Jim and I are doing our ajax presentation in Appleton, WI, tonight. The fox valley JUG web site has more details. Jim has added a very brief intro to Echo2, nothing too substantial. I changed the DWR sample a little bit to match JSON, but now that I’ve finished moving I should [...]
We’ve been cramming all our belongings into a pod the last few days and shipping the rest off to the in-laws house. I think I was up till midnight two nights ago and 3 am last night. We finally have the entire house cleaned and emptied out - now there are just a [...]
I finally got around to watching the second Rails movie this morning. It really is very impressive as David blasts through a web blog application from zero to very functional in 15 minutes. No xml, no class path issues, and only one server restart - even with db schema changes. If [...]
If you get errors attemtping to use DWR with Tomcat 5.5+ with a stack trace similiar to:
342192658 [http-8080-Processor3] ERROR org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/Ajax] - StandardWrapper.Throwable
javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError: Provider org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl not found
at javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory.newInstance(Unknown Source)
It is due to an issue with the xml-apis.jar that Tomcat includes in the common/endorsed directory (which is also in the tomcat classpath by default). This [...]
Google Maps has added a “hybrid mode” which overlays the satellite view on top of the normal mapping view using PNG transparency. It looks very cool. Also see the short Google Blog entry on it. Via slashdot.
update 8/31/05: I have written part two with some possible answers. Also, renamed the post.
I did a technical evaluation for a candidate my employer was looking at awhile ago, so I had an opportunity to try and figure out a good set of technical questions for a prospective intermediate level Java web developer. [...]
You see this in your logs:
[7/22/05 15:30:27:272 CDT] 10431043 ThreadMonitor W WSVR0605W: Thread “Servlet.Engine.Transports : 0″ (35b135b1) has been active for 767,637 milliseconds and may be hung. There are 1 threads in total in the server that may be hung.
[7/22/05 15:33:34:094 CDT] 35b135b1 ThreadMonitor W WSVR0606W: Thread “Servlet.Engine.Transports : 0″ (35b135b1) was previously reported [...]
There has to be a tool or script out there that can do the following, given the root of your web app:
validate XHTML according to the doctype
validate CSS
validate Javascript syntax
check all links to ensure they return an OK status code (recursively if desired)
I know there are plenty of ways to do each of these steps [...]
Justin Gehtland blogs about getting the importance of getting the “last 20%” right when shipping a technical book - DHH’s and Dave Thomas’ approach with the beta Rails book is te best way to make sure and get that last 20 pefect before shipping. I agree completely and will go one step further - [...]
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