Forget DSLs… What About Scala That Represents ASCII Art!
Archive for January, 2008
links for 2008-01-30
January 30th, 2008
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WriteMaps Site Map Application: Create, edit, and share your sitemaps online. (tags: sitemap webdesign web2.0 generator web sitemaps)
links for 2008-01-29
January 29th, 2008
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OpenID (tags: OpenID security identity web2.0 authentication opensource Internet) ilkinbalkanay.blogspot.com: ReadWriteLock example in Java (tags: java5 threads multithreading readwritelock) Carlo Bonamico’s weblog » Blog Archive » How to programmatically define Spring beans (tags: spring programming bean) The busy Java developer’s guide to Scala: Functional programming for the object oriented (tags: scala programming language tutorial development [...]
HTML5 Shim in IE
January 26th, 2008
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There’s been something that cropped up as of late thanks to a comment made by Sjoerd Visscher and expanded on further by John Resig here … it seems that by using document.createElement() for a previously unknown tag makes IE start parsing that tag differently. As John points out, you can even apply CSS rules for [...]
What Is Simple Design To You?
January 26th, 2008
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Lately I’ve been struggling with the question of how to layout a project in a way to make it simpler to understand and modify. So I thought it would be a good idea to pose the following question. Given a project using a configuration mechanism and view technology you are least familiar with, what would [...]
IE Memory Leak Detector
January 26th, 2008
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The newest tool in my javascript development toolkit: IE Javascript Memory Leak Detector.
Making extJS More Accessible to Java Developers
January 22nd, 2008
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With my recent interest in extjs, I was playing with the idea of making a Struts2/WebWork component library or a tag library to handle a lot of the boilerplate extjs code (i.e. creating layouts and such) but, luckily, discovered someone beat me to the punch! I randomly came across ExtTLD this morning while sifting through [...]
jQuery: Binding Submit on a Form’s Action Attribute
January 17th, 2008
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Sigh… got bit a little today trying to do something with jQuery. I just could not for the life of me understand it! I was wanting to bind a submit handler to a form and, in trying to be clever, thought I would bind the form based on it’s action versus adding an id to [...]
My Geek New Years Resolutions
January 12th, 2008
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Of course, my main resolution this year is to undo the 50 to 60 pounds I put on over the course of 2007 (it’s troubling when you increase your pants size by 8 sizes!), but in addition to that I have several goals for 2008 that I hope to accomplish. So, here they are, in [...]
Mid Mo XP User Group Meeting, January 16th
January 11th, 2008
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if you happen to be near Columbia, MO around January 16th, feel free to join us at CARFAX for the Mid Mo XP usergroup meeting. This week we’ll have a very special guest speaker: Ron Jeffries, the author of Extreme Programming Installed and the owner of the XProgramming site. The topic of Ron’s presentation is [...]
