Links for 2008-11-18
Posted by mattc at Nov 19, 08 05:05 AM
- Maven: Broken By Design - The Fishbowl
Maven: 'It's like walking up to a shop assistant and asking him to help you find a book, only to watch him dust shelves for fifteen minutes first."
Posted by mattc at Nov 19, 08 05:05 AM
Maven: 'It's like walking up to a shop assistant and asking him to help you find a book, only to watch him dust shelves for fifteen minutes first."
Posted by mattc at Nov 18, 08 09:40 PM ... Comments (0)
I'm trying out Maven at work, it's not much fun.
It solves some of your problems quite neatly, like JAR dependencies. The subscriber concept works conceptually (ie. in Ant terms, targets listen out for standardised events rather than having to chain them together), but all the documentation I've read explains things in such a roundabout way that it just confuses matters. Here's a helpful quote from the O'Reilly Maven book (page 182),
The interesting phase in the clean lifecycle is the clean phase. The Clean plugin's clean goal (clean:clean) is bound to the clean phase in the clean lifecycle. The clean:clean goal deletes the output of a build by deleting the build directory.
Got that? Rather than,
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="${build.dir}"/>
<target>
One good thing: Maven has a published XSD, which I don't think Ant has ever bothered with.
Maybe I'll get it in a week or two.
Posted by mattc at Nov 18, 08 05:05 AM
First acknowledgement of Silverlight penetration from MS: about 25% worldwide of either version. Very probably lower than this in the UK due to a lack of mainstream applications, certainly according to my own stat's. Still, quite positive figures, considering v1 was only launched this time last year.
My telephone has an IP address, this is it. Toaster soon to follow.
This will make things a little more convenient but I'd prefer to concentrate on some higher level representation of CSS, bundled with the rest of your view logic (in xsl, php or whatever)
Ack, rarely do I see a use case that couldn't (or hasn't) be acheived in some non-semantic-web way, but maybe I just don't get it.
Posted by mattc at Nov 13, 08 05:05 AM
Testing out xinclude to create modular xml documents rather than custom xml+xsl solution of slurping one file in to another via xpath's document() function.
Posted by mattc at Nov 12, 08 05:05 AM
Walkthrough of bundling process.
Posted by mattc at Nov 11, 08 05:06 AM
EC2 walkthrough.
Selenium + EC2 as the Forge's CI environment.
Posted by mattc at Nov 10, 08 10:13 PM ... Comments (0)

I copied what Paul did.
It's ok for browser testing, I guess you want to build a custom image with your favourite browsers rather than the off-the-shelf one. My main exploration is to see if I can use it to host an instance of Selenium RC to which I can point our CI server, otherwise we'll have to continue to use a bespoke underthedesktm solution.
Posted by mattc at Nov 6, 08 05:34 AM
Posted by mattc at Nov 3, 08 05:05 AM
Great musings on creativity at El Bulli.
Posted by mattc at Nov 2, 08 05:05 AM
A list you don't want to be on.
Posted by mattc at Nov 1, 08 05:05 AM
XPath is a bit of a performance hit, and using the native DOM is too much like code munging, so perhaps a nice middle ground is nicking the jquery DOM api selectors to access parts of the xml you are consuming.
Posted by mattc at Oct 28, 08 05:05 AM
Finally had a chance to play with this today, it's a bit like Opera's custom search functionality with a much slicker interface, nice editing tools and shareable too. So it wins.
Posted by mattc at Oct 27, 08 05:05 AM
Test runner for web security.
Test suite for XSS.
Bobby Tables.
Posted by mattc at Oct 26, 08 05:05 AM
The display patterns section is interesting.
Thinking about the semantics of geospatial information. Polar coordiantes better model everyday conversation than Cartesian, Eg. you might say, 'x is 5 miles noth-west of y', whereas you wouldn't say, 'x is 3 miles west and 5 miles north of y'.
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