Archive for September, 2008

Django on Dreamhost

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

It doesn't take much searching to suspect that Django on Dreamhost maby not be an ideal environment, but it does work. Running Django on Dreamhost involves using Fastcgi, which is officially supported by Django, but not a recommended configuration. I found following the official tutorial sufficient in setting up Django on ...

Upgrading Python on a Dreamhost Account

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Java is just my day job. In fact, it's pretty dull too sometimes. I like to venture out when I can and work with other technologies. In this case, I've been messing around with Django on my Dreamhost account. This short tutorial is intended to be the first of several ...

Bringing the Browser To The Server (Just Discovered This)

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

John Resig posted an awesome article a little over a year ago, and I'm just getting to it. I've been developing a javascript presentation, primarily focusing on scope and functions, to a group of Java developers. I've used JSUnit and Firebug to work with javascript quite a bit, but frankly, ...

Generating Excel reports without a single line of java code using Seam

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I still cannot reiterate enough, how much Seam is productive in developing rich web mvc apps. Take for example, a very common requirement where a rich datatable is present and users would want a "export to excel" functionality right next to each of these tables. With Seam, this is as ...

The Prototype Dollar

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

I have been slowly picking up javascript recently. I'm, well, not really impressed, but sometimes I find things I like about it. Here's something I like; the Prototype library adds a function, the dollar function, that looks like this: [javascript] function $() { var elements = new Array(); for (var i = 0; i ...

Running JSLint From Within Eclipse Using Rhino

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Mikko Ohtamaa provides a nice explanation of how to execute JSLint on a javascript file from within eclipse, using Rhino.

Grails Multiple Datasource Plugin

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Burt Beckwith discusses his new plugin - one I've been needing for a while!