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Nov 30, 2010
iPad (iOS) Project – Oracle
Worldwide Enterprise Software Company – iPad Case Study Client Profile The client provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers. The Project Demonstrate a new ...
Leveraging Apache CXF and Maven to Generate Client Side Web Service Bindings
At a recent client, our team had the frequent need to integrate with internal and external systems via web services. Because we were consistently on very tight time lines and were not typically provided with ...
Nov 18, 2010
New Spring 3.0.5 Released (Hibernate 3.6.0 Final, too)
Just a quick note that on October 20, just in time for Halloween, the new version of the Spring framework, v3.0.5 was released. Oh yeah, Hibernate 3.6.0 is Final, too! I’ve converted a few projects, ...
Nov 16, 2010
Grails Plumbing: Spring AOP Interceptors With Annotations
In my last post we covered how to use some of the Spring AOP Interceptors in our Grails project for things like simple trace logging and basic performance monitoring. One thing that I mentioned in ...
Presentation: Intro to iPad Development
Senior Consultant Steve McCoole will present an introduction to developing applications for the iPad. Steve will cover the three main approaches to creating applications for the iPad: native, web applications and hybrid, what you need to develop each type of application, tips and tricks to make enhance your development environment, simple example programs with and without Interface Builder and ways to demonstrate your applications to interested clients. ...
Nov 11, 2010
Lights, Camera, ActionSheet!: Updating iOS ShareKit’s Twitter service to provide photo and message support together in a cohesive UI
ShareKit (<a href="http://getsharekit.com/">http://getsharekit.com</a>) is a popular, open-source, drop-in solution for implementing social sharing features in iOS applications. ShareKit does not yet have support for selecting/capturing a photo and sending it as part of a Twitter message. However, thanks to ShareKit’s open-source nature and framework for extensibility, I was able to add this functionality without much fanfare, and still leverage the recently added img.ly support to link to that image. An overview of an initial form of this implementation is outlined in this blog post....
Nov 9, 2010
Unit Testing your Persistence Tier code
While writing unit tests is now common, there is still a struggle for writing effective unit tests.  When it comes to an ORM persistence tier framework, a variety of solutions exist.  This article will discuss ...
Nov 4, 2010
Why Grails?
I’ve been working with Grails for most of the past year and a half and I think it’s great. In fact, all of my colleagues that have worked with Grails agree and none of us ...