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JFission

By barneyb on April 7, 2004

After some careful thought today while I was supposed to be working, I decided to rename JSPCF to JFission. It's a nicer name, I think, and has the right blend of subtle meaning to suit my intellect. I've finalized the set of functions that will be included in the 0.1 release, and started [...]

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JUnit and Eclipse

By barneyb on April 4, 2004

Eclipse, for those of you who don't know, is an amazing platform for developing integrated tools, which comes with a Java IDE build on the platform. It's all Java, and it's the best IDE I've come across (though I can't say I've used MS Visual Studio).
JUnit is a very lightweight testing framework for doing [...]

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JSPCF, the taglib

By barneyb on April 4, 2004

As I've been working on this site, I've started missing all the really handy stuff that CF provides. So I started work on a JSP taglib that provides some of those nice features. The JSTL which are build into the JSP 2.0 spec are a step in the right direction (after the nothing [...]

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"Email Me" Page

By barneyb on April 3, 2004

I added an Email Me page for shooting me an email. My general preference has been for just an email link, but with the amount of spam I already get, I figure I'll take what precautions I can.

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New Layout and Skin

By barneyb on March 23, 2004

As should be very obvious, I finally took the time to build an attractive skin/layout for my blog, rather than the handful of color tweaks to the default MovableType stylesheet that had qualified as customization until now. For whatever reason, the header and footer graphics don't look smooth, nor line up colorwise, on Windows. [...]

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Site Architecture

By barneyb on March 17, 2004

I put together a document that explains the architecture behind this site, including some configuration snippets and a flowchart the explains how everything relates. Hopefully it will be understandable to those who haven't had first-hand experience with the guts of it.

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JSPs vs. ColdFusion

By barneyb on March 15, 2004

Thank GOD for ColdFusion. After doing a bunch of JSP stuff, I can't imagine trying to be productive without the tools that CF provides. The less that elegant syntax of the JSTL is annoying, but it's the tight integration that I really miss. You don't really appreciate the CFMAIL tag (for example) [...]

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Refining

By barneyb on March 15, 2004

I found a couple slight glitches with the way I integrated all my non-MovableType pages into the MovableType layouts (I'll write up how all that works at some point). The biggest offender was the lack of use of the 'blog' class on a DIV to add some margins around the page content, which pushed [...]

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PasswordSafe Updated

By barneyb on March 14, 2004

I've just released PasswordSafe v0.3.3. The only external change is that changing a file's master key will actually work now. Previously, it would only take if you change the key, and then immediately restarted the application, but now it'll work even if you continue to use the application after changing the key.
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To Build a Better Terminal

By barneyb on March 14, 2004

I'd yet to find a terminal application with all the features I wanted. The built-in Terminal application was questionable at best, and I'd been using xterms in X11 for a while, which worked quite well. However, they had one really annoying feature: the 'delete' key didn't work when using emacs over SSH to [...]

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