Thursday June 9th, 2005

Up for a while now. Let the dogs out. Got some work done. A little overcast. Hungry.

Update 10:42AM: Warning: technical, yet not descriptive enough to be of any value. The work on layout changing led to a need to save state with the onunload method. The problem is that the onunload method shouldn't submit a form because that would override the place the user was trying to go. So I started to consider an AJAX approach. Javascript will save the layout in the background automatically for the user. So I've gotten my first AJAX test page working. I'm using DWR, direct web remoting for java. Smooth. Very nice. The callback function isn't as explicitly explained in their doc, but is fairly easy to figure out once you get into creating a test. Now I need to see if I can get session info into the POJO and do some real work. Sorry for the technical blabbering.

Update 11:01AM: Hot damn. I'm able to get to authentication information, session information, etc. Basically, I'm able to use AJAX with my current framework, applying security and leveraging what I've already got. Very nice.

Update 11:44AM: Thinking about Vanessa's dad, undergoing surgery right about now. Rescheduled from early this morning until noon. Best of luck to Vanessa, her father and her family.