Are you going to JavaOne in a few weeks? If you are, you'll want to know all about the good parties. So far, I've heard the SolarMetric/Tangosol Party is Tuesday night, but don't know if it's been renamed to the BEA/Tangosol Party. I've heard same time, same place.
On Wednesday night, there's a GlassFish BOF at 5:00, a Struts BOF at 5:30 (in the pavilions) and our Geronimo Live Party from 6-9. You'll need to pre-register to get into the Geronimo Party. Luckily, you can easily do that by clicking on the image below.
The party is at the swanky W Hotel, which is right across the street from Moscone. It's sponsored by the following Geronimo Supporters:
Any other good parties you know of at JavaOne?
It's time for another CSS Framework Design Contest Update. The contest will officially end this weekend (Sunday night), but hopefully people will continue to contribute designs after that. After the initial deadline passes, I'll send out a vote to the AppFuse CSS Mailing List. If you have a better idea of how to handle voting, I'm all ears. Maybe we should use JIRA?
I spent a few late nights last week converting some of Andreas Viklund's Templates to use the CSS Framework. All the ones I converted, along with many other contest entries, can be seen at http://css.appfuse.org/themes.
For many of these, I've replaced the default forms.css with one that has CSS from Wufoo.com. If you'd like to include a similar form in your entry, just copy the <form>s from form.html into your own page.
I've also looked at incorporating the CSS Table Gallery, but found many of the designs to be pretty ugly. Nevertheless, most of them work with the displaytag, so I might include some of them in the future. In the meantime, if you want to see what they look like, go to css.appfuse.org/users.html (user/pass: mraible/tomcat). Change the "css" parameter in the URL to match a table's stylesheet, and you should see what it looks like.
To answer a few questions I received earlier today:
Does an entry have to contain all possibilities/layouts?
No. I've come to realize that it's easier to only accomodate one layout. If users really like your design, hopefully they'll morph it to a different layout sometime in the future. If you look at the Andreas themes I converted, they only have a main page and a form. They'll likely be enhanced in the future for form elements, calendars, tables, etc. - but that should be pretty easy (and I'm willing to do that work).
Am I "allowed" to overwrite some settings in the different layout CSS for different settings, depending on which layout css is used beside the layout according stuff? For example settings (appearance, design) for the main navigation and so on?
Yes. You can change any of the CSS files you like. The only thing that needs to remain constant is the HTML - and then only the ids and order of <div>s, etc. needs to be the same. The general idea we're hoping for is to put your "theme" in a directory and then refer to it dynamically as part of the showcase. We're in the process of enhancing the showcase site to use the same HTML pages for all themes.
Don't forget about the prizes: an iPod (60GB), an iPod (30GB) and a 2GB Nano. In addition, you could use your cool new design for the CSS Reboot.
I don't normally post gigs on this site, but I do when they're good rates, and the person hiring is a friend of mine. Here's one in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle):
- 5+ years of experience with Java and J2EE required including EJB, JMS, and JSP/Servlet, required.
- 3+ years of experience with UML, SOAP, XML/XSL, SQL, Struts.
- 1+ years experience working with external client on projects.
- Experience applying design patterns and OO best practices required.
- Experiencing writing use cases and producing design documentation required.
- Experience developing on Unix platforms required, preferably RedHat Linux.
- Required application experience: BEA Weblogic, Tomcat, Apache.
- Desirable application experience: Maven, Struts, Spring, MySQL, Oracle.
- Desirable methodology experience: Refactoring, Agile, Scrum.
- Desirable additional skills: WML, WAP, XHTML, XSL, XML Schema, SSL, HTTP, Perl.
Let me know if you're interested and I'll forward you the full job description and contact person's information.
