DraK's Klog

We’ve got a Nabaztag in our office. Nabaztag is a phonetic spelling of the Armenian word for ‘rabbit’, which is basically what it is: a small, white, animatronic rabbit with a passing resemblance to an albino Pikachu. It sits on my desk and speaks the results of the continuous integration tests that run after we check in new code, and announces every time we get a ping at Reevoo.

Un outil de représentation de schéma de base de donnée. L'outil exporte en HTML, utilise GraphViz pour générer les graphiques. En outre, il effectue quelques analyses d'anomalies.


Pour finir, il existe un plugin pour Maven 1.

Un plugin Maven 2 de précompilation de JSP.

Un Wiki natif docbook !! Permet d'afficher et d'éditer des documents docbook en ligne.

DocBookWiki can display DocBook documents online. Different from the other applications, which convert a DocBook document into HTML first, in order to display it online, DocBookWiki converts it on the fly, so that the format for saving the document will still be XML (DocBook). In order to do this efficiently, DocBookWiki splits it first into chunks, according to chapters, sections etc.

Un plugin docbook pour Maven 2 qui semble prometteur, et l'enthousiasme de son auteur laisse réveur

Remember that some ago I planned to create my own Maven based tool chain for DocBook processing? Well, last week, I arrived at a point from which it actually is starting to become more interesting to render DocBook using my Maven toolchain than to to use my old Ant based toolchain.


You can find more information on this plugin at the plugin’s Maven site.


The thing that I really, really like about it is that I can simply add a reference to a plugin, and everything will be downloaded automatically. And I also like the Maven based configuration mechanism. As you will bee looking at documentation for the HTML rendering plugin, all parameters are explicitly listed.


But the thing that I like most of all and above anything else is that the plugins actually are getting generated. So, there is a Maven plugin generating plugin (hu?) and that plugin is generating Maven plugins for generating output from DocBook sources. So, as soon as the next version of the stylesheets are released, I can create dedicated plugins from it, simply by running a Maven goal. This is gonna be a relaxed summer….

uml2svg is an XSLT-based tool for converting XMI-compliant UML Diagrams into SVG.

La version XMI supportée semble être la 1.2.

Un zoli LAF KDE

You know clirr? It can be used to generate a report of what has changed in between two releases by directly comparing the jars. Unfortunately it is under LGPL/GPL license (and the maven support was never really good). A while ago I came across an alternative jardiff which is under BSD license …but it was missing support for maven2.


Well, that’s fixed now I’ve just submitted the plugin to the mojo project on codehaus.

The Bright Side Framework provides ready-to-use high level components which will help you quickly build J2EE business applications accessed by rich java/Swing clients on HTTP.

Un plugin Maven 2 pour packager des applications Java Web Start.

The better way to do javascript is to do it unobtrusively. PPK and Simon Willison have been recommending this approach for ages. And it's definitely the way to go. The only problem is that it's a bit of a pain in the ass.

Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere.

Très bon article que j'avais loupé.

This password generator gives you a list of ten "pronounceable" passwords. It is modeled after Morrie Gasser's original generator described in

• Gasser, M., A Random Word Generator for Pronouncable Passwords, MTR-3006, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730, ESD-TR-75-97, HQ Electronic Systems Division, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731. NTIS AD A 017676.

except that Morrie's used a second-order approximation to English and this generator uses a third-order approximation. A descendant of Gasser's generator was added to the Multics operating system by Project Guardian in the mid 70s, and I believe Digital's VMS added a similar feature in the 80s. FIPS Standard 181 describes a similar digraph-based generator, derived from Gasser's.

Apparemment, des précautions sont à prendre avec le client Webdav XP et mod_dav

Ce tutoriel explique comment installer le gestionnaire de révisions et de source Subversion (svn) et Trac, un ensemble d’applications associés à SVN contenant un wiki, un collecteur de bugs, etc.

Strecks, a set of open source extensions to the Struts framework aimed at Java 5 users, has been released. Strecks (which stands for "Struts Extensions") is built on the existing Struts 1.2.x code base.

Enfin !!! Maven avec le support de WEB-DAV !!

Un bugtracker, SCM (subversion), project management et wiki intégré écrit en Python.