Re: [jug-discussion] I hate getting sucked into the web ;-)

2002-11-24 Thread Drew Davidson
http://grunge.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguages.html Enjoy! I can't enjoy this too much because OGNL is not on this page :-( :-) - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [jug-discussion] Eclipse, or: More Inanity From The ResidentHobbyist

2002-12-15 Thread Drew Davidson
to be stored. You can put in the JRE extensions directory: $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520)

Re: [jug-discussion] January Presentation

2003-01-08 Thread Drew Davidson
number you think are out there) :-) - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1965

Re: [jug-discussion] January Presentation

2003-01-08 Thread Drew Davidson
L successfully as an extension language in innumerable projects and it always (and I mean ALWAYS) means reduced amounts of "garbage code". - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [jug-discussion] January Presentation

2003-01-09 Thread Drew Davidson
d does automatically given the "valueType" attribute, and storing the values somewhere, which the matrix[row][col] expression does quite succinctly). Oops. There I go again. Sorry. projects and it always (and I mean ALWAYS) means reduced amounts of "garbage code". &qu

Re: [jug-discussion] January Presentation

2003-01-09 Thread Drew Davidson
triangle pointing at them? Roll your own, that's what. As for Tapestry, I think that Howard is doing a great job. He's got the right idea architecturally and the upcoming Tapestry implementation (2.4) will go a long way toward making it greater still (with more

Re: [jug-discussion] January Presentation

2003-01-09 Thread Drew Davidson
Once you get the hang of it, it's way easier than Struts and JSP. Thanks, Nick. I think I'll take your and Tim's advice and shut the hell up about this before I actually piss someone off. I removed the rant from my site, BTW. - Drew -- +-+ < Dre

Re: [jug-discussion] January Presentation

2003-01-09 Thread Drew Davidson
 I don't want a public lynching. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1965\ | Mobile: (520) 405-2967 \ +-+

Re: [jug-discussion] January Presentation

2003-01-09 Thread Drew Davidson
childish, however). - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1

Re: [jug-discussion] Brain Dead

2003-01-11 Thread Drew Davidson
u are trying to do?  There is also Class.getConstructors() where you can call other than the default no-arg constructor (if you need to pass parameters to the constructor). - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ |

Re: [jug-discussion] JDK 1.4 and XML?

2003-01-15 Thread Drew Davidson
//www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-databdopt/ . Part 2, with benchmarks, should be published next week. That's the XML stuff I was talking about last night. - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +---

Re: [jug-discussion] Vote for JUG Logo

2003-02-12 Thread Drew Davidson
+1 for TJUG green gecko diagonal by Tim Colson - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520)

Re: [jug-discussion] Fun with ANT - classpath debug & xml with javactask

2003-05-27 Thread Drew Davidson
Erik, it took you 26 minutes to reply to this.  You're slipping :-) Erik Hatcher wrote: On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 02:22  PM, Tim Colson wrote: This seems simple, but I'm missing it in the manual and Google is no help. :(  You didn't buy "the definitive guide", huh?  That would be

Re: [jug-discussion] Re: More Fun with ANT

2003-05-29 Thread Drew Davidson
Thomas Hicks wrote: As long as we're doing an Ant clinic...I have a problem which is bugging me...when I use Ant to build and then get an exception with a stack trace (yes, it happens), the location of the error (for code compiled with Ant) cannot be determined. This seems to be some Javac task fl

Re: [jug-discussion] For those who haven't seen this yet - Apacheannounces J2EE stack

2003-08-14 Thread Drew Davidson
stuff together and make it work. I think they are setting themselves up for failure. - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |

Re: [jug-discussion] ANT question

2004-01-07 Thread Drew Davidson
ng here. I really do want it to get better! - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966

Re: [jug-discussion] ANT question

2004-01-07 Thread Drew Davidson
didn't exist already. The answer you gave me was very insightful about the Ant community - most people don't use ant to write systems, they write build files. - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Profe

Re: [jug-discussion] ANT question

2004-01-07 Thread Drew Davidson
Erik Hatcher wrote: On Jan 7, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Drew Davidson wrote: It seems that the solution to every ant problem ends up being "use a property file". Or "it's tricky". Isn't *anything* straightforward in Ant? Except of course compiling Java source in a

