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Looks like Brian McCallister is getting back into Cocoon. Subscribed.

I turn 25 today, and as a present my girlfriend and my parents chipped in and bought me a nice shiny new iPod. It’s smaller than I thought it would be. I’m afraid of dropping it. And it’s shiny. It can also hold more than twice the amount of mp3s I currently store on my desktop system.

I found a cool piece of software for the iPod called EphPod which allows you to manage all the music in your ‘Pod, calendar synching, and even more. By “even more” I mean, “can download RSS feeds and plop them into your iPod for offline viewing”. Here’s an example of an openWeather feed on the iPod:

Sweet, huh?

If they can manage to implement continuations in Groovy, it could be just the thing Cocoon needs for its Flowscript.

It seems that since Ovidiu’s presentation about Cocoon’s Flowscript, people have been picking up on the idea of continuations for the web. I’ve spotted this post over at manageability.org outlining some continuations-base frameworks for the web. There’s a comment attached to the article saying that the continuation ID must be passed through session, which is 100% wrong. Typically in Cocoon, it is passed through the URL, which is obscenely easy to setup with the sitemap and a matcher.

It appears that there is something called Seaside which is a Smalltalk contunuation framework, as well as something called Borges for Ruby. There is also a bunch of links that point to other continuations-based frameworks. Yes, Cocoon is listed.

2004 is going to be the year of the continuation for the web. I’ll also be curious to see what other neat ideas come out of these projects, and how Cocoon can benefit from ideas in other projects.

Steven blogs about his nice little trip to Vegas, and describes being awake for 24+ hours due to jetlag. I’ve done this, except with insomnia instead of the jetlag. Bad stuff all around. The only solution is to turn off the alarm, pull the shades down, and crash.

Ovidiu points to his ApacheCon 2003 slides on Cocoon and continuations.

If anyone is at ApacheCon, I’d appreciate some live IRC or live Blogging of Oividiu’s talk about Cocoon Control Flow. I’m particularly intereted in an “outsider’s view” of it.

Update: Nevermind, it was yesterday. I need a news aggregator at home. :(

Does anyone have reactions?

I’ve just released an alternative implementation of LOAF in XML under the Apache License. This release includes namespace support. You may find the file here.

Carsten writes:

We like to think at Cocoon as “web glue” for your web application
development needs. But most important, a glue that can keep
concerns separate and allow parallel evolution of the two sides,
improving development pace and reducing the chance of conflicts.

For more information about Apache Cocoon 2.1.3, please go to
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/

Download mirrors are available.

I’m sorry, I can’t stand the tone that the material on the Prevayer website was written in. I am doing a big report on object persistence, and while researching Prevayler, I was left with a really bad taste in my mouth. Sure, it sounds cool, but when the author is cocky and egotistical, I am less interested in the product, and I want to flee and vomit in terror.

I hereby nominate Herr Wuestefeld for membership in The Annoying Open-Source Personality Club alongside with such famous people as RMS and JWZ.

It’s (semi-) official! The National Weather Service is offering weather alerts in RSS format!

Nice to see the National Weather Service moving into some current technology :)