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I found a whole gobbly-gook of new Phoenix themes thanks to Matt Croydon. I'm going with Phoenity Aqua for now. This brings up another point - if you're using Windows and you're NOT using Phoenix, you're wasting your time - it makes browsing so much better.
Russ has released moblogger, which maybe exactly what I am looking for. It seems that I can use it to e-mail posts to this site.
This application runs as a background process that monitors a POP3 email account for new email, then downloads it, detaches any files such as pictures, sound or video, uses the Blogger API to post the text in the email to your blog and uses FTP to post the files to your server. Send the email from a phone and you immediately start "moblogging".
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When you send email, put your password in the subject line!! Since the blogger API doesn't support titles, this is a good place to make sure that some random person or spammer doesn't start posting to your blog by sending an email.
That's a cool way to get around the authentication problem. I think the latest blogger API does support titles, but I definitely could be mistaken. I suppose if I were an ambitious fellow, I could do some research on the bloggerDev mailing list - but I'll pass. Unfortunately, I dig titles and while I may use Russ's tool, I'll probably still have to edit/create titles. One thing I'd like to do with Roller's Editor UI is to make is WAP compatible - since it's XHTML, I could be able to create a set of JSPs with JSTL and XSL and blowee, there's your mobUI. I don't know that I'd actually ever use it though. I rarely even make phone calls on my T68i, let alone browse the web.
I haven't looked at it much or used it at all, but it sounds good.
xPetStore is a WODRA (Write Once, Deploy and Run Anywhere) implementation of Sun PetStore application based on the following opensource tools/framework:
- XDoclet
- Struts
- SiteMesh
If you're writing web applications (and you're using Struts or Webwork) and you're NOT using XDoclet (or one if it's derivatives - i.e. Middlegen), you're wasting your time (IMHO). Of course, I also believe that if you're not using Ant to build your java-based project, you're really wasting your time.
Hmmm, while over at the WebWork site, I stumbled upon this Eclipse + Resin + WebWork + Hibernate tutorial. I don't know if it's such a good idea to call your persistence layer directly from your servlets is it? Shouldn't that be in a Business Delegate - or am I losing focus of KISS and trying to follow too many patterns? Patterns give me more opportunities for Unit Testing. The only way to test this servlet would be something like Cactus, right? As always, to each his own... ;-)
It was a good night, I solved all my computer problems in the last hour! I hope this continues tomorrow when I go into the office - I'd love to figure out all the Hibernate issues I'm having. If I can pull this off (which I think I can), I should be finished with all the architectural hurdles on the project, and the rest will be easy and fun. I'll get to tweak JavaScript and CSS for a better UI, and later tweak Hibernate for a better Session management architecture. I'm hoping for a good week. Now onto how I fixed my issues, in case anyone else has these problems.
To fix my OS X problems, I used Jaguar Cache Cleaner (JCC). This fixed my Finder and Mail problems. After that, I deleted some Safari-related files in my ~/Library directory and now everything is back to normal. Hallelujah!
My wireless printer server problem was much easier to fix. All I needed to do was leave the ethernet in the little box, set an IP address on the box, and then access it through a browser to configure the wireless stuff. Unplug, shut off the printer, restart everything and I'm feeling the love...
Happy Birthday Russ - even though your birthday isn't until tomorrow here in Denver.
Speaking of Denver, it was an awesome day here - hitting almost 70 degrees in the city! Julie and I took a Abbie on her first hike at 3 Sisters Park. A good time was had by all...
I found that someone else is doing an e-mail to blog project. Probably something to keep our eyes on for GeekBlog and Roller. BTW - does any blogging software support this? Maybe we can sponge some ideas of an existing implementation. My latest idea is to use digital certificates for authentication. Should work, right? Check out digital certificates from Thawte - there's even a link to get your FREE personal email certificate. I'll bite.
Glen Smith has published A Hitchhiker's Guide to Hibernate. This looks like a nice simple intro to Hibernate. This tutorial (IMO) is a great stepping stone to demonstrate how to use XDoclet to do the same thing (it creates the mapping file for you), and also do demonstrate using a ServletFilter and ThreadLocal for obtaining the session. There have been recent postings regarding these techniques to the hibernate-devel mailing list (in case you're interested).
I also found Tom Sedge's explanation of associations on the Hibernate site - looks like I have some reading to do!
I found this nugget of information from James Duncan Davidson's blog tonight:
The big fuss since Safari was released has been the lack of tabbed browsing. I've been wanting it as well, but I've had this nagging suspicion that there may be a better way to do it. D'Arcy Norman appears to have stumbled into it. Take a look. (found via 0xdecafbad)
The screenshot from the post might inspire one to revisit using Safari over Chimera. However, if you've got a piece of #@#$! PowerBook like me, where Safari, Mail and Finder all quit are startup - it's just a hopeless dream. I'm afraid to call Apple Support b/c I doubt they can help and a re-install probably won't help either - unless I do a clean slate install. Sorry Apple, you've made it harder - not easier. It's probably a missing friggen font or something.
NOTE: The screenshot is NOT a current feature of Safari - just a mockup of how tabs might be done.
I bought a Linksys Wireless-Ready USB Print Server last week. I have a Dell TrueMobile Wireless network setup that works fine with my PowerBook and my XP machine. However, I am unable to get the print server on the wireless network - it just won't show up, and the WI-FI light on the little bastard won't light up either. It works fine when I plugin an ethernet cable - but I want wireless damnit! I'm using a Dell TrueMobile NIC, but I think that should work since it works fine in my Dell with WinXP. Any ideas?
Struts is definitely due to release 1.1 very soon. I've been using nightly builds for the last year - all very stable. There was a vote posted to the struts-dev mailing list tonight on releasing 1.1b3 as 1.1RC1 and it looks like it will pass. According to the committers, I'd expect an RC2 (with bug fixes only) in early February and a final release at the end of February. Luckily, all my clients have been confident in me and have not cared what version of Struts I was using - just that it worked. When I've found problems, I've patched them - good ol' open source. I haven't found any issues in quite some time - and when I have, the committers usually fix them the same day. Gotta love that kind of customer service. Show me a company that can do that with commercial software and I'll be impressed.