Re: [jug-discussion] timely find

2004-01-07 Thread Drew Davidson
rse :-) - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 53

Re: [jug-discussion] code coverage

2004-02-11 Thread Drew Davidson
ts will be normalized and inheritable (so it's possible to have a sub-context of an OGNL context with variations). I'm looking forward to getting this done as soon as my life permits. - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Techn

[jug-discussion] Testing

2004-02-12 Thread Drew Davidson
Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1965

[jug-discussion] JIDE

2004-02-12 Thread Drew Davidson
Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1965\ | Mo

Re: [jug-discussion] Has anyone used Spring yet?

2004-02-23 Thread Drew Davidson
iguration. I'm sure that the AOP part is just as well-done. WOW! Spring is killer. Spring makes TDD in J2EE so much more doable. You got to check out Spring. I agree. Wait until version 1.1 when they will have OGNL integrated. It will be even better! - Drew -- +

Re: [jug-discussion] Show your support. :-)

2004-02-25 Thread Drew Davidson
with the other JUG? Tucson JUG - T-JUG Posted on Thursday, Mar 13 2003 John Kroubalkian and Denise Cross are the contacts.  Anyone know them? - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +

Re: [jug-discussion] Meeting Topic for March?

2004-02-25 Thread Drew Davidson
OGNL. As you can imagine I can talk for as long as you are capable of sitting still. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |

Re: [jug-discussion] timely find

2004-03-04 Thread Drew Davidson
John D. Mitchell wrote: The Hatchet wrote: And with Ant, you get to choose what programming language that is:

Re: [jug-discussion] timely find

2004-03-04 Thread Drew Davidson
Erik Hatcher wrote: On Jan 7, 2004, at 11:00 PM, Drew Davidson wrote: Especially the line that: "The point is that builds can become arbitrarily complex, and anything less than a full programming language is just doesn’t cut it." And with Ant, you get to choose what programming lan

Re: Fwd: [jug-discussion] timely find

2004-03-05 Thread Drew Davidson
Erik Hatcher wrote: On Mar 4, 2004, at 8:21 PM, Drew Davidson wrote: NIH. I've found the Jakarta people to be the most snobbish, political bunch around. They have a technocracy that pays lip service to Open Source but they only want *their* open source. I was semi-joking with Howard

Re: [jug-discussion] Webapp frameworks

2004-03-05 Thread Drew Davidson
here but I'll be happy to discuss this at the JUG meeting next Tuesday. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.or

Re: [jug-discussion] New Site!

2004-03-05 Thread Drew Davidson
Warner Onstine wrote: I would just like to point out that we have a new Site design! Courtesy of none other than Tim Colson. Visit the revamped CSS-only layout at: http://www.tucson-jug.org Timo, great work. It's very classy! - Drew -- +-+ < Drew

[jug-discussion] OGNL presentation on Tuesday

2004-03-07 Thread Drew Davidson
ense These are just some suggestions. Feel free to let me know what you think would be interesting for me to talk about. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EM

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL presentation on Tuesday

2004-03-07 Thread Drew Davidson
hod yet. I am a WebOGNL god, wanna talk about how OGNL is used in that? :-) - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.og

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL presentation on Tuesday

2004-03-07 Thread Drew Davidson
summary. My explanation pales in comparison. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 53

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL presentation on Tuesday

2004-03-07 Thread Drew Davidson
ed that section with some smileys or something. It was a joke for anyone who has visited my site and had their eyeballs burn in their skull. :-) - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL presentation on Tuesday

2004-03-08 Thread Drew Davidson
Richard Hightower wrote: I wish I could be there. I really want to learn more about Ognl. I will be out of town. You are in danger of not being able to call yourself a Tucsonan :-) Can you post the slides on the website? Sure. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew David

[jug-discussion] OGNL presentation available

2004-03-10 Thread Drew Davidson
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[jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Drew Davidson
even though EL is inferior to OGNL in many ways. I just don't get it. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http

Re: [jug-discussion] i'm lazy ;-), copy/move uppercase files/folders to lower-case

2004-03-17 Thread Drew Davidson
/a-z_/; print "copying $file to $tofile\n"; copy($file,"D:/temp/bak/${tofile}.bkp") or warn "Can not copy $tofile $!\n"; } Tim, I think you need to repost the code because there was a big wad of line noise in your previous posting. No, wait, that's just Perl code.

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Drew Davidson
Dennis Sosnoski wrote: Drew Davidson wrote: [...] I personally feel that ego JSRs such as this are turning the way the process should work on its head by saying "we're going to build this technology that everybody is going to want to use." If that's really the case, wh

Re: [jug-discussion] enumerated constants in Java and Oracle?

2004-03-22 Thread Drew Davidson
/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/features.html#enums - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vo

Re: [jug-discussion] Confluence using OGNL?

2004-03-26 Thread Drew Davidson
m all-pervasive. Oracle claims to fuel the Internet, but it's really OGNL. :-) - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |We

Re: [jug-discussion] Confluence using OGNL?

2004-03-26 Thread Drew Davidson
s I will get it deployed soon. - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > < Professional Open Source> +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966

Re: [jug-discussion] XMLFace

2004-04-29 Thread Drew Davidson
x27;d love to. I sent out a message on the OGNL interest mailing list asking about who is using OGNL in what projects. The only respondent was Howard Lewis Ship of Tapestry fame. So it's a bit difficult to find out who is using OGNL. - Drew -- +-----+ <

Re: [jug-discussion] ANT Install failing

2004-08-21 Thread Drew Davidson
In addition, I recommend a live chicken or goat be sacrificed. I believe that is documented in the Ant INSTALL.txt file under "Troubleshooting". Be sure to read the entrails and follow the directions EXACTLY. :-) - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OG

Re: [jug-discussion] Meeting Tues Sep 14

2004-09-14 Thread Drew Davidson
hat right"] - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1965

Re: [jug-discussion] XML editor & component in Java

2004-09-15 Thread Drew Davidson
version. Also it edits DocBook in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Got :-) fashion. It's written in Java also, so it's available for lots of platforms. http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/ - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OG

Re: [jug-discussion] Java "core" files?

2004-09-20 Thread Drew Davidson
Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1965\ | Mobile:

Re: [jug-discussion] How to grab a Spring configured bean?

2004-09-23 Thread Drew Davidson
tip. Use it together. Use it in peace. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1965

Re: [jug-discussion] need a short topic (or not)

2004-10-06 Thread Drew Davidson
ately. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1965\ | Mobile:

Re: [jug-discussion] Jython, Groovy and other limp wristed languages RE: [jug-discussion] thoughts on new presos

2004-10-31 Thread Drew Davidson
fectly readable & maintainable (for the most part :-), because they are written as close to the domain of the problem as possible. Read the two Programming Pearls books for much better thoughts on this than I am presenting here. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davi

Re: [jug-discussion] javascript (was Re: [jug-discussion] Jython, Groovy and other limp wristed languages RE: [jug-discussion] thoughts on new presos)

2004-11-01 Thread Drew Davidson
Andrew Huntwork wrote: Drew Davidson wrote: Richard Hightower wrote: I agree. Like it or not Groovy looks like it will be a factor. (Poor Drew hates it with a passion.) Actually I don't hate it at all. I actually quite like the concept of a language that allows for scripting that i

Re: [jug-discussion] Jython, Groovy and other limp wristed languages RE: [jug-discussion] thoughts on new presos

2004-11-01 Thread Drew Davidson
Richard Hightower wrote: Hook. Line. And Sinker That was such obvious flame bait Thanks for going easy on me... Big guy! I'll get you for this Rick Hightower. I swear it. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Te

Re: [jug-discussion] Ant and Anthill Spawn o' the Devil

2004-11-04 Thread Drew Davidson
as a control panel also (no service install, however). - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax:

Re: [jug-discussion] Searching large object graphs

2004-12-29 Thread Drew Davidson
ed to know about JPEG, EXIF metadata and the like: http://www.google.com :-) - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (52

Re: [jug-discussion] Searching large object graphs

2004-12-29 Thread Drew Davidson
rength. - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1965\

Re: [jug-discussion] Searching large object graphs

2004-12-30 Thread Drew Davidson
ch you are putting it. Simple as possible but no simpler. - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |

