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I did my first solo presentation on some of the new Tapestry 4.1 ajax features this Wednesday for the event at http://www.phillyemergingtech.com/.
To make sure everyone has the benefit of being able to point and laugh at things I’ve put up the associated slides / demo / source for your browsing pleasure. Enjoy it while you [...]

Given the number of new failures I’ve run into since I completed the first round of getting all of the existing unit tests to pass using the new ExpressionCompiler I’m pretty terrified at the thought of anyone trying to use it, but progress must come somehow and I’ve run out of things I can find [...]

I’ve been pretty busy the last few weeks working on a tiny set of enhancements to OGNL that should help improve the runtime performance of the library.
Much like Tapestry-Prop, the new set of OGNL enhancements rely on javassist to do incremental bytecode compilation / translation of your ognl expressions into their pure java equivalents. There [...]

It was only slightly ironic that various caching/compression mechanisms were highlighted again this weekend on ajaxian.com, as I was already well underway with some “improvements” of my own in this area with Tapestry.
It all started out innocently enough, first there was the fairly well known IE image caching issue to resolve. A few more [...]

Thanks to the hard work and efforts of Andreas Andreou and Leonardo Quijano Vincenzi this release features a large number of changes/bug fixes that I have mostly been uninvolved in.
Most notable have been:

Upgrade of dojo to latest revision (as of today)
Fixed multipart uploads to work with all ajax requests
Re-fixed back/forward linking logic on ajax [...]

Thanks to the support of our community, and most notably one of our new committers - Brian K. Wallace - the new versions include close to 100+ bug fixes and improvements. Hooray for community efforts!
Hopefully now that Brian is a committer I won’t have to apply his patches anymore, or beg for “easy” buttons [...]