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My week started with a look at an evaluation of Spring MVC or JSF+?.

But it wasn’t long before I was consumed by OSGi to the extent that’s I’ve hardly looked at anything else. I intend to post some sort of summary for myself at some point, once my brain has stopped bubbling.

I did find a reasonably interesting/useful page on the Struts 2 plugin architecture.

Perhaps it’s because the weather has been so much better or that I have been a bit busier this week; either way I seem to have accumulated much fewer posts in this little bucket that I publish as “This week I have mostly been reading…”

It’s usually stuff outside of my blog roll, which has still had it’s highlights.
Coding horror Re-Encoding Your DVDs for instance, solved my recent PSP encoding conundrums by introducing me to handbrake. It also gave me some food for though regarding my DVD storage. (Where I do, I hold a complete rip or ISO.) This followed an earlier post from Mr Atwood’s post on Building Your Own Home Theater PC which was also interesting.

I have read other stuff too! Like, er, I poked around scheduling jobs in JBoss here.

I came across a list of Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done. I didn’t think much of most, but the Copy Link Text Firefox extension which I used for these two links is great!

I was needing to brush up a style sheet and wanted a clean way to apply drop shadows, which I found here.

I often use the in-line lists for page navigation, but I hadn’t come across the use of floats described in this post here and here. However, while looking for a slick way of producing “rounded corners”, I found an implementation using sliding doors that happened to have the drop shadow I was after as part of the border image here, though I must admit to preferring the variation I found here.

And when I needed to print CSS background images, this post proved most helpful.

Along the way, I stumbled across the site Position Is Everything which looked like it might be worth making a note of.

Following the news of the Spring Source Application Platform I need to look back at this post on web applications and OSGi.

I also enjoyed this post on converting Java to Groovy.

Following a little foray down the path of UML modelling XML Schemas for a colleague, this article articulated what I was trying to get across much better than I could have. Rational Software Architect unfortunately couldn’t quite grasp it quite as easily. No change there then…

I haven’t been reading as much this week. I’ve been tired.

Though the titbits that have stood out have included:

• Andrew Tokeley’s blog here
• an application to turn you into a Simpson’s character here
• the home page of The Kills, who I saw on Friday here
• Gareth’s trouble with his new PS3 here
• and Alex miller’s blog, here.

Some of my poking around in groovy on grails led me to a tutorial here.

This seemed well written and worked well and I explored a little more of his site and along the way I picked up a reference to a text on grails here.

Which itself enticed me along to the authors site here.

Where I found a link to an interesting take on the closures in Java debate here.

and an application that, if it works, might just negate the need that resulted me in dusting off my weblog here.

Useful, or at least vaguely interesting stuff on browser usage and trends here.

How to make a Sawed-off USB Key here.

Oh and that voice mail to text thing on last week’s gadget show that I must check out further here.