Entity bean bloat

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I'm currently getting acquainted with JBoss, SpringSource Application Platform, JBoss Seam and Spring Framework. One thing that amazes me is the amount of code required for some simple O/R mapping, or I am missing something? I hope to be wrong about this, but it seems like an EJB3 "entity bean" requires, ...

Making a demo login with restful_authentication

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

In order for someone to give The Project (Min Packning) a try it was required to register an account and provide a valid e-mail address. This is an obstacle, so I wanted to add a way for people to try the service without registering. It was actually very easy. I ...

The ThoughtWorks Anthology

Friday, February 8th, 2008

According to the latest mail I got from The Pragmatic Bookshelf, one of their upcoming titles is The ThoughtWorks Anthology, but I couldn't find anything about it on the web. Out of pure curiosity I've sent an inquisitive mail to see if I can find out more about it. ...

My first AJAX!

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Probably years after everyone else, I've made my first AJAX-enabled web page today. As I do this from within Ruby on Rails, it was virtually painless to remove or replace a piece of HTML. My next AJAX step was to get in_place_editing working. The first problem was the InvalidAuthenticityToken and the ...

Printing “Things” in The Project

Monday, January 28th, 2008

The Project will allow users to create and edit something I call "Things" in this article. One feature that is quite high on the priority list is to be able to print Things. I found the article “Print this page” with Ruby on Rails but I wanted a separate page ...

Web design and SimpleSidebar

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I found a suitable initial web design for The Project at Open Source Web Design. That's a really great site! Now I'm learning about layouts in Ruby on Rails. As suggested in the Midnight Oil blog (Beds are burning?) article SimpleSidebar - If you have sidebars, you need this plugin ...

Rant about Ruby on Rails

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Zed Shaw rants quite a bit, stating that Rails Is A Ghetto. Most things I read about RoR are good things, and I guess that some of it is written by the people that Zed grumbles at. It is quite refreshing to hear other opinions, even if they might not ...

Born in 1979

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I just read that David Heinemeier Hansson, of Ruby on Rails fame, also was born in 1979. He took a very different route, but he is probably more of an entrepreneur than I am. Today I will move to another project at the client's department. Change is good! :-)

The humble beginnings of The Project

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Yesterday and today I took some time to work on The Project. (Tomorrow I'm back at work, so much for a holiday project.) I tossed aside requirements on a strictly Swedish interface, so the controller names are in English and I don't use Ola Bini's Swedish Rails yet. Honestly I ...

I want to read “Peopleware” again

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Bruce Eckel recommends Peopleware — Productive Projects and Teams (by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister) in his recent weblog entry The Mythical 5%. When I ordered a bunch of book recently I was thinking of including both The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks and Peopleware, but I didn't. It ...