September 2010
8 posts
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#playframework, #scala, #siena, #gae fun
In my last post, I mentioned that I created a simple (very simple!) Google App Engine hosted Play! webapp, written using Scala. The webapp simply tracks people who visit my blog. More accurately, it tracks people who view a little PNG that one of the methods renders. If someone GETs the image, I capture the visitor’s IP address and the time. This won’t be replacing anyone’s...
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play!ing with scala
I decided to try my hand at learning Scala. It’s supposedly the “next big JVM language” and the “Java killer” if you believe the hype machine. Personally, I don’t think that’s true. I think the next big JVM language that replaces Java will be a future Java. If there’s one thing Oracle knows how to do well, it’s making money, and that...
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JSF Action Methods Not Invoking
I decided to upgrade one of the systems I support to JSF 2. As if that wasn’t a large enough task, I decided while I’m at it, I would switch from MyFaces to Mojarra and dump Tomahawk while I’m at it.
After removing a lot of the Tomahawk components and the ExtensionsFilter servlet filter, I started to notice that many of my forms did not work anymore. Clicking on the...
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a little sinatra oauth ditty
I have a toy Ruby webapp I created using Sinatra that I have hosted on Heroku. It’s a small little ditty, nothing fancy. It’s called “Tweet Tools” and I wrote it to make it easier to read tweets from a particular class of Twitter user who don’t seem to understand the point of Twitter: these people insist on making dozens upon dozens of rapid fire and related...
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new play! module -- paginate
One of the things I miss from JSF programming is the ability to use easily pluggable controls. Play! isn’t really a component oriented framework, so it doesn’t provide that ability out of the box. But because it’s so extensible it’s easy enough to fill in this gap.
I just uploaded a new module for the Play! framework to github. It’s called Play—Paginate and...
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multiplex iphone app →
My first iPhone app came out late last week. It was written using Monotouch in a tenth of the time it would have taken to do so in Objective C. Check it out!
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dev derby 2010
This weekend, on September 11, 2010, I took part in the Dev Derby 2010. This was a contest where teams were split up by programming language, and challenged to create as usable and fully functional a program as possible in only six hours. Sadly, some teams, such as Justin Ko’s Team Ruby, were shorthanded. However, the PHP and C# teams put up a good fight.
The challenge was to design a...