
. I basically de-coupled my Actions from Hibernate - tossing around a connection object in the constructors of my Managers and DAOs (rather than the method signatures). A little more casting, but no noticeable performance difference. I'll upload the source shortly.
Update: - Source has been released.
Crucial.com always seems to have the best prices on RAM - and today I found its no different for the PowerBook - for 512MB, it's $150 vs. $300 from Apple. That's Apple for you - trying to make a buck where ever they can - not a bad business practice when you have so many cult-like followers.
Next week: The Great American Beer Festival. I just got an e-mail saying they've accepted me as a volunteer on the Brew Crew. Should be a good time.
While I'm seriously thinking about a new PowerBook, the more important item on the agenda is refreshing my desktop. It's a P4 1.5 GHz (1 MB RAM) Dell Dimension 8100. I like Windows XP and I love writing Java in it - moreso than any other OS (really!). So I owe it to myself to speed things up a bit on my primary development box. So I went searching on eBay and found I can get a much better machine (almost twice as fast) for only $800. Do you think that's a good deal? I sure do...
I called my local Apple Store today to see if they had any new PowerBooks in. They did (though they've sold out of their 15" with combo/super drives for the day), and now I'm here test-driving the 17" with 1.33 Mhz and 512 MB RAM. It wouldn't be right if I didn't compare this machine against these performance numbers. So here goes:
I'm not as disappointed as I thought I'd be. Good thing I left my wallet in the car!