November 2010 – Outrospective.org

November 28, 2010

[Presentation] Tomorrow’s Tech Today: HTML5

Groovy / Grails ‘personality’ (and I mean that in the most fondest use of the term) Scott Davis presents a great round up of some cool HTML features.

InfoQ: Tomorrow’s Tech Today: HTML5.

He introduces some good tools and utils that help the forward compatible specification be read by HTML4 browsers none the wiser.

Firstly the HTML5 CSS trick to treat all the new HTML5 elements (header, nav, footer, video) to be treated as block elements in all browsers (except IE) and the html5shiv that does the same thing for IE.

Trivia: <input type=”someType”> gets rendered as a textbox if yourbrowser doesnt knowhow to show it.

There are some references to these sites which talk more about HTML

DiveIntoHtml5.org – an upcoming o’reilly book you can read for free here

HTML 5 Rocks

He talks about some stuff I wasnt too aware of such as HTML5 caching support (5mb) and SQL (25mb but no FF or IE, but useful for iPhone and Android browsers)

html5demos.com

Modernizr (detect support for HTML5 & CSS3) – see findmebyip.com for an example.

“The goal is to program for HTML 5 and backfill for the rest of the browsers”

November 27, 2010

Android, Maven & Idea 10

An entry about how idea 10th has improved its Android support. There are still some issues but it is getting there.

http://www.teleal.org/weblog/software/Building%20Android%20applications%20with%20Maven%20and%20IntelliJ.html

November 23, 2010

Jvm web framework feature matrix

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

November 15, 2010

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 before which allows you to customise the scaffolding that gets generated. Pretty neat.

November 10, 2010

mod_pagespeed

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 Glassfish appserver so I cant take advantage of this, but still would be useful in future.

Optimization Made Easy with mod_pagespeed.