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The Future of JS Dev Tools Is The Parse Tree Today I read an article from Sun research, entitled Using Javascript as a Real Programming Language. This obviously struck a chord with me, because it talks about exactly the stuff I've been pushing for since I started using it as... [Read More]

Admitted to the U of MN Warning: personal entry.Just an update on the college post a while back. I applied to the U and just learned that I was accepted for Spring semester, CLA Pre-CS. Not that it's a really hard school to get into, but for somebody with an... [Read More]

Speedier Maven2 Webapp Development Now that Soashable is ported to Maven, I want time savers because the change/compile/package/deploy/test cycle is way too slow. I did a bit of research and here's what I've found.Some goals that are useful alone or combined: war:inplace - copies all dependencies into the webapp source,... [Read More]

maven-javascript-plugin I've been watching and trying out new development on this new Maven plug-in that's coming together after the recent threads [1, 2, Codehaus Proposal]. I've given a couple patches, and am becoming much more familiar with both it and the internals of Maven and the build lifecycle. I've spent... [Read More]

Another JS / Maven2 Thread More on JS packaging for Maven:http://www.nabble.com/recommandation-for-JS-packaging---%28was-Using-maven-for-JavaScript-projects%29-tf4534791s177.htmlAnd a wiki page came to be as a result of the discussion. All of the ideas from JSLibBuilder will be included, including a script artifact repository. :)http://hammerfest.wiki.sourceforge.net/mavan-javascript-tools [Read More]

More on JSLibBuilder to Maven2 Seems like a good time to be thinking about the topic of Javascript development tools.Here's an interesting thread on the Maven Users' list that started yesterday:http://www.mail-archive.com/users@maven.apache.org/msg73451.htmland my contribution to it:http://www.mail-archive.com/users@maven.apache.org/msg73613.htmlIt looks like there is a good array of tools coming to light from thisthread. I,... [Read More]

Maven2 + Soashable The other night I did some tinkering and got Soashable + xmpp4js building with Maven2 (without JSLibBuilder). Basically what I did was create some ‘war’ artifacts for scriptaculous + prototype, extjs, and xmpp4js (none are checked in yet). I also created one for soashable-web that depends on... [Read More]

Fwd: The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design Just a bit of blog-o-spam. I completely agree with the hypothesis presented in this blog post, so I thought I'd pass it on. I've definitely observed this first hand as I've aimed for full unit test coverage of things over the... [Read More]

College Degree Warning: personal entry.I started going to college again summer term of this year. Not having a degree has never really been an issue, but new circumstances made it senseless to not work on it, if only part time. I got a new job that will almost never require... [Read More]

Meebo Does File Transfers & Amazon WS Always on the cutting edge, Meebo does file transfers using Amazon WS. Perhaps validation that the Soashable project is not crazy; we have been discussing that very thing since I became curious about EC2 after TCLUG announced a speaker from Amazon would be... [Read More]