tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57393552011-04-21T19:49:41.812+01:00A local blog for local peopleFrankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18220426997723923634noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5739355.post-84849595745514742502006-10-24T13:11:00.000+01:002006-10-24T13:12:01.777+01:00

I am doing a quick test if the new layout is actually working

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I am playing around with YUI, the Yahoo! User Interface library for generating Ajax and Web 2.0 websites. I looked at several libraries, like Dojo, Prototype, and script.aculo.us, but YUI has a lot of documentation, a great section on patterns, seems very light. I was getting close to using prototype, but it is very close to Ruby on Rails, and I am not planning to use that stack for development,

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I am planning to post a series of articles looking at setting up an EJB 3.0 environment using JBoss 4.04RC1 and comparing it with Ruby on Rails. I have been doing RoR for the last few months on my testbed programming, and I like it a lot. So you may ask, why switching back to Java/EJB? Well, several reasons, firstly I use the Java/JBoss/EJB combo at work, so everything I learn is far more

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Well, the Smile parsing is working, and I am now working to make sure that I can edit transactions, and handle transfers. Then I need to handle liability accounts, and spending&saving categories. If that is done I have the basic outline of a useful budgeting tool. The next step is making it into the outline of a basic PFM tool.

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It is always annoying to find out halfway through a task that there is a better way of doing it. In this case I found out about XHConn.js, a nice javascript class for doing Ajax calls. It is a much cleaner way than I was planning so I can throw away my old template file and start writing a new one. When that is done I can finally start to think about adding some new functionality.

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I am happy to report a lot of success with using xdoclets. I have now written a template that generates most of the JavaScript necessary for hooking the formBean with an ajaxForm in the jsp or html page. I decided for the moment to keep it simple and not use any of the merging functionality of xdoclet to inject the onLoad function straight into the jsp

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VECNA Technologies : What We Do contains all the information necessary to write taghandlers and subtaks. I can do most of what I want using the standard templates method. The biggest problem is that using the standard template tags I can not see a way to create a simple comma-delimited list of all the properties defined in my forms. The cleanest way to achieve this is obviously writing some

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I have noticed very quickly that writing AJAX applications is getting messy fast. A lot of the code to write is very standard, and it is very easy to make mistakes. I do remember the same kind of problems with EJB's, and how XDoclets solves most of those problem. I have been looking quite intensively on the web to find if somebody has used XDoclets for AJAX, but could not find any solution.So I

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Just as a reference:Double Entry Bookkeeping. I have simplified things because I decided that a peron doesn't have an account, just a net value. To be consistent, one needs to follow this page, but I want to keep an individuals' accounts, not a company's.

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One of the first hurdles I ran into was the fact that MySQL by default does not use referential integrity! It does not use foreign keys and other concepts. This was a big problem for two reasons. Firstly it violates the lazyness rule: I do not want to be responsible to guarantee the integrity of the data. It clutters up your code, and any bugs lead to potentially large amounts of data being

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I have progressed quite a lot over the last two weekends. As always, the most important thing in the beginning is getting the concepts right! Since I don't have much technical knowledge of bookkeeping, and started out with a hazy knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping I got a lot of the database modeling wrong when starting out.I figured the concepts out (reinventing the wheel no doubt) and

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This is an ongoing attempt to blog my developing of an bookkeeping webapplication. It is a learning excercise, both on the technical and project front. A short overview: I want to refresh muy knowledge on several techologies I know, and learn some new ones. In no particular order: XHTML: I want to use strict XHTML webpages, and refresh my knowledge of all the tags CSS: I want to

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Yippie, I got invited to GMail. I am busy now switching over from yahoo, just because 1 Gb is so very useful for storing stuff :-)

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Where I come from, we call this corruption: Building War Chest With Few Restraints (washingtonpost.com) I think this is a disgusting way to run a democracy

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If I understand blooger correctly, comments should now be enabled. I am just playing with the system forr the moment

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Never believe the pundits: Gandhi sets to work on coalition. For months all the press kept telling us that Congress was dead, and the BJP were sure to win. It is a clear case of observer's bias: most reporters are well educated and middle class. So their view of the world is from that perspective. The upper middle class and the city dwellers have done quite well over the last few years, so they

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This is nauseating: Soldier Details Abuse, Offers to Plead Guilty. Allowing a little bit of torture is like being a little bit pregnant. It confuses the message. Saying: "torture is not allowed, ever!" makes everything unambigous. Saying: "torture is not allowed, except when we think it is necessary" will lead to horrors reported in the last few weeks.

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Well. they better be careful, or there will be a big backlash over this: Fighting Moves Into Islam Holy Place in Najaf (washingtonpost.com)

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You know, it is true, most blogs are stopped within a few days. It is really hard to blog if one's interests are quite widely dispersed. Most bloggers focus on one subject, and focus on that. I don't think I will ever be able to do that

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One of more wierd interests is following American politics, and especially American presidential elections. I am not even sure why. There is this long standing fascination with the USA, which must have started at around 8 or 9 when I got a Dutch translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. I still remember crying at the ending. It led to a interest in American history, especially the Civil War and race

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A quick link to Apache Axis, the Java implementation of the SOAP protocol. I have been using this quite intensively in the last few weeks to create SOAP services to the Ensembl data. Ensembl provides an interface to all the data of the Human Genome Project. In the underlying database all the mapping information for genes, exons, introns, etc. is stored. One of the projects I am involved in at

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Note to myself: stop starting every post with "So"

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So I spend the last 45 minutes trying to figure out how to add comments to this section. Completey unnecessary, because I do not expect anyoe to read this, but that is of course not the point as every nerd on this planet can tell you. Thanks to BlogSpeak I seem to have something that works. I will test it out to see if the comments actually appear. Now I only hope that that BlogSpeak stays

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So, trying to write my first entry, and I get immediately hit by writer's block. This blog is an attempt to record (mainly for myself) my current interests. Most blogs seem to be tightly focused on one thing (i.e. politics, technology, etc.) This one is aimed more broadly, and is therefore of less interest to outside viewers. A list of topics that will crop up: Programming, mainly Java and

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