Published on April 14th, 2008 in Ruby On Rails
Many shared hosts have been waiting for this: A mod_rails for Apache, making Rails applications deployment as easy as deploying PHP based ones. Check out the demo screencast on how to install and use it.
It’ll be interesting to see, how well it performs compared to Mongrel and how much memory it consumes. According to the [...]
Published on November 13th, 2006 in JavaThere have been a lot of rumours spreading around the web about the possible “open-sourcing” of Sun Microsystems’ Java. Until today, it was known that J2ME (Micro Edition) for PDAs and other portable devices was going to be opened up, but it was unknown if more important parts like the JDK, J2SE and J2EE (Standard [...]
Published on September 6th, 2006 in Best of, ProgrammingInspired by my last post about the O’Reilly Labs website that let’s you search for source code, I did some more thorough research. Now guess what? I’ve made a table comparing them all, since some have less content, like O’Reilly for example, but offer better quality and some detailed explanation, while others provide plenty of [...]
Published on September 3rd, 2006 in ProgrammingO’Reilly is putting a vast amount of source code examples from over 700 books online. They’re using a powerful search engine to search the current amount of over 123′000 examples, containing over 2.6 million lines of code. I’m pretty sure you’ll find exactly what you need in one of those examples. Give it a try, [...]
Published on September 3rd, 2006 in PHP, Programming, WebEveryone using AJAX knows what it can do to improve your Web App. Well, AJAX when used with a database, can also expose your critical data. To avoid this, the nice people at informit.com have put a pretty good article together which will basically allow you to password protect your AJAX requests on the client-side [...]
Published on July 28th, 2006 in Programming, WindowsMicrosoft finally decided to offer its excellent MSDN Library for download. These are not outdated versions! The current version they offer is May 2006, which seems to be the most current one. Go get your MSDN Library here!
For those who don’t know what the MSDN Library is: It’s a great collection of documentation and sample [...]
Published on July 17th, 2006 in JavaFinally I came across a project that made heavy use of multithreading. As I wanted to pause and resume one particular thread, I had to use synchronized variables instead of the deprecated suspend and resume methods. I implemented them into my own, clean MyThread class. But since those two, deprecated methods were defined as final [...]
Published on July 6th, 2006 in Programming, WebSo, you’re developing the next killer app (or website). But it still doesn’t quite look like one. What can you do? Well, an important part of the visual presentation are definitely icons. Beautiful, understandable icons also improve the usability of your product, because people can more easily associate a button or a menu item with [...]
Published on June 17th, 2006 in Best of, Java, OtherYou gotta be kidding right? Well, I’m not. And this could become something big and meaningful. It could win over a few million people over to the Java platform. But first things first:
As Visual Basic 6 gets older and older, more and more problems start to appear. Microsoft stopped supporting it, hoping most developers would [...]
Published on June 14th, 2006 in JavaEvery client-side Java programmer knows this problem: How do I most effectively create a GUI for my application? Most IDEs do provide some kind of support for this task, either built-in or through plug-ins, but most of the time the support is at best awful (either lacking important features or just being way too slow). [...]
