The Goldfish Chronicles

Very tiny hope blossoming that I might have the coding habit again after spending 2 months without a single Apache, OSJava, JBeanTester itch or anything codelike done outside of work.

I’ve not leapt into code, but I’ve at least managed to release new versions of Norbert, Trail-Taglib and OSCube.

Norbert is a robots.txt parser. The new release removes the dependencies and has it throwing a nice Exception instead of magic and logging.

Trail-Taglib is a dynamic breadcrumbs taglib and the new release sees what feels like a simplification to the normalisation algorithm, ie) the ignoring of query strings.

OSCube is, embaressingly, a framework of some kind. I know they’re all the rage at the moment, and this lacks all the intelligence and sanity of others. It’s the evolution of the scraping-engine I have, but without the scraping. An xxxx-engine. I’ve used it for a real-time value simulation engine, and it’s suitably cryptic and full of hidden gotchas that it’s ready for a public release so I can use it at work.

I find myself quite often designing, if not coding, systems which have a scheduler, a bit of work, some db-storage, and a success/error notifier on the end, while needing a configuration system and access to a DataSource, and it seems to fit this bill quite nicely.

Next up, I really need to dig into simple-jndi and teach it about hierarchies. Currently it only half gets them. This might also be a good time to teach it, and me, about DirContexts as they map to my hierarchy problem I think.

All found at www.osjava.org by the way.

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