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No, don’t worry… it’s not me installing Leopard on my MacBook.
My wife managed to install Leopard without much help. Everything went smooth and Leopard runs really well. First impressions are (although it lacks Java 6) quite good; I really like spaces.
One of my colleagues was however less lucky. He ended up having to do the [...]

Due to the fact that I was “optically challenged” for the past week it might have been a bit silent on my weblog. Since I’m still recovering I’m trying to keep time behind my computer as short as possible.
Normally I would have used this time to read about Leopard, and the fact that it hasn’t [...]

Yesterday the mailman brought the copy of “JBoss Seam - Simplicity and Power beyond Java EE” by Michael Juntao Yuan and Thoma Heute which I asked Finalist to order for me.
I managed to read the first two chapters. My first impression is that it’s a bit ‘jumpy’. Chapter two contains so many references [...]

Two days ago Grails reached the 1.0 milestone; the first release candidate is out. New Features inlude:

GORM features ORM DSL for advanced Mappings
Support for easy to use Filters
Tag Library Improvements - Namespaces, body variables, page scope, improved tag and more
Controllers Improvements - Multi-dimensional params object, data binding retains type conversion errors
URL Mapping Improvements - [...]

After two JSF-free years (I didn’t really enjoy myfaces at that time) I decided to get my head around Seam and JSF. My next project will consist of rebuilding a Delphi application to a multiuser Seam application; so let’s have a look at where we are!
Introduction
First of all, before I get flamed, Seam is not [...]

Once in a while I tend to use JConsole for basic profiling of a Java process.
Somehow I always forget which flag I need to set to enable remote connections to a process. And yes, I know the option is hidden somewhere on page 3 of the documentation…
You need to add the following in [...]

Various sources are reporting on Oracle putting in an offer to buy BEA for a whopping 6.7 billion dollar.
I did some projects using WebLogic, WebLogic portal and WebLogic workshop but was never really a fan of BEA. I do however like healthy appserver competition!
Somehow I feel that if Oracle actually acquires BEA, WebLogic will [...]

Some months ago I visited Aslak Hellesøys' RSpec presentation at RubyEnRails 2007. I was really intrigued by some of the concepts introduced by RSpec.
After checking out the way testing/TDD works in Grails I just had to see if my initial interest in RSpec would stand ground.
Just to recapitulate on what RSpec is:

RSpec is a framework [...]

Last couple of days I was attending the JBoss Masterclass in Rome. I learned a lot and met a let of interesting people. And I enjoyed being in Italy as well.
I'll be doing a full round-up (in Dutch) on the Masterclass for the company blog but first of all I'm going to have a [...]

A couple of days ago I wrote my first post on TDD using Grails. Now let's move on to something more interesting: testing dynamic taglibs.
In another post I showed how to create a simple tag. Which looked like this:
PLAIN TEXT
GROOVY:

import com.plink.plextile.*;

class TextileTagLib {

  TextParser textileParser

  def textile = { attrs ->

    out <<textileParser.parseTextile(attrs.text, true)

  [...]