August
This is the archive for August, 2006.
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- Moving to Mac OS X: from Thunderbird to Apple Mail
I recently got a shiny new MacBook Pro, and of course have been instantly hooked. In less than a week I seem to have learned my way around with equal proficiency to that other inferior operating system I’ve used for so long.
However, some habits die harder than others. I kept using Thunderbird since all my […]
- WebWork Tip of the Day: Type Conversion when using ModelDriven
Googling for people’s experiences with WebWork rarely turns up any results other than the docs and the equivalent at Struts 2, so most of the time finding out how to do something involves looking at the showcase. However, I found something it doesn’t do today - type conversion in a model driven action.
The trick is […]
- OGNL Maps in WebWork using JSP 2.1
/ the unlucky 87th entry in this blog
Jetty 6 (which I use for day to day development) automatically uses JSP 2.1 if you are on JDK 5.0 or above, regardless of what you have specified in web.xml.
This had been biting me on WebWork, because of the introduction of unified EL. The following is no longer valid:
<ww:select list=”#{’default’ : ‘Maven 2.x Repository’, ‘legacy’ […]
- An Evening with Dr John Best, former Wallabies team doctor
I had a great opportunity tonight to hear Dr John Best give a talk to the men’s group from our church over dinner, on the topic of whether sport and Christianity can mix. He was the team doctor for the Australian Rugby Union team - the Wallabies - for six years, including their win in […]
- I’m liking the new Thunderbird
Ok, so this will definitely jinx it, but… Thunderbird 2 is looking nice. So far, it’s stable (I’m always hesitant to put important data into an alpha, but with backups aplenty I feel ok about it).
Useful new features:unread folder view makes me a lot more efficient at dealing with incoming mail
better tagging instead of just […]
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