This post will detail the creation of a Jquery Mobile Panel, like the Facebook app, customized with menu items and icons for a functional chunk of code ready to drop in your next JQM project. This provides a centralized place … MORE

Information technology is moving faster all the time. But, if information technology is progressing rapidly, Why does it takes so long to do web development? How do intelligent technologists solve these problems? Share this infographic: http://www.objectpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/why-does-web-development-take-so-long.pdf

The Problem: You have an extensive suite of Geb functional tests running against Firefox and it takes a long time to run. You switch your tests over to PhantomJS; now they run twice as fast! But five percent of the … MORE

It happens sometimes that a web page isn’t using UTF-8, but there’s a need to display UTF-8 data. MORE

“The frontend code”. It’s often prefixed with “A fix to the…” and suffixed with “… due to a bug in Internet Explorer”. Why is this? JavaScript unit testing is easy due to a plethora of testing frameworks. But how do … MORE

Converting a single-threaded application to a many-threaded application is often times a tricky proposition. There is more to just the challenge of refactoring the code to work in a concurrent fashion. Tricky little unexpected details from the deep, dark depths … MORE

Sometimes in iOS, something that seems like it should be easy to do can, be a bit more complicated than you would expect or can be difficult to remember since you don’t do it very often.  This is often the … MORE

The core of GWT framework for async communication to the server is through the async callback interface. Its interface is rather simple, but unfortunately, as with a lot GWT development the simplicity is lost with the the amount of boiler … MORE

When externalizing grails app configurations for multiple environments I want to ensure values are provided for all the required/expected properties.  So I wrote a plugin to help. Validating Expected and Required Properties Simply add something like this to Config.groovy validate … MORE

On a recent client project, I used the Facebook SDK plugin (http://grails.org/plugin/facebook-sdk) to integrate Facebook into our Grails app. I’ve never worked with this plugin before (or done any Facebook development for that matter), so it was a learning experience. … MORE