John R. Collins' Radio WeblogA little place in blog space for Java programmers interested in Java user interfaces, web programming, databases, and networking, to learn the latest things.(Untitled)- May 23, 2003 I found this old article by Jason Diamond via Leigh Dodds. The article describes the same technique I was referring to in a previous entry. The article refers to an even older article by Eric van der Vlist describing the same technique. The idea is to come up with your own set of XML elements that describe best your problem domain, annotate your HTML pages with these XML elements, and then use an XSLT stylesheet to transform the annotated HTML page into another XSLT stylesheet. This last...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/05/23.html#a81 (Untitled)- May 15, 2003 Moving the iTunes music library to an external disk, tips on integrating iTunes with TiVO Home Media. MacInTouchhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/05/15.html#a80 (Untitled)- May 15, 2003 Newswire stories, including: Saxon 7.5 is available; OWL-Genie - an XSLT template library for OWL; Simple Semantic Resolution (SSR) - RSS 2.0 Module. xmlhackhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/05/15.html#a78 (Untitled)- May 15, 2003 Thanks to Code Intesity I stumbled onto iTerm yesterday. Crikey, I thought that Terminal.app was the best shell I'd ever used but with its semi-transparent background and tabbed panes and xterm-stylee mouse selection-is-copy feature, the open source iTerm shell is the winner. I've gotta start blogging about Java again; I'm starting to sound like a Mac geek :) James Strachan's Radio Webloghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/05/15.html#a77 (Untitled)- May 15, 2003 There seems to be a bit of debate right now in the blogosphere about static versus dynamic languages. If you use emacs as your IDE then sure you're gonna find a dynamic language way faster to hack code. However anyone who's really got to grips with using a modern refactoring & auto-completing IDE like eclipse or IDEA will realise how productive and fast a statically typed language really can be - the 'overhead' of static typing can actually make development faster. I find it hard to imagine..http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/05/15.html#a76 (Untitled)- May 15, 2003 Like Steven I've been taking a look at Python or Jython plugins for eclipse. There's a wiki page with links to the various efforts of which it seems this one seems pretty good - though its just a basic editor, no nice code completion or refactoring tools. There is some discussion on adding a standard Python project to Eclipse - it just seems to need a lead developer to step to the plate. Adding Don's tool into one of the existing eclipse plugins could be a cool start. I took a closer look at.http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/05/15.html#a75 (Untitled)- May 15, 2003 Charles Miller decided to use Scheme to describe configuration files instead of XML. I have a different approach. Since most of the applications I write these days end up processing XML anyways, I prefer writing XML configurations file. Since I really like XSLT's power and to avoid the proliferation of tools like commons-digester and others, I write a simple XSLT stylesheet to process my configuration files. Such a stylesheet would need to receive as parameter a context Java object which...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/05/15.html#a74 (Untitled)- May 15, 2003 Below is a good post by Ovidiu Predescu on a smart way to approach content presentation using XSLT. The idea is to have a series of two XSLT scripts, instead of doing just one. I used this technique in a report writing system I created. It works well. I found this old article by Jason Diamond via Leigh Dodds. The article describes the same technique I was referring to in a previous entry. The article refers to an even older article by Eric van der Vlist describing the same technique. The...http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/05/15.html#a73 (Untitled)- May 15, 2003 The International Herald Tribune has got hold of some fascinating Microsoft memos detailing their plans for combatting the Linux threat. Living Without Microsoft (Hey, I guess there has never been a better time for hard-nosed bargaining with Microsoft. Just read the fine print in their licenses before you sign.)http://radio.weblogs.com/0118603/2003/05/15.html#a72 |