I can do it. I'll have a bit plane time coming up :) On Friday, April 1, 2011, Shane Bryzak<sbryzak(a)redhat.com> wrote: > Guys, > > I'd like to start up a weekly Seam module spotlight. Basically, each > week I'd like one of you to write up an article that we can publish on > in.relation.to that shows off the best features of your module. > Preferably the article would be use-case centric, as opposed to the > feature-centric style that we generally write with in the reference > documentation. For example, if I was writing a blog post about the > persistence module I would make the point that if you're writing POJO > beans to implement your business layer that I would not have transaction > support by default, and that is where the transaction features of the > persistence module come in. I'd also explain how it could be useful in > other container environments, such as Tomcat or even Java SE. > > This style of writing is more likely to get your readers to a point > where they understand why your module is as cool as we say it is, as > they can relate its coolness in terms of real life use cases. Whereas > explaining things from a feature point of view might leave some confused > as to how they can actually *use* that feature in their own projects. > > Anyway, I'm looking for a brave volunteer to go first. Ideally we'd get > the first spotlight article published by the end of next week (before > the 9th) so that should leave enough time to put together an informative > article. > > Shane > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev >

If Jason does the first, I'll follow up with the second, using his as an example :P Brian On 04/02/2011 08:10 AM, Jason Porter wrote: > I can do it. I'll have a bit plane time coming up :) > > On Friday, April 1, 2011, Shane Bryzak<sbryzak(a)redhat.com> wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I'd like to start up a weekly Seam module spotlight. Basically, each >> week I'd like one of you to write up an article that we can publish on >> in.relation.to that shows off the best features of your module. >> Preferably the article would be use-case centric, as opposed to the >> feature-centric style that we generally write with in the reference >> documentation. For example, if I was writing a blog post about the >> persistence module I would make the point that if you're writing POJO >> beans to implement your business layer that I would not have transaction >> support by default, and that is where the transaction features of the >> persistence module come in. I'd also explain how it could be useful in >> other container environments, such as Tomcat or even Java SE. >> >> This style of writing is more likely to get your readers to a point >> where they understand why your module is as cool as we say it is, as >> they can relate its coolness in terms of real life use cases. Whereas >> explaining things from a feature point of view might leave some confused >> as to how they can actually *use* that feature in their own projects. >> >> Anyway, I'm looking for a brave volunteer to go first. Ideally we'd get >> the first spotlight article published by the end of next week (before >> the 9th) so that should leave enough time to put together an informative >> article. >> >> Shane >> _______________________________________________ >> seam-dev mailing list >> seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev >> _______________________________________________ seam-dev mailing list seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev

I'll volunteer the JMS module for #3, since we're targeting a release this week; unless you think it's too early. On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Shane Bryzak <sbryzak(a)redhat.com <mailto:sbryzak@redhat.com>> wrote: Awesome, consider yourself locked in! Any takers for the third one? On 03/04/11 08:01, Brian Leathem wrote: > If Jason does the first, I'll follow up with the second, using his as an > example :P > > Brian > > On 04/02/2011 08:10 AM, Jason Porter wrote: >> I can do it. I'll have a bit plane time coming up :) >> >> On Friday, April 1, 2011, Shane Bryzak&lt;sbryzak(a)redhat.com <mailto:sbryzak@redhat.com>> wrote: >>> Guys, >>> >>> I'd like to start up a weekly Seam module spotlight. Basically, each >>> week I'd like one of you to write up an article that we can publish on >>> in.relation.to <http://in.relation.to> that shows off the best features of your module. >>> Preferably the article would be use-case centric, as opposed to the >>> feature-centric style that we generally write with in the reference >>> documentation. For example, if I was writing a blog post about the >>> persistence module I would make the point that if you're writing POJO >>> beans to implement your business layer that I would not have transaction >>> support by default, and that is where the transaction features of the >>> persistence module come in. I'd also explain how it could be useful in >>> other container environments, such as Tomcat or even Java SE. >>> >>> This style of writing is more likely to get your readers to a point >>> where they understand why your module is as cool as we say it is, as >>> they can relate its coolness in terms of real life use cases. Whereas >>> explaining things from a feature point of view might leave some confused >>> as to how they can actually *use* that feature in their own projects. >>> >>> Anyway, I'm looking for a brave volunteer to go first. Ideally we'd get >>> the first spotlight article published by the end of next week (before >>> the 9th) so that should leave enough time to put together an informative >>> article. >>> >>> Shane >>> _______________________________________________ >>> seam-dev mailing list >>> seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:seam-dev@lists.jboss.org> >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev >>> > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:seam-dev@lists.jboss.org> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev _______________________________________________ seam-dev mailing list seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:seam-dev@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev

Attached is the markdown file for the first entry. On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:36, Shane Bryzak <sbryzak(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Guys, > > I'd like to start up a weekly Seam module spotlight. Basically, each > week I'd like one of you to write up an article that we can publish on > in.relation.to that shows off the best features of your module. > Preferably the article would be use-case centric, as opposed to the > feature-centric style that we generally write with in the reference > documentation. For example, if I was writing a blog post about the > persistence module I would make the point that if you're writing POJO > beans to implement your business layer that I would not have transaction > support by default, and that is where the transaction features of the > persistence module come in. I'd also explain how it could be useful in > other container environments, such as Tomcat or even Java SE. > > This style of writing is more likely to get your readers to a point > where they understand why your module is as cool as we say it is, as > they can relate its coolness in terms of real life use cases. Whereas > explaining things from a feature point of view might leave some confused > as to how they can actually *use* that feature in their own projects. > > Anyway, I'm looking for a brave volunteer to go first. Ideally we'd get > the first spotlight article published by the end of next week (before > the 9th) so that should leave enough time to put together an informative > article. > > Shane > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev > -- Jason Porter http://lightguard-jp.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/lightguardjp Software Engineer Open Source Advocate Author of Seam Catch - Next Generation Java Exception Handling PGP key id: 926CCFF5 PGP key available at: keyserver.net, pgp.mit.edu _______________________________________________ seam-dev mailing list seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev