Monthly Archives: November 2008

Controllers and validation with Waffle

One of the nicest features of Waffle are the Validators.
In order to have server side validation on some controller logic you don’t need to extend or write any fluff.
Given a method on your controller like this one:

package waffle.controllers;

import org.codehaus.waffle.view.RedirectView;
import org.codehaus.waffle.view.View;

public class UserLoginController {

public View login(String username, String password) {
return new RedirectView(”homepage.waffle”);
}
}

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A cool guy, a cool software: Balsamiq application mockups

Balsamiq mockups is a cool application to quickly, easily write applications mockups and share them on the web, some benefits taken from its website: 

Improve your Usability
Explore Different Designs in Minutes
Get to Agreement Early with a tool everyone can use
Cut down spec-writing time
Spend your time coding, not churning
Use it with your clients, Letting them help you bring their [...]

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Waffles are good, do you fancy a Waffle?

During ThoughtWorks University XI we took the decision to introduce to the trainees Waffle as an example of MVC framework. 
I’ve been impressed by the simplicity of the framework. It has been a while since the last time I’ve played with any Java Web Framework ( I think it was around 6 years ago the last [...]

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Comes a time…

After two+ smashing years I took the decision to leave ThoughtWorks, I’ve produced 16,766 kg of CO2 (at least that’s what dopplr says…) and I decided that it was the right moment to settle down a bit and give up with my gypsy life. 
I’m joining Erudine, a medium-small company located in Harrogate, I’ll work on their [...]

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