Date Driven Development or what I like to call DEE-DEE-DEE
The company I work for has recently undergone a profoundly dumb transformation. Years ago when management seemed to care, we had a small development team striving to move toward a more Agile, test-driven methodology, we scheduled releases based on a realistic feature-set with realistic estimates and due dates. We were on top of [...]
An AJAX email contact form using DWR and Scriptaculous
Coming from the Java Server side, my JavaScript skills are pretty limited, a lot of the AJAX frameworks still require a good deal of JavaScript, or wildly complex configurations, not to mention having to take into consideration how you plan to accept and answer the asynchronous calls on the server side. I needed a [...]
Eclipse - Open Resource Shortcut - Ctrl+Shift+R
The biggest time-saver I’ve stumbled upon in Eclipse is the Open Resource Shortcut. Under the Navigate menu is the Open Resource command, shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R, which opens a window that allows you to type a search for any file that exists in your workspace, in your search you can use the ? to replace a [...]
15 Great Resources for Up and Coming CSS Designers
Working at a corporation with a bunch of stuffy Java Developers it seems like there’s a resistance against using purely CSS for layout, decoration, and design. These Java Developers love their tables and don’t want to let them go. Recently we hired two CSS designers, all they think do and breath is CSS, [...]
Setup Eclipse and Tomcat to play nice together
Eclipse is by far my favorite IDE, which makes Rational Application Developer bearable. The one thing I’ve been spoiled on in RAD is being able to run the WebSphere Test Environment inside the development environment and be able to have some level of hot deploy when modifying classes or jsp’s in the web project. [...]