links for 2008-01-14
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Originally I installed Ruby on Rails on my MacBook by compiling from source, closely following the Hive Logic guide. However, I found that I couldn’t deploy using Capistrano because of Open SSL errors.
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Application Architect for ThoughtWorks, Neal Ford comments on the homebrew (or what he calls craptaculous) framework and what he thinks of Grails as it approaches 1.0:
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Historically transaction-processing systems have relied primarily, if not solely, on databases to handle the ACID aspects of any IO activities that required to be transactional. The support for transactions for file system operations has been weak at eith
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Ruby 1.9 was released on Christmas Day of 2007 as version 1.9.0, after undergoing a year or so as an experimental testbed for changes to the Ruby language and core class library.
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w3af is a Web application attack and Audit Framework. The project goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend. This project is currently hosted at SourceForge. For further information, y
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This is the home of the forge Maven Gwt Plugin [ Updated 2008-01-08 ]
To update from a previous version use mvn -U
Why another Maven Gwt Plugin ?
These plugin provide an easy way to compile your gwt sources when using a Rapid Application dev
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Acegi implements for page based application, but in gwt application, there is just
one page and many small rpc request, we should holder the request.
in this implement, we use acegi’s filter as much as posible and we get the same
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Tonight, we organized our biweekly XKE (Xebia Knowledge Exchange), which is a forum where we update each other on interesting developments or have discussions on various topics.
One of the topics of tonight was: “what keeps us programming in Java”? The
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Rails and GWT are both hiding Javascript manipulation from the Ajax development cycle. GWT chose to solve that by using a compiler which will convert Java into browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML. Jon Crosby made it possible to use GWT over Rails with G
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The Google Widget Toolkit allows Ajax applications to be developed in java code using the traditional UI widget paradigm. The toolkit includes support for RPC, but not for comet style Ajax push.
Online Gaming is an excellent use-case for Ajax and I’ve
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This is a post that has been a couple weeks in the making (in my head), but the more that time passes by the less interested I am in writing it. Nevertheless, there are a couple of points I want to get out there both for the record and for possible discus
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I saw an article by Robert Cline on Coherence and TimesTen. I’ve heard some of these questions from customers, since TimesTen and Coherence have both been used to solve some extremely challenging scalability and performance problems in almost every major
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Google have lately been praised for their chart API and my esteemed colleague Ed Eliot has a workaround for its restrictions in terms of caching and server hits.
I played around a bit with it and thought it very cool but it felt a bit clunky to add all
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Everybody refactors (I hope). But what if your standard refactoring just isn’t good enough? Take the next step in refactoring into Groovy code and see how easy it is to integrate Groovy into your existing Java projects.
The challenge
While worki
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Last three days I have been to JavaPolis 2007 in Antwerp. It was the first time that I went to this conference and I really liked it. Great things about it are it’s location and, most of all, it’s speakers. The location is a cinema. Slides and demo’s are
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Checked exceptions
Its fairly well known that checked exceptions were a kind of experiment in Java. Its also fairly well known that other newer languages are not choosing to follow. The basic reason is that as a language feature they haven’t met their