My sessions for this year's Devoxx are available from Parleys.com: Tapestry and Clojure. You can watch the first two minutes for free (so if you idea of fun is to watch me check with the sound guy and look uncomfortable while waiting for the session...

As a total change of pace, I've been playing around with actual hardware, in the form of an Arduino board. This is a hoot, an actual computer that you can carry around in your hand. They call it physical computing. I'm just getting started with it,...

Another bit of interesting work I did, for another client, was to implement a CAPTCHA system. I chose the library Kaptcha and built services and components around it. If you follow the documentation for Katpcha, you'll see that you're supposed...

I love working on client projects, because those help me really understand how Tapestry gets used, and the problems people are running in to. On site training is another good way to see where the theory meets (or misses) the reality. In any case,...

Last week was a bit of a blur, a mix of severe jet lag, a bit of over-indulgence at the speaker's dinner, and the thrill of presenting on Tapestry and on Clojure in a rock-star environment. Devoxx is well known for the venue ... speaking in front of a...