I found out the hard way that there might be a bug in Ant 1.5.2. I'm running the following task as part of appfuse - and it generates a appfuse.zip file, and it's the correct size, but there's nothing in it. I reverted back to Ant 1.5.1 and everything worked fine.
<zip zipfile="${archive.target}.zip">
<zipfileset prefix="${webapp.name}" dir="${basedir}">
<patternset id="srcfiles">
<include name="**"/>
<exclude name="build.properties"/>
<exclude name="database.properties"/>
<exclude name="*.log"/>
<exclude name="*/**.java.txt"/>
<exclude name="${dist.dir}/**"/>
<exclude name="${build.dir}/**"/>
</patternset>
</zipfileset>
</zip>
This particular problem happened with Cygwin on Windows 2000 using JDK 1.4.1_01.
Jakarta's String Tag Library version 1.0.1 was released about a month ago. I found out today. I'm telling you here because you might be able to use it if you need to manipulate Strings for your UI. The only tag I'm using (from this library) <s:replace>, which can be very handy indeed. For
instance, a common task with JSPs is the need to replace a new-line (\n) with an HTML new-line (<br />). With the String TL, it's easy
(JSP 2.0 Syntax):
<s:replace replace="NL" with="<br />NL"
newlineToken="NL">${myForm.text}</s:replace>
Every Struts Developer should probably read Sciosorks Struts FAQ. Good stuff there. Bookmark it and use it.
I rode my bike into work for the first time this year. I got lost, so it took me 20 minutes longer than it should have. Door-to-door: 1:45. I wonder how long it'll take me to get home tonight.
Good ol' Zeldman hooks us up with some cool web stuff today. First, you gotta dig these W3C Validator buttons that are purely CSS and Text - no images. Might be a good way to reduce bandwidth. Secondly, adjacent sibling selectors are a neat way to create rules-based layouts in which elements are controlled according to their contexts.
For instance, you can make a general rule where images have no margin at the top; then make another rule that says margins have 15px of white space at the top if they are preceded by an h3 header.
Finally, he inspires us to checkout Fast Company's re-designed all XHTML and CSS site. Very cool! I especially dig the font-size switcher in the top right corner.
Then there's Russ. Could he be on to something here or just blowin' smoke?
Someday soon, people will be judged by the quality of their weblogs like the Greeks once judged a person by the quality of their oration, or in the middle ages a person was judged by their science and art and later in the 1800s by their letters.
I don't know that weblogs will ever the that popular. The problem is that computers aren't even that popular. Sure, there's a lot, but the household penetration is not where it needs to be - and how many of online users have weblogs. Not many. How many of those that have weblogs are interesting - not many. Maybe he's onto something here - and we're already doing it. We are already judging each other in this community - those that have shorter blogrolls are just judging a little more ;-)
I have a hard time believing it, but stats don't lie. I got my monthly bill from KGB Internet and discovered that I had 9 GB of traffic in March. At $.01 per extra MB, 4,062 extra megs adds up to $40.62 extra this month! It looks like the biggest bandwidth hogs are the downloads which means I'd better move everything I can over to SourceForge. I'm already up to the Silver plan, and I'm not about to pay $80/month for the Gold plan.
