Sylvain Wallez


Random musings of a busy geek

Cocoon 2.1.6 is out

Apache Cocoon 2.1.6 has just been released. This is mainly a maintenance release, while development of version 2.2 continues. Noticeable new features in this release are JavaFlow, which brings continuations to Java, integration of JavaServerFaces, new features in the portal engine, NekoHTML to "xml-ize" HTML documents, and ...


Macintosh love

Andrew explains why people should swith to a Mac. And I totally agree with him: near to zero administration, cool user interface, innovative tools, powerful Unix system, etc. And it all just works. Really. On this matter, some people at the GT have seen my tiny bluetooth mouse. There's ...


Cocoon GetTogether pictures

I've uploaded pictures taken at the Cocoon Get Together here. There's also a meta-album on the Cocoon wiki.


Cocoon GetTogether 2004

The 3rd Cocoon GetTogether is becoming a huge event. About 80 people attended yesterday's hackaton and 136 people showed up today for the conference. That's 10 more than last year. The hackaton's morning was dedicated to fixing bugs, with Bertrand's super-efficient bug chooser (bug titles printed ...


Teaching kids to code

Matthew is looking for good ways to have his kid starting to code. Just like him, I remember the time spent typing Basic programs that just displayed some very basic graphics, or driving the user using a text menu. These programs where rather simple to write, and were adapted to ...


Meeting the Java Studio Creator team

People from the Java Studio Creator team are currently touring in France to demonstrate their baby. This afternoon, they were at Sun offices in Toulouse, just a few blocks away from my workplace. So I met Jim Inscore, the product manager, Tor Nobye and Octavian Tanase, two of its developers ...


POJC: the Plain Old Java Container

You never know when ideas pop up. That one came while I was mowing the grass this afternoon :-) The current trend in COP is to have components being POJOs or JavaBeans with no proprietary container API. But sometimes some components needs to access the container services and therefore become tied ...


Cocoon GetTogether registration opened

The registration for the third Cocoon GetTogether is now opened. Come in! This is a unique occasion to meet Cocoon users and developpers. Yours truly will present some yummy advanced examples using Cocoon Forms.


A dead simple solution to blog spam

Looking at my blog's log, I found that comment spam are posted directly to mt-comments.cgi, without first loading any other page. They should be googling something like " inurl:mt-comments.cgi" to search for MovableType-powered blogs. Considering this, defeating those bastards is dead simple: I just changed the names ...


A new website for Anyware Technologies

Our new website is now available in english (the french version has been online for a few weeks). Check it out! Cocooners will particularily want to look at this page. I'll show a lot more at the Cocoon GetTogether. And frenchies out there, don't forget to look at ...