Recently, I started working on some projects where I had to prototype various service end point technologies, including REST and AMF. During this process, I worked out a fairly nice prototype project template that makes setting up a project fairly simple and quick. I plan to write about the template more fully in a forthcoming [...]
Agile projects have been around for years now, but for companies that are still new to the concepts and process, some simple pitfalls can delay your project. I have seen projects at companies that have run into challenges so here are some ideas for successful starts and pitfalls to avoid.
What could be so hard [...]
Here we’ll try to get a Hudson Continuous Integration server building from a monitored Subversion directory by adding these softwares and their Apache HTTP and Tomcat hosts.
Assumptions
Much of this discussion assumes you’re working with Linux (particularly assumed is that you’re running Ubuntu or other Debian-based distributions), but with a little care it can be used [...]
As consultants we often find ourselves in a new office several times a year and it is up to us to carry our green habits with us as we go. Programs offered at offices are most often by, for, and about employees leaving consultants and contractors out of the loop on available facilities and [...]
Bizarre JavaScript errors surfaced after upgrading Spring and Spring MVC. Here’s what we found.
The problem appeared when we had a form-backing object that held a list of child objects and some complex JavaScript for interacting with the form. Spring’s form tags starting at version 2.5 treat collections differently than in older versions, although this wasn’t apparent at first.
Tis’ the season for predictions into 2010. After researching data from various sources, and talking with many colleagues over the past year and into 2010, I’ve put my finger on a handful of things that popped out at me. None of these predictions are groundbreaking, they’re fairly common sense. But, I think [...]
Along with Grails we are seeing a resurgence of the shell and the command line. And if there is anything experienced unix users hate, it’s asking a newbie how their environment is configured and getting a blank stare in return. Well I solved this problem years ago with a simple shell script — [...]
