Month: August 2007
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Accessing nested Item properties within a RepositoryFormHandler programatically
If you have a RepositoryItem which has a collection of other RepositoryItems as a property, editing things on them via a single form and RepositoryFormHandler can pose some difficulties. For instance, you have an Item called Garage, and it has a List of Car RepositoryItems as a property named cars. If you are using a…
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Garage Sale
As part of the push to streamline, simplify, and improve life in general, we’ve been piling unused, unwanted, and unopened things in the guest room. Tomorrow we’re going to put them all out in our driveway and have a yard sale. I’ve never had one before, so I’m a little nervous that no one will…
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StringUtils in ATG Dynamo
A hidden gem in ATG Dynamo is the simple, but VERY useful, and totally undocumented StringUtils class. It lives in the atg.core.util package in DAS/lib/classes.jar. It has several methods, but the most commonly used are isEmpty(String) and isBlank(String). Both return a boolean, and are very useful for validating form input and the like. One thing…
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Spook Country
I just finished William Gibson’s latest book, Spook Country. William Gibson is the father of cyberpunk, one of my favorite sci-fi sub-genres. I’ve read, own, and love all of his books, but I especially enjoyed Spook Country. Lately, with this book and the one previous to it certainly, he has evolved away from distant future…
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Minor 10MinuteMail.com update
A minor release to 10MinuteMail just went out. It adds a few languages and language cleanups, bringing us up to 26 supported languages!!! Thanks to all those who have volunteered their time! There’s also a new feature to grab a new e-mail address at any time. Mail sent to your old address(es) will still show…
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JBoss Tools Properties Editor Surprise
No, not the kind of surprise with cake. The latest JBoss Tools Eclipse plugin, which if like me you are running on a platform that they haven’t released RedHat Developer Studio for is a pretty good option, which can be installed through Eclipse using this update URL: http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development Sets up your default editor of .properties…