How Has SitePoint Made you a Better Designer?
2008-09-10 09:49“How has SitePoint made you a better web designer? Ever since you joined the SitePoint Forums, who has been the most helpful in solving the problems you have brought to the table?” ... [阅读全文]
No Mediator vs. No Singleton in Cairngorm & PureMVC
2008-09-10 09:44I had an errand to run yesterday and my peer at ESRIA, Brian Riley, had some interesting news, so it was a perfect time to call. After we discussed his good news, I then veered the conversation to lack of a formalized Mediator in Cairngorm to get his thoughts. Also known as “Abstract Brian”, he’s a... [阅读全文]
JSRs for Morons #1 - JSR 303: Bean Validation
2008-09-10 09:42JSR 303: Bean Validation is a specification in the early draft stage that is looking to add an API to Java that would allow developers a consistent way to validate JavaBeans. Anyone that has written any software for use by people other than themselves certainly understands the meaning of the old sa... [阅读全文]
Zebra Striping: More Data for the Case
2008-09-10 08:44I recently conducted a study into the helpfulness (or lack thereof) of zebra striping—the shading of alternate rows in a table or form. The study measured performance as users completed a series of tasks and found no statistically significant improvement in accuracy—and very little statistically si... [阅读全文]
Rest With Rails Part 2 : Serving XML, JSON and Atom
2008-09-10 08:26Every resource has a representation, in fact, a given resource can have more than one representation. Users accessing our task manager will want to see an HTML page listing all their tasks, or they may choose to use a feed reader to subscribe to their task list; feed readers expect an Atom or RSS d... [阅读全文]
Top 200 Tech Blogs (Programming Blogs)
2008-09-10 06:14A list of top programming/development blogs within a larger list of top tech blogs. Not surprisingly, Joel Spolsky is there — but what about the other entries? Are these really the best development blogs? (And yes, DZone is on there.) ... [阅读全文]
Message Boxes with CSS
2008-09-10 05:27Following the line of the previous post, here is another set of reusable classes I like to use. This time to create Message Boxes which I found myself using in almost every site I make, mostly on the forms. These Message Boxes are useful to display and inform in a nice way different messages, like ... [阅读全文]
Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code
2008-09-10 05:15Software Managers all around the globe, need to have some metric to estimate their workers. Sometimes the management event wants to create a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. One of those methods is called SLOC - Source Line... [阅读全文]
A Grails Memory Leak
2008-09-10 04:57I’m in the process of building a large database to load-test our application at work. Index usage and execution plans are quite different with many rows than with a few, so I’m creating millions of rows in tables for domain classes that will see a lot of activity to find missing indexes... [阅读全文]
GWT and OSGi
2008-09-10 04:52A number of people have asked me how I configured GWT and OSGi. Here is a short tutorial on how to do this. ... [阅读全文]
Google, you should know better. I fixed your memory leak for you.
2008-09-10 04:30We investigated, and after some digging figured out that our recent addition of Google Analytics was to blame. Surely Google Analytics, used by thousands upon thousands of websites, couldn’t be to blame? Plus it’s GOOGLE! Google doesn’t make mistakes like that. However, after some... [阅读全文]
Engadget Editor Admits to Creating “Boycott Gizmodo” Site
2008-09-10 04:02Former Engadget editor Ryan Block has put it into practice by tapping former Gizmodo editor Brian Lam — now the site’s editorial director — to help advise them on their new gadget startup gdgt. In doing so, Block has ended — or at least set aside — a long-term gadget-blog rivalry which frothed... [阅读全文]
The iPhone App Experience is About to be Destroyed… By Ads
2008-09-10 04:02“Ads on the iPhone deliver strong engagement for advertisers with triple, on average, the already high click-through-rates seen on mobile,” the company claimed in a press release. If that is indeed turns out to be a sustainable metric, advertisers are likely to view as iPhone as platform worth suppo... [阅读全文]
What to do When Your Work is Criticized Publicly
2008-09-10 04:00People can criticize an opinion you shared, a new WordPress template you designed, or even a simple question you asked on your blog. Since we spend most of our working hours online, we’re especially prone to public displays of criticism, some of which are inflammatory. ... [阅读全文]
Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows: Page 1
2008-09-10 03:59In the wake of Google’s release of the new WebKit-based Chrome browser, some technology enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine. Despite the growing popularity of WebKit, those who understand the differences between the two rende... [阅读全文]
32 bit JDK on a 64 bit Ubuntu System
2008-09-10 03:57If you have more than 3GB on your machine and you’re running Ubuntu you’ve probably had to figure out how to access that additional memory – the default Ubuntu desktop kernel will only allow access to the first 3GB. You can install the server kernel, but that’s been tuned for a server with differen... [阅读全文]
CSS Absolute positioning in Firefox and IE
2008-09-10 03:56A couple of notes regarding absolute positioning in FF and IE… ... [阅读全文]
Select Box Factory v1.0
2008-09-10 03:44There are a wide variety of ways to use these special dropdowns and I hope people find them intuitive to use. They are part of a more extensive “ui factory class” that I have created to plug into mooTools. After you play with them you may get a better sense of why you would want to use ... [阅读全文]
The state of scripting
2008-09-10 03:20Scripting used to be a quick fix or a spare-time hobby; today it’s become a must-have for even the Java-based developer’s toolkit. Get perspective on what’s next for dynamic languages, from leading lights in JavaScript, Rhino, Perl, IronRuby, Python, and Tcl. ... [阅读全文]
delsolr - Using Lucene Solr in Ruby for simplified faceted search
2008-09-10 03:08delsolr is a light weight ruby wrapper for solr. It’s goal is to preserve all the power of the solr webservice while keeping the interface as simple and ruby-esque as possible. ... [阅读全文]
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