[Lift] Why do names of Boolean variables with a ? at the end have a preceding _ character?

2009-03-12 Thread mal3
Why do names of Boolean variables with a ? at the end have a preceding _ character? I see this in some Lift code. There must be some reason for it -- perhaps a Scala-ly reason -- that escapes me. Mal. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[Lift] Why did Lift invent the Can (or Box) class, when there's an existing Scala Option class?

2009-03-12 Thread mal3
Why did Lift invent the Can (or Box) class, when there's an existing Scala Option class? This is another naive 2-year-old question to ask. But I'm very curious to find out. Mal. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[Lift] Re: Why do names of Boolean variables with a ? at the end have a preceding _ character?

2009-03-12 Thread David Pollak
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:57 AM, mal3 malcolm.gor...@gmail.com wrote: Why do names of Boolean variables with a ? at the end have a preceding _ character? I see this in some Lift code. There must be some reason for it -- perhaps a Scala-ly reason -- that escapes me. Yes, you cannot mix

[Lift] Re: Why did Lift invent the Can (or Box) class, when there's an existing Scala Option class?

2009-03-12 Thread David Pollak
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:58 AM, mal3 malcolm.gor...@gmail.com wrote: Why did Lift invent the Can (or Box) class, when there's an existing Scala Option class? This is another naive 2-year-old question to ask. But I'm very curious to find out. Heh... discussing this issue set off the worst

[Lift] Re: Lift-friendly Web Hosting

2009-03-12 Thread Ilya Klyuchnikov
You may look at STAX: http://www.stax.net/index.jsp They claimed that they are some kind of appengine in java. STAX is in beta now so serving is free. I use it as a playground for my lift applications. One of them is http://spsc.ilyushkin.staxapps.net STAX provides Tomcat only right now. Ilya.

[Lift] Re: MappedTextarea problem

2009-03-12 Thread DavidV
I'm working on making my own style sheet now, thanks for the help. One more question: What if I have multiple text areas on one page but what them to be of different sizes? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[Lift] Fwd: Official Siemens SIS Press Release about ESME released

2009-03-12 Thread David Pollak
ESME is Scala and Lift based and is in production @ Siemens. -- Forwarded message -- From: Hirsch, Richard richard.hir...@siemens.com Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:45 AM Subject: Official Siemens SIS Press Release about ESME released To: p...@apache.org,

[Lift] Re: MappedTextarea problem

2009-03-12 Thread Joachim A.
Hi, just use different CSS classes. For example: textarea class=large/textarea textarea class=small/textarea with the CSS code textarea.large { height:200px; width:400px; } textarea.small { height:100px; width:200px; } will give you two textareas with differnt sizes. Just have a look at some

[Lift] Required goal not found: archetype:generate

2009-03-12 Thread erik.fris...@googlemail.com
Hi guys, I am just starting out with lift. I wanted to work my way through the Getting Started Example. But I just can't get maven to work correctly. When I run mvn archetype:generate -U -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb - DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-blank -DarchetypeVersion=0.10 -

[Lift] Re: Google search results

2009-03-12 Thread James Matlik
Why not have those links generate 301 redirects to the new site locations? It won't do much for people's existing bookmarks, but should allow search engines to update without the dead links. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Timothy Perrett timo...@getintheloop.euwrote: In short, no. We can't

[Lift] Re: Fwd: Official Siemens SIS Press Release about ESME released

2009-03-12 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
Awesome ! On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:03 AM, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: ESME is Scala and Lift based and is in production @ Siemens. -- Forwarded message -- From: Hirsch, Richard richard.hir...@siemens.com Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:45 AM Subject:

[Lift] Re: Required goal not found: archetype:generate

2009-03-12 Thread TylerWeir
What do you get from mvn -version ? On Mar 12, 12:30 pm, erik.fris...@googlemail.com erik.fris...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi guys, I am just starting out with lift. I wanted to work my way through the Getting Started Example. But I just can't get maven to work correctly. When I run mvn

[Lift] Re: Required goal not found: archetype:generate

2009-03-12 Thread erik.fris...@googlemail.com
Hi again, I figured this one out. During some fixing I unwittingly overwrote my .bash_profile, reverting maven to the 2.0.6 version. I am running Leopard. I don't get this error anymoreyou guessed it, I get another. Now I get this: The desired archetype does not exist

[Lift] Re: Fwd: Official Siemens SIS Press Release about ESME released

2009-03-12 Thread Alexander Kellett
tiny url version to save some people mobile device long url correction hell... ;) http://tinyurl.com/cfnmcu On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:03 PM, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: ESME is Scala and Lift based and is in production @ Siemens. -- Forwarded message --

[Lift] Re: Required goal not found: archetype:generate

2009-03-12 Thread TylerWeir
Oh, by the way, pro-tip: You can poke around in the mvn repo online here: http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases/net/liftweb/ You can see that the older command was looking for version 0.1 of lift-archetype-blank and that's just crazy talk! Ty On Mar 12, 1:09 pm, TylerWeir tyler.w...@gmail.com

[Lift] Re: Required goal not found: archetype:generate

2009-03-12 Thread erik.fris...@googlemail.com
You are indeed right, my PDF was outdated. I have to admit though I have no clue how that happened, I downloaded it today. Anyway, I ran the following command: mvn archetype:generate -U \ -DarchetypeGroupId:net.liftweb \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-blank \ -DarchetypeVersion=1.0 \

[Lift] Re: Required goal not found: archetype:generate

2009-03-12 Thread Alexander Kellett
Ah. Feel much better.. Thought it was just me and never took the time to look into this. I get the same thing... Looking at mvn -X I see: [DEBUG] (f) remoteArtifactRepositories = [[central] - http://repo1.maven.org/maven2] Googling for a while helps not... any ideas? On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at

[Lift] Re: Required goal not found: archetype:generate

2009-03-12 Thread TylerWeir
o, k. Since I'm getting the same error and I'm unsure why, try this on: mvn -e archetype:generate then you'll get a list mvn can make for you. lift-blank is # 32. You then fill bits and pieces yourself like this: Choose a number:

[Lift] Re: Required goal not found: archetype:generate

2009-03-12 Thread TylerWeir
Erik, I have sent you some mail. And I used the internet. Tyler On Mar 12, 1:34 pm, TylerWeir tyler.w...@gmail.com wrote: o, k.  Since I'm getting the same error and I'm unsure why, try this on: mvn -e archetype:generate then you'll get a list mvn can make for you.  lift-blank is #

[Lift] Re: Required goal not found: archetype:generate

2009-03-12 Thread Alexander Kellett
Few hours of playing with maven (multiple versions) and getting increasingly annoyed by it... and I suddenly revisited this part of the command: -DarchetypeGroupId:net.liftweb : should be =! Works just fine after that change :) Alex On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:34 PM, TylerWeir

[Lift] Re: Google search results

2009-03-12 Thread David Bernard
It'll be done next week-end. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 17:43, James Matlik james.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Why not have those links generate 301 redirects to the new site locations? It won't do much for people's existing bookmarks, but should allow search engines to update without the dead links.

[Lift] JPA archetype

2009-03-12 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
I've checked it into the jpaarchetype branch. I need to work with DavidB to get the ScalaJPA 1.0 release properly deployed on scala-tools.org before it can really be used, but it does work at this point if you do a local install of ScalaJPA 1.0. I'm going to wait to merge into master until that's