Category Archives: JCatapult

Savant command-line tool and plugins are almost ready

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

Been working this week on Savant 2.0. My first thought when I started writing Savant 2.0 was to write a complete replacement for both Maven and Ant that used Groovy and allowed for both a plugin model as well as … Continue reading →

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Google Code could be EXTREMELY dangerous

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

I host a number of projects including JCatapult over at Google code. We use the wiki over there for our documentation because it is simple and centralized. The wiki is stored inside the SubVersion repository and when you update the … Continue reading →

Posted in Engineering, Google, JCatapult, Life, Tech | 1 Comment

FCKEditor is touchy (especially with SiteMesh)

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

First off, let me just say that I don’t like any rich text editors very much. They are all a messy mix of HTML, JS, CSS, etc. There isn’t anything out there that is truly clean, feature rich and performs … Continue reading →

Posted in JCatapult, Java | 1 Comment

Do we really need code reloading?

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

With Grails, Rails, Python, etc offering developers the chance to change code, hit refresh and see the changes I often wonder if reload truly a feature that is a must have these days? It seems like it is one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Engineering, JCatapult, Java, Rails, Tech | 4 Comments

JCatapult M1 today

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Brian Pontarelli

I’m releasing JCatapult milestone 1 as I type. This is the first major release of JCatapult and the first of two milestone releases before 1.0 is released in March. This release is stable and contains the majority of the functionality … Continue reading →

Posted in JCatapult, Java | 9 Comments