http://www.antwerkz.com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:22:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apple is often lauded for its care of its customers.  Generally, i think this is true.  But I had an experience the other day that no one seemed overly concerned about.  I've emailed the person I'm told is the manager at the W. 14th St. Manhattan store but have, as ... http://www.antwerkz.com/2008/08/20/not-so-genius-bar/ Ant 1.7.0 was released way back in December 2006. Since then, there hasn't been a single update. Not even a maintenance release. Now, ant is a relatively mature product. It's been out a while and is quite stable. But it's certainly not bug free. ... http://www.antwerkz.com/2008/06/19/is-apache-ant-deaddying/ In the last cycle of our product at ${work}, I moved away from the custom installer I'd written and built one on IzPack. Overall I was pretty pleased. My original installer worked. Mostly. The new one a much more polished and did more. So there ... http://www.antwerkz.com/2008/05/07/fun-with-izpack/ I've recently started (re)exploring the world of Groovy and, thus, Grails. The idea of Groovy makes me pretty happy, but Grails kinda makes me cry for a number of reasons. The entire system is, as you probably know, basically RoR but with Groovy complete with scaffolding. The ... http://www.antwerkz.com/2008/03/04/groovy-on-the-web-the-right-way/ I have a macbook at home. I use Windows at work. I can't use iTunes at work because it can't read the mac formatted ipod. I can't format the ipod using a windows filesystem because the macbook/itunes can't update the ipod if it doesn't use the mac ... http://www.antwerkz.com/2008/01/30/ipods/