Web Developer

Ed Burnette published an informative article on ZDNet about the recent incompatibility problem with Eclipse and Java 6 update 21. Unfortunately the comments contain a lot of nasty accusations and finger-pointing, with people variously blaming Oracle or Eclipse or both for the mess… and even Ed’s article title seems a trifle unfair on Oracle.. [...]
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Over the last few posts we have been looking at the steps in building and deploying a Google App Engine application, it might be a good time to compare App Engine with Amazon EC2 which is a comparable service. Amazon EC2 the early entrant into cloud computing has been the leading player in this field [...]

In the Java world, you can build a RESTful web service in several ways: Some folks use JSR 311(JAX-RS) and its reference implementation Jersey, others use the Restlet framework, and some might even implement from scratch. Spring, the well-known framework for building Java EE applications, now supports REST in its MVC layer. This article introduces [...]

Tomcat 7 is the first major Tomcat release in quite a long while (three and a half years…and counting), since Dec 1, 2006 when Tomcat 6.0 was released. Tomcat 7 Beta was released on June 29th and a large number of people have already downloaded that snapshot to evaluate (or beat on) it. Should you [...]

The sleeping giant is back. With yesterday’s announcement of the new Windows Phone 7 I believe we are seeing the rise of Phone 7 as the iPhone killer. Forget Android, this is the one you need to pay attention to.
Why? Scale, style and apps are the key reasons. Not to mention one of the longest [...]

Earlier this month, Oracle released a new version of Java, 1.6.0_21 (also called 6u21). Unfortunately as Eclipse users quickly discovered, it was incompatible with Eclipse and Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) programs.
Bug 319514 in the Eclipse bug database has all the gory details, but in a nutshell, Oracle changed the company name property on java. [...]
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Patterns are big business in IT. You can’t get far in OO programming before hitting a book about design patterns, stressing the need for standardized solutions to particular problems. When it comes to web development though, design patterns never really hit off. Maybe because of the chaotic nature of the so-called web standards, maybe because [...]

“Your code is 100% bogus and should be taken out the back, lined up against a wall, and machine-gunned. ” There’s more…
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Flash websites use the most of Flash to provide a unique user experience through the graphic elements, animation and interaction. The problem was that creating Flash sites requires knowledge of Flash from both design and development sides. It can cost you time and money to hire a Flash designer or developer that can develop your [...]

Over the weekend, there was a tweet announcing that Google was going to provide “scholarships” to qualified women to attend JSConf.eu. There was then a tweet by another person calling this “disgusting” and “illegal.” Nicole Sullivan has a level-headed and well-articulated roundup of the back-and-forth and some of the surrounding issues, and I suggest you [...]