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From the other Matt:
Russ got the #mobitopia IRC Links page up and running. So far today, my favorite links are:
I dig the java.com site - the layout/look is very cool IMO. Christina must be making a bundle from Sun, eh?
As reported by Matt and Russ (via e-mail), my RSS Feed had some issues. Moments after receiving Russ's e-mail, I shot an e-mail to the roller-dev team. Dave fixed the problem, I updated my site - and my feed is fixed. Thanks to all that discovered and repaired - you guys rock!
I might as well mirror this list from the great Cactus guru Vincent Massol.
Here are some persons that will be blogging from JavaOne 2003
Update: I added a link in the top-left for JavaOne Blogs. I will continue to add to this list as I find them.
Update 2: You can also checkout the webcasts.
From Matt Croydon:
Thanks to Russ and the guys at #mobitopia, here's an Inquirer article on the JBoss fork/coup:
8:00 am -- Seven consultants for The
JBoss Group publicly announced the immediate termination of their
contracts and the foundation of their new company, Core Developers Network.
Their charter "is to provide a commercial infrastructure to enable open
source contributors to deliver their professional expertise to the
marketplace, independent of their contributions to open source
projects".
For some reason, reading the article made my heart beat a little faster. Good? Bad? Who cares! It's engrossing!
Matt Kruse's JavaScript Toolbox is awesome. So good, in fact, that I've actually made a donation (small, but nevertheless, a donation). Today, I noticed a new script: Draggable IFRAMEs. I dig it. Don't know that I'll ever use it, but I've always liked drag n' drop examples for the web. While they are cool, I've found that sometimes a true popup window is much easier.
While plowing through the 5000+ e-mails at work this morning, I tripped over the QuartzPlugin for Struts. This looks very cool - a way to configure scheduled tasks (i.e. a cron job) as part of your web application.
The QuartzPlugin for Struts allows you to automatically configure and start a Quartz scheduler upon initialization of your Struts application. It also places itself in your application context to make a scheduler available within your actions. That is, in addition to statically scheduled events like "every six hours," you can dynamically schedule events from Struts actions for "24 hours from now".
Now I just hope I get a chance to utilize this bad boy in the near future.
I leave for the airport in less than 5 hours. First I'm off to New York for my Grandpa Joe's funeral, then I fly back to Denver on Sunday and hop on a plane on Monday for vacation in Florida. I'm kindof disappointed my laptop didn't make it back from Apple in time for this trip, but it's probably a blessing more than anything.
Not having a laptop, my productivity addiction will go unsatisfied (but my stress level will subside) and I'll likely feel out of touch with Java and technology when I return. However, I hope that I turn into my old self on this trip - whom I affectionately refer to as Montana Matt. An easy-going, low-stress guy who doesn't care about much outside of family, friends and having a good time. I'd like to smile a lot, quite worrying about work, and forget about all the open source projects that need releases. I plan on laughing a lot, sleeping in every day, and tipping back a few pints with family and friends. I probably won't be reading any blogs, but I do plan on doing a little mophoto-ing.
See you in a couple of weeks - normal operations will likely resume around the end of the month.
Yakuu provides a good comparison of abstract classes versus interfaces. This is an interested read for me, since I've only started using both of these in the last year - and only because I've seen/copied/extended other programmer's code. After using them for that long, I have to say that there's still doesn't seem to be much of a point. Of course, I'm rarely using mutliple inheritence and none of my projects have gone through a major refactoring. I'm willing to bet that Dave is happy he decided to use interfaces in Roller. The Castor -> Hibernate conversion probably would've sucked without them - or did they create more work?!
Dave has released Roller 0.9.7.2. Get it while its hot! This site has been rockin' (IMO) since I moved to the new server. In fact, I haven't had to restart Tomcat once since I started it on Wednesday. That's a huge improvement considering it used to restart itself due to OutOfMemory errors 3+ times per day. Just goes to show that software is not always the one to blame - damn hardware - I'm just glad that I decided to try a new box before moving to a new provider.
I've added this to my Java channel for all you java.blogs readers. ;-)
