There’s a new Pattern and Practice out: Application Interoperability: Microsoft .NET and J2EE. This is complementary to the .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit by my teammate Simon Guest.
FYI, I have links to many of the Patterns and Practices under “Architecture” on my Linkroll. This new one is under “Guidance”. There are also sections for Application Blocks, Lifecycle Management and Patterns.
For vacation this past week, my family went to Los Angeles to visit friends and family. We got to see some of my old college friends as well as Julie’s brother, dad and best friend. We also went by our old apartment building to see iLia and Elena Anossov, the apartment managers, as well as their son Phillip. In addition to managing our old apartment building, they are both artists. Ilia is one of the few fresco masters living in the US. In addition to his art, he also runs a variety of online properties dedicated to fresco painting. You can check out his portfolio, read his bio, learn about fresco painting, take a fresco painting class, view the fresco image database or read the Fresco Painting Society Weblog (RSS subscribed).
I’m reading Jeff’s account of the mural for his wife with great interest. I don’t think I want to invest in such a project in my current house, but in a few years when we move on to something bigger (hopefully) then I hope I can bring Ilia (and family) up to paint a fresco mural for my house.
I’m back from vacation and I just had to deploy a small dasBlog update that I hacked up while I was on the plane and my wife and son were sleeping. Clemens posted on the GDN workspace about registering your own macro classes. The theme that my wife wanted for her weblog comes with a variety of different sayings for the top of the page (My Journal, Welcome, Listen To My Cheery Chirpings, etc). I thought it would be cool if the image rotated or changed every time you came to the site. So I built my own custom macro class that overrides the radio.macros.imageUrl macro. Now, if you pass in a series of images seperated by vertical pipes (i.e. “image1.gif|image2.gif|image3.gif”), it will split out into an array of image urls and pick one at random. Pretty cool. Anyone want to see the code?