Raible Designs

My Best Christmas Present

My best Christmas present was finding out that Baby Raible #2 is on the way! The only bad part about Julie's 2nd pregnancy is we didn't have to try very hard. Last time it took 6 months, and a great 6 months that was...

Roller Tip: Managing your Comments

I tend to get a few comments a week that I need to delete because a reader has double-posted or said something I don't care to have on my website. Up until today, it's been a pain to navigate the Roller UI and delete these comments. It's almost easier to do it through SQL. No longer - I added a "Delete Comments" link to my _day template that shows up right after the "Edit" link. I'm not using the showEntryPermaLink macro for permalinks because I prefer to show permalinks on their own page (keyed by the anchor parameter). So replace your logic to render your permalink with the following and you'll be able to delete comments easier too:

    <a href="$baseURL/page/$userName?anchor=$entry.anchor"
        title="Permanent link to this weblog entry"
        class="entrypermalink">Permalink</a>
    #if ($pageHelper.isUserAuthorizedToEdit())
        [<a href="$pageHelper.getEntryEditUrl($entry)">Edit</a>] 
        [<a href="$ctxPath/comment.do?method=delete&entryid=$entry.Id">Delete Comments</a>]
    #end

To be thorough, here is the contents of the showEntryPermaLink macro:

    <a href="$baseURL/page/$userName/#formatDate($plainFormat $entry.PubTime )#$entry.Anchor"
        title="Permanent link to this weblog entry"
        class="entrypermalink">Permalink</a>
    #if ($pageHelper.isUserAuthorizedToEdit())
        [<a href="$pageHelper.getEntryEditUrl($entry)">Edit</a>]
    #end

Missed that one - XDoclet 1.2 Released

I must've been asleep at the wheel the week before Christmas - XDoclet 1.2 Final got released (already blogged here) and I didn't notice.

I integrated OSCache's Filter into my project today and needed to order the <filter-mapping>s in my project so cacheFilter comes first. I stumbed upon the order attribute, but it appears to be XDoclet2-only feature. XDoclet 1.2 just seems to ignore it. Oh well, I guess I'll just resort to putting all my filter-mappings in an XDoclet fragment (metadata/web/filter-mappings.xml) like Roller does.

On another note, it was easy to integrate oscache since Hibernate 2.1.x ships with oscache.jar (I wonder which version it is?). If you're using AppFuse 1.2, it's in there and I encourage you to look into using it. I got inspired after reading Dave's Improving Web Application Performance and Scalability chapter in Pro JSP. I finished reading it earlier this week, and have found that it's a great reference for JSTL (and probably JSP 2.0 when I start using it).