You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.
I love Roo! Ben Alex and his team have made a great job making starting a Spring project a breeze. However, I've shied away from using Java for XHTML/JS/CSS since 2003, so while I know the underlying technologies with Roo (JPA, the databases, Spring, JUnit, Tomcat, etc etc) I don't know Apache Tiles at all. So I figured I'd like to learn it, at least until Roo 1.1 hits in a few weeks, when I'll probably want to learn GWT. 
Stay tuned...
While resolving the test problems in the last code, let's look at what we get by doing a
The new AppleTV with iOS inside has me very excited as a developer and a media consumer. But, unfortunately, after the new AppleTV was announced, the old Apple TV is still on sale here in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. What gives, Apple? You neglect the most technophile part of Europe, both with the iPad and now with the AppleTV, without an obvious reason. I emailed support a few weeks ago, and they asked me to check back when the AppleTV started shipping. So now I guess we'll have to drive to Germany to pick one up, just like with the iPad. Lucky for me that's easier than for the Norwegians.
From a concert September 11th in Esbjerg, Casper, Kristian and Thomas from Kind of Magic
Eik Bank, who in 2007 bought the Danish part of Skandiabanken and thus got me as its customer, is in trouble. The share has fallen from ~86 DKK in august to ~30 DKK today, the board has resigned, the Færoe government is wondering if they can bail it out. Apparently the 9,1 million DKK guarantee the Danish government gave is worthless, the same article notes that the security behind the bank is stock in the bank and a failed construction company, so now they're frantically trying to sell the Danish part, the one they bought in 2007. The Danish Finance Ministery guarantees that all deposits are safe, but nowhere do I see that means that customers will actually be able to access their money/pay their bills. A similar uncertainty was in Norway when the Icelandic bank Kaupting was put under administration and people's money were safe but unavailable. (English readers, see this summary article on Eik Banks trouble)
Today I've done what I should have done (and in part did) a long time ago, get my blog up again, retire other blogs, integrate those posts here and modernize this blog. I did update WordPress a while back, adding a new design, but this time I've actually completed the look and made it, well, less fancy. It's the content, not the design, and until I get someone to actually make a working design, a slightly customized standard-design will do well for me.
Let me introduce to you Esbjerg Tidlig Ensemble, the ensemble where I'm privileged to be a recorder player. Right now we're planning our christmas concerts and we have time for one more. So if you're quick and get in touch with me, we can come and play for you and your audience this christmas 
In my SheetMusic iPad application I want my users to be able to import new sheet music, get it back again for printing, and still keep the database and other working files away from the user. Luckily, hiding files is easy, even with file sharing enabled. Just prefix your files and directories with a dot, and they will be as hidden to iTunes as they always have been to Finder
I got an email today from two of my friends who had sent an email to everyone notifying that their email had changed. Not willing to do this work every time someone changes something I thought, I can just grab this via Facebook. A while back I used Address Book Sync (http://danauclair.com/addressbooksync/) and that was great, but one day it stopped working. I checked it out again, and although the new version 1.4 locks up while syncing, it actually does some work while appearing locked, and after a while it had chewed through my friends list and was ready to update my friends. It categorized them in matched and unmatched, so I started by syncing everyone who was matched. That seemed fine, but it synced photos more than phone numbers and email addresses, which is what I'm after. A couple of tests revealed that I was missing emails, adresses, phone numbers and homepages. Hmm... not quite there yet. What do you use? What do you recommend?
There's a great example of how to do spring security in Roo right here: http://bitbucket.org/jeduan/spring-roo-password/ Grab the code and read via