David Geary's Weblog<p>I'll scratch a hole in my life<br/>So everyone can see<p>Shale: the next Struts at JavaOne- March 20, 2005 I just received notification that my Shale proposal for JavaOne has been accepted. Yee ha! I submitted the proposal by myself, but I mentioned it to Craig McClanahan in email and he wanted to know if we could co-present the session. Of course, I accepted. It's cool to be on the same ticket with one of Java's hottest stars. This will be the second year in a row that I've spoken at JavaOne. Last year I presented a session titled eXtreme JSF and it was packed; in fact, the overflow room...http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/shale_the_next_struts_at Okay, let's take a closer look at Ruby on Rails- March 12, 2005 Bruce Tate sent me some email today raving about Ruby on Rails: he's started using it on a real project. I know Bruce is a pretty level-headed fellow, not to mention an expert in Java web development, so even though I still doubt that Ruby can cut my development time by at least 10X, I'm going to check it out. I'm downloading ROR right now. I saw my good friend Dave Thomas last weekend at NFJS. Dave yelled out my name across a crowded hallway filled with conference attendees and although I...http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/okay_let_s_take_a SiteMesh Developers Ponder Composition- March 6, 2005 The topic of page composition has come up a number of times on the SiteMesh mailing list. Typically, it's Tiles users, lured by the simplicity of SiteMesh decoration, who are looking for a way to compose pages. In essence, they ask "How can I use SiteMesh to do what Tiles does". The bottom line is that SiteMesh is not very good at composition, and proposed composition solutions using SiteMesh are not as elegant as the Tiles approach. So it was with great interest that I read this post by James.http://www.jroller.com/dgeary/entry/sitemesh_guys_have_tile_envy |