Raible Designs

JUnit Doclet and Code that documents itself.

JUnitDoclet looks kinda cool - found via James Strachan. It generates skeletons of TestCases based on your application source code. And it supports you to reorganize tests during refactoring. Nice - maybe we should use this on Roller and see if we can learn anything.

One thing we were discussing on the roller-development list today was if it's possible to generate generate documentation straight from our javadocs. I'd like to see something similar to javadocs, but easier for the non-programmer types to use and understand.

New Aqua Theme!

I added a new Aqua theme this morning - click here to try it. I don't know if I like it, it's a little bright. I hope you like it though, and feel free to send me any suggestions for other themes.

Roller 0.9.6-rc2?

I did a bunch of work this morning to eliminate any and all javascript errors on the editor UI and also some XHTML-compliance stuff:

• Now you should get focus set on the first form element in each form - a nice usability enhancement.
• I adjusted the stylesheet for the editor UI to color links that had been visited from purple to a faded blue - looks a little better.
• I changed the editor menu (the part with the blue background) to not change colors for links that had already been visited. I did this because these are the links you will visit all the time, and why change their color? It looks better this way, at least I think so.
• Updated the div id's used to render the expandable folders feature - so validation now succeeds.
• Updated the index.jsp (list of user site's) page to be sortable. Good ol' display tag library has this built in!

Good Stuff Tomorrow.

I can't wait to hear Russell's rant. In Roller News, I found that the expanding folders seen on this site - while they work - do not validate. The javascript doesn't need to care that I just used the folder names as ids, but the validator does. So I'll experiment with changing those to plus signs (+) or maybe a dash (-). Also, I need to fix the editor UI. I should have time to do this tomorrow.

Roller 0.9.6-rc1, Issue #2.

The good news is that the upgrade is complete and you're lookin' at it! The bad news if I've found a few more bugs - they're in my code though, so I'll fix them.

1. When you load the Website Settings screen, a javascript error occurs when trying to set focus on the "name" textbox. I think this is because there is a hidden field called "name" as well as a displayed one. Dave, do we need this hidden field?
2. The text on the tabs in the editor have too much of a margin underneath them, I will fix this and check it in.

Roller 0.9.6-rc1, Issue #1.

The web.xml file does not contain the tag library definitions. I verified this in both in this download and in CVS. It looks like the tablibs.xml file is missing actually :( BTW, there was a bug in the file that used to be there - it was referring to struts.tld and struts-form.tld which are both from Struts v0.5. I removed struts.tld on this site and replaced struts-form with struts-html.

Roller Upgrade.

So the 4 a.m. bit didn't work - I hit snooze too many times. I think I'll try to do it during the JSF Chat this morning.

Roller 0.9.6-rc1 appears to be ready.

I'll probably get up early (4 a.m.) and install this - it's a little last right now (11 p.m.). Looks great though - you shouldn't see any major changes tomorrow, just my 500 error page if I'm not done yet ;-)

Don't Forget the JSF Chat at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow.

Roller Upgrade Tempting.

I'm tempted to upgrade to Roller 0.9.6-rc1, but if it's going to change in the next few hours/days, I'd hate to have to update everything twice. So I guess I'll wait. It's actually quite a chore for me to upgrade (an hour or so) because I've customized the web.xml for a private weblog, and I've put symlinks all over to point to other sites and skins.

Roller 0.9.6 looks good.

I did a clean checkout from CVS, downloaded this site to my Mac and rebuilt everything from scratch. No problems - even the upgrade script worked flawlessly - less that fact that I still had my temp tables from the last upgrade. Problems I saw in IE/Mac where: 1) the <jsp:plugin> tag doesn't seem to work to render the new editor applet, maybe I should revert back to using the <applet> tag, 2) javascript errors in the editor UI when trying to set focus on hidden elements. Actually this is a Struts bug since it writes the javascript for setting focus. However, the javascript has a check for type != "hidden" - so who knows. It works fine in Windows, so I'll fix it if we get some complaints from Mac users.