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January 25, 2004
Slowly getting into my travelling alter-ego after making our first hostel reservations for the upcoming trip.
Seems like much of the backpacking scene has been moving towards the e-world since our last travel (That was before starting on kids, so that's a rough +6y ago). A good technique seems to be to snip some pointers from here:
and then just narrow them to some more direct location through our friend. Which isn't really easy I have to say, seems like international booking service sites have flooded google enough to virtually remove the local web-presence of the individual hostels. Hinting with an additional site:.co.za helps a bit.
Some other links that might come in handy next weeks:
For my dear readers over here: dunno how much online time I'll have the coming weeks so no real promises on the frequency of updates here. Just check every now and then...
Tomorow is unplugging day: unsubscribing from the apache mailing lists... still have to think about some smart measurments for making sure the good 'ol mailbox doesn't just break by leaving it just as is during holiday time...
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January 10, 2004
Getting into the flowScript of Apache Cocoon I'm seeing myself enjoying the writing of some JavaScript lines.
Before Steven starts ranting again about 'the future of the world being given to scripting languages' and 'the apocalyps of strong typing is near'. I'ld better make clear that I'm still very much at the same position regarding this discussion as last time. To me it is about using the correct tool at the correct time, and the fact that time has changed doesn't mean my judgement has.
The introduction of JavaScript inside the Cocoon framework is now well past the stage where one would consider coming back on that decission. However, I don't think we are at the stage yet where there is clear and unisounding advice on how to have the best separation between your Java and JavaScript code. Some ideas are building up, but IMHO the widespread adoption of the whole concept is waiting for some well described patterns (even one stage further in fact). Next to the extension, polishing and debugging of the cforms (aka Woody) framework I see it as one of the areas where I could contribute during the upcoming year.
As for Cocoon as a whole, there are many more things to do in the upcoming year. Good news is that 2.2 is getting in shape (compiles and starts showing some samples)... Getting the long waited 'real-blocks' is probably the first and most important answer to the feeling described here. People are (have been) quite enthousiastically throwing in new experiments (including me) over time. A big challenge will be to introduce some time of contemplation rehashing and lining up what we have. It might be false hope, but I believe the 2.2 might be giving us that opportunity
Anyway, as I was saying: I'm building up my js skills ATM, and during that process I found some very interesting reads here:
surely a must-read for people that enter the scene with a Java back-ground. Enjoy.The classic function-pointer pattern is back of course, and toying around with it in a syntax so close to Java just shows how shallow the differences to (anonymous) inner classes are. (heck, this calls for vague memories: the C# - Java chisma actually originated in that discussion, no?). In any case, I like to use the concept in both incarnations. Nice example of it just got added to the flowscript lib.
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Wife and me decided to have a long and far away family-holiday this year. (somewhere last September?) The choice fell for going down to .za in Februari. (Not counting now and then extended weekends, it will be the first (huge) block of together-time since May 2002 when we went to Barcelona). As time of departure is getting nearer we're getting in the traveling mood (mainly due to increased preparations.)
Yesterday, we got ourselves to organize the international passports. The quality standards for the pictures are of the kind that you need the lighting, printer equipment and photoshop skills of a semi-professional studio :-( This mainly means the ones I made with the digicam are only suitable for giving you a family line-up...
By the way, any travel-tips for the country are welcomed.
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January 02, 2004
In case you didn't know yet: there is a true knight on the W3C nowadays.
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