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This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. Furthermore, it explains the UI and API building blocks so you understand the underpinnings of your great application.
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After a bit of research and a couple comments/e-mails, I've found that there's a few different models of Communicams. There's the MCA-25 ($100), the MC-68 ($70) and the MCA-10. What's the diff?
I went looking for the T68i's Communicam today since I'd like to get this sucker for moblogging. On Amazon, I found the T300 for $-80. That's right folks - they'll pay you $80 for buying it! Of course, they get you with the "new service activation" clause - it's $250 otherwise. If anyone knows of good prices for the Communicam, let me know. The best price I found was $140 US.
I enabled Russ's Mobblogger for this
site this evening. In fact, I'm typing this post in an e-mail (complete
with HTML). I found a couple of issues and I have a couple of
questions:
Issue #1: The FTP doesn't seem to support symlinks. I wanted to create
a symlink so the <ftpDir> would point to my /repository/images
directory. No dice. It wouldn't recognize the symlink as a directory.
As a workaround, I put a symlink in /repository to point to
~/moblog/media.
Issue #2: Moblogger uses a relative path for it's URLs in images and
other media. Right now, it's hard-coded to do <img
src="media/filename.ext" .../> I altered the
MailProcessor.java class to use a path for my media assets
of "/repository/media" so that the above symlink would work. Since
Roller uses /page/username for its sites, a relative path
wouldn't work. Maybe this could be a configuration parameter - hint,
hint ;-)
Issue #3: The script to run mobblogger on *nix didn't have
quartz.jar in the classpath. And for some reason, I had to
remove "#!/bin/sh" from the top of the file in order for it to run on my
RedHat 8 machine. And it also only runs while I'm logged in. Does
anyone know how to set this up to run constantly? Should I do it as a
cron job or something? It's just a java -cp ... command.
I might set this up on the server where this site is hosted, but it
seems to work fine on my local machine right now, so I'll just leave it
there. I doubt I'll even ever use it. For one, I don't have a camera
for my phone, and that'd be the only really cool thing to use it for.
Maybe I'll post an e-mail everyone once it awhile, but most of the posts
I want to write are pretty long. That might take a while, even with T9.
Oh well, it's still cool software and I dig it. Thanks Russ!
It actually happened yesterday, but I've seen little signs of the word being spread, so I'm here to help. Get it from the main distribution site while the mirrors catch up. I don't think it has anything I need at this point. But I'm upgrade happy, so I'll do it tomorrow.
By now, you've probably heard of JMeter. It's basically a Swing-based performance testing framework. From the struts-user list today, I found out there's a JMeter Ant Task. Sweet - looks easy to use too. Now if I could just figure out JMeter, or better yet - be tasked with actually implementing it. I've played with it a couple of times, but never long enough to get something I rely on and use.
Anthill, on the other hand, was so easy to install and use that I've set it up at home and I've automated some of my projects' build/deploy processes. I might have to add Roller to the mix. If I were real daring, I could set it up on this server and build/deploy Roller every day or so. Of course, I wouldn't keep this site up to the latest version - I'd setup a 2nd instance of Roller. Any interest in this? Or better yet, do you know anyone that's hosting an Anthill install that we can use?
This is huge for me, as I need to start working with JSP 2.0 for my own personal satisfaction (less code == more productivity). I know that Resin supports JSP 2.0 as well, but I'm familiar with Tomcat and it's free. The most I've ever done with Resin (to this point) is to install it. To my knowledge, Resin is not free (esp. when I'm running a business site like this one). Anyway, on with the e-mail from the tomcat-user mailing list.
Tomcat 5.0.1 Alpha is now available for testing.
This is actually the first real milestone of Tomcat 5, as Tomcat 5.0.0
did not include any new feature over 4.1.x other than the support for
Servlet API 2.4 drafts and JSP 2.0 drafts.
Tomcat 5.0.1 includes:
- improved performance (with additional improvements planned)
- complete montoring capabilities through JMX, with JSR 77 support
- clustering capabilities (not included with that build as a binary)
- JMX configuration capabilities
- with a lot more to come in later milestones
[Downloads]
I sat down this evening at 8 o'clock to make a few Roller updates. On my list was the following:
I'm happy to say I completed them all. I'm disappointed to say that it's now 3:30 AM and this site doesn't seem that stable. :( Oh well, hopefully it's better than before. I ended up removing a bunch of the sample apps I had hosted, as they might be contributing to my OutOfMemory errors (as far as I know).
Personally, I think the debate between Struts and WebWork is irrelevant. This is because I don't think that the Web Application frameworks are the problem. I spend most of my days getting persistence to work. Granted it's gotten a whole lot easier with Hibernate, but I've spent a lot of time tackling that learning curve in the last couple of months. Thanks to Dave Johnson and Gavin King for guiding me up the curve. I spend about 30 minutes each day writing Struts-related code, if that. More time is spent writing tests, CSS, JavaScript (the most time) and DAO's/Managers.
So the problem is my brain. If I could just get the damn thing to work right - it wouldn't matter which framework I chose, because I'd just know it. No learning curve == awesome productivity.
The WebWork guys claim to have this. Therefore, I'm interested. However, who's hiring WebWork gurus? Heh - I know - what I really need to do is learn WebWork and then I can offer an unbiased opinion. Right now, no one is offering an unbiased opinion. Patrick is heavily invested in Struts, as am I. Heck, I've written a chapter about it and I've used it on many project. Jason is invested in WebWork as he's a committer.
Baaah, I'm just gonna learn .NET - that's where the Florida Jobs are. Struts .NET and WebWork .NET - maybe I should work on getting those started. ;-) The post is meant to be read with a smile on your face - I don't want to start yet another flame war.
Gavin King has posted an interesting comparison between Hibernate's Query Language and ODMG's OQL Specification. This might be interesting if you're familiar with OQL. For me, I know SQL and using HQL is so similar to SQL that I hardly even know I'm writing it most of the time. I think HQL will become a de facto standard in the coming years. Does JDO use OQL? Is anyone even using JDO?! It's strange because the only Java projects I'm familiar with (or hear about) are the ones from Java Bloggers - and everyone seems to be migrating to Hibernate. Good idea IMO!
According to MacRumors.com, Apple should be releasing JDK 1.4.1 Final today. I sure hope so. The latest release (Developer Preview 10) has been working fairly well for me. Then again, I only do server-side Java, so I'm sure my perspective is skewed. My fingers are crossed.
