Category Archives: Platforms

Cookies in JSF

Posted on December 21, 2010 by neversleepz

If you ever need a reminder… Gareth Thomas Hill: Cookies in JSF. (hint) they are in the http servlet request and response that you get from the Faces ExternalContext

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Jvm web framework feature matrix

Posted on November 23, 2010 by neversleepz

Nice to know. A spreadsheet simply rating characteristics of each framework. Grails Spring MVC Rails are the top players JSF was one of the more poorly ranked. Though they didn’t differentiate between v1 or 2. http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AtkkDCT2WDMXdC1HOEtnUHpCejJMbUhGeGJWUmh5dVE&hl=en&output=html

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Creating mobile web applications with jQuery mobile and Grails

Posted on November 15, 2010 by neversleepz

Creating mobile web applications with jQuery mobile and Grails The blogger demonstrates how easy it is to integrate the new jquery mobile library with Grails and easily create mobile views in scaffolding. I wasn’t familiar with the grails install-templates command … Continue reading →

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mod_pagespeed

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Kon

There is a new mod from Google for Apache servers called mod_pagespeed that removes redundant HTML before sending it to the client.  Very neat idea.  Makes me shed a tear I am wanting to move our legacy php into a … Continue reading →

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Glassfish V3.0.1 and Update Tool

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Kon

When installing plugins for glassfish at work I would receive a Premature EOF just after accepting the license terms for the plugin. This would occur regardless of method used, updatetool cli, gui or web. Strangely it worked at home, but … Continue reading →

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Java EE, Spring, and why I care

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Kon

Finally a post that seems to be sticking up for the Spring framework. (nice change) Java EE, Spring, and why I care « techscouting through the news. Sure EJB 3.1 does make things easier, but it has taken a lot … Continue reading →

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PHP and GlassFish

Posted on October 5, 2010 by neversleepz

The Aquarium: PHP and GlassFish – Links Update. Two free solutions PHP JavaBridge or LRWPInJava.

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NoSQL at Twitter presentation

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Kon

Man these guys are smart.  http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/nosql-at-twitter-nosql-eu-2010 Talks about Twitters many different approaches to storage (Hadoop, Cassandra, FlockDB) and the tools used in querying of that data to answer questions (Pig)

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Embedding Tomcat 7 in your App

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Kon

So what if you ship with a plain old Apache server just to run some aging PHP.  If you have an server app running all the time, according to this post, it looks like you can embed Tomcat, just like … Continue reading →

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Facebook as a business platform

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Kon

I recently attended the Thoughtworks Quarterly Briefing which was about their Tech Radar – a whats hot in upcoming and existing software dev technologies.  One thing that came up as surprising was the idea of Facebook as a Business Platform.  … Continue reading →

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