Rhizome: Web Helpers Added

Most of my Rhizome applications are Servlet oriented. So I decided to break one of my initial design considerations ("This will not become a web framework") and add some classes for supporting web-based apps.

Really, this is not a web framework. It just provides web-oriented tasks to the Rhizome Controller framework, which is a request queue manager.

With this framework, I developed a prototype of Seriatim -- a project time tracking tool -- in about four hours. I am planning on releasing Seriatim in the near future.

OpenCms S5 Module

Aleph-Null has released a new OpenCms module providing S5 support.

Days before I was to leave for Germany, my Toshiba tablet croaked. So I went out and bought a MacBook Pro. But at the time I couldn't get OpenOffice presentations working... so I decided to use S5.

Well, one thing led to another, and I wrote a module to allow OpenCms users to create slide shows within OpenCms, and then display them over the web.

Now I just have to figure out how to export the results to a PDF so that Alkacon can publish them....

OpenCms Days 2008

I had a great time at OpenCms Days in Cologne, Germany. The conference was fantastic -- well organized and thought provoking.

I wrote up the conference at Aleph-Null's website. I also posted some reflections on my personal blog. Seth Gottlieb, one of the other invited speakers, posted a good blog on the conference, too:
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