Archives for August 2005
I’ve had it with Maven sites and xdoc!
Ah, Maven. Everyone who has ever met me in real life and talked to me about Maven, knows my love-hate relationship to this tool. Maven, just like Microsoft Windows, is deceptively easy to use. It is sometimes even shiny. It does things where you have to write lots of ant-script-lines in a few lines.
But if […]
What is project vitality?
In a recent Article to the Velocity Development list, the project was brandmarked as being “dead” because there seems to be not much traffic on the development list. What the original author is missing, however is the amount of traffic going through other channels like face-to-face meetings, water cooler discussions or just personal mail.
So what […]
Another Revusky Incident
Hm.
Just been called Liar in public by Mr. Revusky (he referred to me as a clown before).
And why that? Because I don’t care about his personal pet-peeve: FreeMarker, but prefer to work in a community that is not as hostile (or “competitive”).
It’s not even that I don’t like FreeMarker. I do consider it a nice […]
Farewell, DB Torque
After some hiatus, I was finally able to put some time away to do some long overdue reworks on the DB Torque code base that I felt that I have to do.
Finally, we have an envelope site; I was able to clean up lots of the cruft that has collected over time and the Subversion […]
CodeWrestler
In the never ending saga of being anal with source code, I was always annoyed when I had to do code releases that didn’t have license files in all source files, trailing spaces, wrong license versions and all that lint that makes your source less shiny than it could be.
I was looking for tools that […]