Re: [jug-discussion] JDJ: Featured article on Spring

2005-01-09 Thread Drew Davidson
ephen King of the Java writing world. - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |

Re: [jug-discussion] Spring FUD is confounded

2005-01-10 Thread Drew Davidson
ne of the few. Almost anything that I do that is interesting has many interacting pieces that would be better served by configuration. If you are developing web apps, I feel it very wise to look into Spring for the backend to augment your investment in J2EE. And to be play both sides of the d

Re: [jug-discussion] Spring FUD is confounded

2005-01-11 Thread Drew Davidson
Erik Hatcher wrote: On Jan 10, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Drew Davidson wrote: creamy OGNL goodness I love OGNL, but the thought of it being creamy has lessened it somewhat. Don't be scared off because of its creaminess. It's gooey and chewy also, if you configure it right. Given that it is a

Re: [jug-discussion] IoC and object encapsulation

2005-02-10 Thread Drew Davidson
ive me IoC! Who is the local IoC expert? I must employ him at all costs! Josh, you owe me a new keyboard. I just spewed coffee all over it when I read your posting. - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+

Re: [jug-discussion] IoC and object encapsulation

2005-02-12 Thread Drew Davidson
nd Hibernate allow you to do things the right way. There will be a shakeout of best practices, but that's a very good thing for everyone. There will be "bad Spring" and "good Spring" and eventually all of the bad Spring will be filtered out as people

Re: [jug-discussion] the languages that we create....

2005-02-24 Thread Drew Davidson
nothing like him. This is the second thread that I've been forceable dragged into :-) And now Tim is making inflamatory remarks about both my genetics and my progeny. Is this flame bait, Timo? :-) - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Te

Re: [jug-discussion] the languages that we create....

2005-02-24 Thread Drew Davidson
er day and I don't feel that I need to have to pay (with my time) to have my opinions matter because I'm not a committer on a particular project. - Drew -- +-+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +

Re: [jug-discussion] Appending a new property to the end of a property file?

2005-02-27 Thread Drew Davidson
elieve so. I looked around also. - Drew -- +-----+ < Drew Davidson | OGNL Technology > +-+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / |Web: http://www.ognl.org / |Vox: (520) 531-1966 < |Fax: (520) 531-1965\ | Mobile: (520) 405-2967 \ +--

Re: [jug-discussion] Appending a new property to the end of a property file?

2005-02-27 Thread Drew Davidson
Erik Hatcher wrote: On Feb 27, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Drew Davidson wrote: I have an ant task that writes a property file based on a prefix. For a frequent basher of Ant, it might behoove you to know the enemy well: True that this misses the original point, as does your task, of keeping the

Re: [jug-discussion] storing blobs on file system or in db

2005-03-16 Thread Drew Davidson
of using the servlet. I'm not just uploading documents and serving them, however, so my setup is probably more complicated that yours would be. My application has uploaded images that are thumbnailed on-demand to verious sizes. Just my opinion, FWIW. - Drew -- +--

Re: [jug-discussion] Hey Drew, ognl bug, or user ignorance?

2005-06-04 Thread Drew Davidson
source:"ognl:courseList.{? #foo = #this, @[EMAIL PROTECTED](visit.user, #foo) }" Give that a try and see if it works better. Note that the "visit.user" should not have worked unless the object from the courseList list is a page or component. Is it? - Drew -- +

Re: [jug-discussion] Mac Java Performance

2005-09-23 Thread Drew Davidson
o suit me. Many of my co-workers use Eclipse on the Mac and they are very productive. There are WO integration tools (WOLips) that make WO development much easier. I even use Eclipse to work on Objective-C code. Just another data point. - Drew -- +-+ < Dre

Re: [jug-discussion] App Dev Framework choices

2006-06-24 Thread Drew Davidson
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Re: [jug-discussion] OT -- SaveXP.com

2008-05-09 Thread Drew Davidson
Welcome to the side of the angels, Rick. Glad to have you! - Drew On May 9, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Richard Hightower wrote: Vista is the best thing that ever happened to me. It SUCKED so bad that after six months of hell I finally switched to a Mac. I turned my old vista machine into Ubunt