about 7 months ago - No comments
As a Google Apps admin I received the following email this past Friday, announcing that IE 6 will no longer be supported by the end of 2010. This is fantastic news, hopefully others will follow suit and convince those users hanging on to this god awful browser to move on to better things. If you
about 2 years ago - 21 comments
I was recently in need of a stock quote web service in order to display quote information and charts for a corporate website I was working on, so I started looking around for something, free of course. I kept reading that the most common example of web as a service is the stock quote example,
about 2 years ago - 18 comments
Once a project is created in Eclipse Europa of a certain type, it’s not the most straight forward process of changing the project to a different type. For example you have a project that Eclipse considers to be a Java project, but it’s actually a Web Project, you don’t get to take advantage of all
about 2 years ago - 19 comments
Ran into some issues on some of our Java sites today and needed a quick fix to protect the sites from malicious Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attempts. If you’re not aware of what XSS is and have websites that have sensitive user data, you may want to read up, you’re probably vulnerable, which means your
about 2 years ago - 8 comments
I recently wrote up an article on SEO Friendly URL’s for J2EE frameworks, while my tomcat implementations and WebSphere 5.1 implementations of the URLRewriteFilter were seemless, I ran into a problem on WebSphere 6.1 that caused me to rack my brain. The Output urls in the page were being rewritten fine, which is usually a
about 2 years ago - 25 comments
I’m working on a photo gallery application running on Java 6 using Tomcat 6, JQuery for the client side, and images and xml generated from Picasa. I needed several sizes of images for thumbnails and animations and I wasn’t about to create multiple image sizes with Fireworks (I’m a lazy developer). Doing what every lazy
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
I’m sure the bloggers will be chattering about this one this morning, especially the Ajax-centric blogs. Hats off to Google for another well done Ajax application. Google launched their Powerpoint equivalent in their Docs suite, which is getting closer and closer to providing a viable online replacement, or at least a supplement, to Microsoft Office.
about 2 years ago - 10 comments
There always comes that time, when you’re debugging a Java application, when you get to that compiled code inside that open source jar that you added to make your life easier. Whether there’s an actual bug or you’re just trying to understand some behavior or weirdness you’re getting from calling this third party API, sometimes
about 3 years ago - 17 comments
By corporate mandate I’ve been using Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3.1.0.3984, that version number is ridiculous and ought to tell us something, to develop Java EE web applications on and off for about 6 months now and I’ve never been so frustrated with a development environment in my life. I hear it from seasoned Oracle developers that
about 3 years ago - 10 comments
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 framework
about 3 years ago
nice blog