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I'm getting ready to hop on a plane at the Boise airport. I'll be stopping in Denver to pick up our puppy and then flying to Ft. Lauderdale to attend The Spring Experience conference. Should be a fun weekend. I'll be staying on Singer Island, which sounds pretty nice after being in cold Idaho all week.
Update: It doesn't look like I'm going to make Rod's Keynote tonight. Hopefully someone else will blog it.
This week, I'm in Boise, Idaho teaching a Spring Fundamentals course. It's cold here, just like it is in Denver this week.
I'm heading out early Thursday morning (Country Bry is teaching a Hibernate class that day) for The Spring Experience in Florida.
I'll be staying with Julie's Mom in West Palm Beach, so hopefully the commute to the show won't be too bad. My AppFuse session is on Saturday night, but I'm expecting a light showing after Terracotta's recent announcement. Jonas Bonér is doing a session at the same time as mine. Maybe if I bring a bunch of beer, I can still draw a crowd. 
This afternoon, Julie and I are heading downtown to checkin to The Westin Tabor Center. Tonight is my company's Holiday Party and we figured it was a good excuse to spend the night out. James Goodwill turned me on to the idea about a year ago. The idea is to take your spouse "on vacation" in the town you live in. It's quite cool, because you rarely get a chance to enjoy the town you live in. We're only doing one night, but Jim recommends you do 2 or 3. The last time we did a vacation in Denver, it was our anniversary and we had a blast.
For the party tonight, we'll be dining at La Fondue, with the Parade of Lights just happens to pass in front of. After that, we'll all be heading to Denverginity. It should definitely be a fun night!
From Jacob's blog:
Facelets 1.1.12 was just uploaded to Java.net and includes many small bug fixes for JSF 1.1 (MyFaces 1.1.4) and JSF 1.2 (RI 1.2_03b5).
Download Here
This release is considered 'draft' until users call it stable for production use. More information is found over at Facelets' web site.
In most cases, when an open source project says "more information can be found on our website", you expect to go to the website and see more information. Not so with Facelets. All I could find was this announcement. How about a detailed list of bug fixes?
Update: I found the magic link on the mailing list which I subscribe to with Nabble's RSS Feed.
Earlier this week, I needed to create timeline graphics for my What's new in AppFuse 2.0 presentation. I found a Timeline script for OmniGraffle and was able to create some pretty nifty images with it. Below are the two timelines I created, one for the History of AppFuse and one for The Future.
I'll be delivering this presentation at our seminar later this afternoon. With free knowledge and a complementary happy hour afterwards, why would you miss it?
It looks like Denver weather will make it interesting for attendees to get downtown. Hopefully most folks will take the light rail in. That's my plan.
After seeing Rod Johnson's post about Spring 2.0's "p" namespace, I'm wondering if it's something we should include in AppFuse? I don't think it's quite as intuitive as <property name="">, but I'm curious to see what users think. The biggest reason against using it is (AFAIK) neither Eclipse nor IDEA will give you code-completion on (whereas they will for <property name="">).
In other news, Matt Fleming has an excellent writeup on how he optimized AppFuse (Spring MVC flavor) to handle pages with large forms. His form was 38 MB worth of HTML when saved to disk so I doubt everyone will need this, but it certainly is interesting information. If there's enough demand, we'll make Matt's suggestions available options in an upcoming release.
Raible Road Trip #11 was an excellent vacation. Our plan to drive through the night worked out splendidly. Not only did I make it to 7:30 a.m. (with the help of a bit of Red Bull), but I got to jam to my favorite tunes all night long. We left at 11 p.m. and I handed over the reigns to Julie just outside of Billings. She drove for the next 3 hours, and I took over again for the final 3. Total time: 14 hours.
We arrived at the cabin at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Actually, I should say we got stuck at the cabin at 1:00 because we made it all the way up the "bumpy road", but didn't make the last hill. 40 minutes later and at 40 miles an hour, I made it up the last hill. The next 3 days at the cabin were great. We took Cookie the Dog and she loved it as much as the kids did. The drive home over the last 2 days wasn't nearly as pleasant as the drive there, but listening to "Little Einstein's" on the DVD player is never as much fun as listening to your favorite tunes.
Click on the images below to view pictures from The Cabin.
The next couple weeks will likely be hectic. This week I'll be writing AppFuse 2.0 documentation. Next week I'll be delivering a Spring + Hibernate class in Boise, Idaho with Country Bry and Scott from Virtuas. Then I'll be flying to The Spring Experience on Thursday for a weekend in paradise. Better yet, I'll be spending the following week in Florida on vacation. 
If you happen to live near Denver, you won't want to miss our Lightweight Java For 2007 Seminar this week. It starts this Wednesday at 1:00 PM. We'll be doing talks on JPA, Spring 2.0, JSF + Ajax and AppFuse 2.0. The seminar is free and should be a good opportunity to learn about what's hot in Java these days.
All attendees will receive a complementary copy of a book on Java
Technologies, seminar materials, and will be entered into a raffle
for an iPod and other great prizes!
Directly following the event, join the Virtuas gang for
complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres at Rock Bottom Brewery from
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Sometime before midnight tonight, we'll be departing on Raible Road Trip #11. This time we're going to The Cabin for Thanksgiving. Of course, we'd prefer to fly, but neither ticket prices nor arrival times are cooperating, so we're doing the road trip.
It's a 15 hour drive, which is pretty brutal for the kids.
In an attempt to alleviate their pain, and get there in one fell swoop, we're going to try something new. We're going to leave at night (as soon as Julie's done with her Barenaked Ladies concert) and drive straight through. I'm in the midst of conditioning myself for the drive. What does that mean? It means I slept in yesterday, took a nap in the afternoon, and then stayed up all night. The good news is I got quite a bit of work done. The bad news is I didn't get nearly as much done as I'd hoped.
As I write this, it's almost fully light out. I should probably hit the sack and get plenty of rest for tonight. The Cabin doesn't have internet access nor cell phone service, so I'll be completely out of touch for a week. Should be nice.
Thanks to Technorati, I found that Chinese articles on AppFuse happen to be some of the most popular on IBM developerWorks. Not only has 7 Simple Reasons been translated, but another article titled ?? AppFuse ???? J2EE ?? ("AppFuse quickly built using J2EE Application" according to Google) was written just last month. It's great having non-English speakers using AppFuse - it insures we have excellent internationalization support!
Update: I'm aware the Chinese characters didn't come through on this post. I'm working on getting the MySQL database powering this site to support UTF-8.
