In Relation To

End of last year I wrote about my first proof-of-concept with AuthorDoclet, a documentation tool I've been working on. It took me a while to get it into shape for a first release and I also had to make some conceptual changes once it was mature enough to compile its own manual.

I'm on my way home from the Seam community meeting in Antwerp this Friday, where I managed to talk to two or three people about the Javadoc-based documentation toolset I've been working on, but there was no opportuntity to talk about it in more detail or to look at some actual examples.

A much-requested feature on this website has been automatic syntax highlighting of code snippets. It is now available and I thought I'd document it here instead of sending everyone an e-mail. The reason why it took so long to implement is that I didn't know how to best integrate it with the Seam wiki text syntax. As you know, we wrap a code block in backticks - that doesn't leave any room for syntax highlighting options. Other wiki text parsers use something like <code syntax="java">...</code> but I wanted to keep the superfast backtick syntax and have it highlighted.

Following up on my last blog entry about the next edition of the Hibernate bible, in the comments, Will Iverson (sorry Will, I hope that is really you, first Google hit) said that he would write ALL the code examples as JUnit test cases. Well, AFAIR that is what Will was trying with his Hibernate book a few years ago.

I'm proud to present the initial version of Fresh, CLI for JBossAS.

In the last few weeks I had to migrate a MySQL database and it turned out to be more difficult than I thought. In the past I've used the tools that ship with MySQL, such as mysqldump and its various options. For the recent migrations that was surprisingly... impossible.