Matt RaibleMatt Raible is a writer with a passion for software. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

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10+ YEARS


Over 10 years ago, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I've authored books, had kids, traveled the world, found Trish and blogged about it all.

The Matrix at Red Rocks

This looks pretty cool - they're showing "The Matrix" at at Red Rocks. Not the new one, the old one - which I've been longing to see again ever since I saw Reloaded. For those of you not familiar with Red Rocks, it's an awesome natural ampitheater - and it's only minutes from my house (15 minutes on a bike). I just might have to go - looks like fun.

Red Rocks

Posted in General at Jun 19 2003, 04:57:33 PM MDT Add a Comment

Sending POJOs to the UI instead of ActionForms

I'm starting to think that my Struts-based apps could be simplified if I didn't convert POJOs to Action Forms when retrieving them from the database. By this, I mean to say that I'd like to retrieve and display POJOs on the UI, and then capture their information (as Action Forms) when saving the form. The reason I want to do this is because of Hibernate's Lazy Loading feature and formatting Dates. Basically, Hibernate allows you to load children of an object lazily (i.e. resumes of a User), when the getResumes() method is called. I've created [a page|POJOsToForms] on my wiki to explain further and continue this discussion. Of course, you can always leave comments here if you'd rather - they cross-reference each other. The [RollingWiki|http://www.rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RollerWikiPlugin] rocks!

Posted in Java at Jun 19 2003, 01:52:23 PM MDT 3 Comments

www.mail-archive.com

If you're doing development on an open source project, I recommend that you get your mailing list archived by mail-archive.com. It's pretty easy to setup and offers a nice google-like search interface. I recently added struts-apps, struts-menu-user and the display tag lists. I hope this makes it a lot easier for folks using these applications. I might even add Roller, but I figured Dave could handle that if he really wants it (it's already being done by gname anyway).

Either way, gname or mail-archive.com, if you're using a SourceForge mailing list, you'd better get a better archiving system b/c SourceForge's sucks! Why? No searching! What good is an archive without searching?!

Posted in Java at Jun 19 2003, 12:51:44 PM MDT 2 Comments

JSPWiki's RSS Feed

JSPWiki has a pretty slick RSS Feed. If you subscribe to it, it will show you the diffs for the pages that have changed since you last updated the feed. Now that is cool! All wiki's should have this feature IMO. If you're running JSPWiki, and you don't have an RSS feed, I think it's time to get one (hint, hint).

Posted in Java at Jun 18 2003, 05:25:57 PM MDT

The next Denver JUG meeting is going to be good

I'm really pumped to attend the next DJUG meeting on Wed., July 9th. There's going to be a celebration for being selected as a top 25 JUG, and Sue Spielman is going to be covering what's new in J2EE 1.4. It should be a good time for sure - who's up for beers afterwards?

Posted in Java at Jun 18 2003, 11:29:58 AM MDT 1 Comment

Pictures from White Ranch Yesterday

Nice Single Track

Jodie on the single track.

My Gary Fisher Sugar 3+

My Sugar Momma.

The Hill

Tony on "The Hill."

Posted in General at Jun 18 2003, 06:48:33 AM MDT 5 Comments

New Roller Feature: Comment Subscribers

I added a new feature to Roller last night. Now, if you have e-mailing of comments enabled, all the folks that have commented on a post will be cc'd when a new comment comes in. Here are the features/issues it currently has:

  • (Feature) Now a URL appears on the bottom of the e-mail with a link to comment on the post.
  • (Issue) Weblog owner is cc'd when they post a new comment. Since it's always "to" them, there's no need to cc them. I just noticed this after replying to another post - however, I only received one e-mail, so who knows.
  • (Issue) When a commentor does not specify an e-mail address, the from address is set to "[email protected]." I don't know if this is the best way, but it works for this initial cut.

You must specify an e-mail address to be cc'd on comments (of course). Feel free to give it a whirl.

Posted in Roller at Jun 18 2003, 06:26:08 AM MDT 4 Comments

[Display Tag] Now we're talking...

We're starting to get some real activity over on the display tag library project. I have to admit, I've done nothing - which is why it's even cooler that other folks are. Mathias joined the team and went on a rampage squashing bugs and formatting code. Then along came a guy named Fabrizio (no blog) who re-wrote the whole thing ~ demo. Even better - it's XHTML and CSS compliant.

There's even an editable table prototype being looked at. John York (no blog) has also done a lot in re-writing the library, and has his own version that I'm hoping to post soon. Nice work gents!

Posted in Java at Jun 17 2003, 03:16:20 PM MDT 11 Comments

A nice quote

...this year's J1 taught me that "home" is not a place, but a feeling. (That's so '82!)

I couldn't have said it better myself. It's why I'm so pumped to visit the cabin for the 4th. I'll make sure to take lots of pictures...

Posted in General at Jun 17 2003, 01:27:51 PM MDT

[ANNOUNCE] Hibernate 2.0.1 Released!

The Hibernate Team never stops producing. They've released 2.0.1, which fixes the following bugs:

Changes in version 2.0.1 (17.6.2003)
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* fixed some problems with new dialect-specific LIMIT clauses
* improved parsing of collection where attribute
* made one-to-many bags more efficient (they are really sets!)
* allowed type="calendar" for  properties
* fixed a bug with locking a versioned composite-id class
* refresh() may now take a transient instance
* added ProxoolConnectionProvider (Martin Crawford)
* fixed some minor JCA issues (Mike Mosiewicz)
* fixed a bug with FETCH and sorted associations
* improved performance of SchemaUpdate tool (Teodor Danciu)
* fixed a bug in Configuration.addFile(String) (Ken Geis)
* tidied up and documented hbm2ddl package (esp. Ant tasks)
* deprecated CounterGenerator in favor of IncrementGenerator
* improved logging during initialization

Posted in Java at Jun 17 2003, 07:14:37 AM MDT 2 Comments