Category: technology
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Announcing the Irish Java Technologies Conference
In early November, the Dublin Java Users Group along with IrishDev will be hosting the first of what I hope will be many major Java events here in Dublin. The one day Irish Java Technologies Conference aims to deliver the same caliber of content as the larger Java conferences, with an Irish slant, right to…
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How to test the middle tier of a Spring application
Since the advent of dependency injection (DI) as a staple of enterprise development using tools such as Spring or Guice, your code has become a lot easier to test. You no longer need to code up voodoo such as plugging in dummy resource locators or the like based on some random environment variable to tell…
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Blog now syntax highlighting code snippets!
I tracked down a Javascript component today that allows you to format code snippets in your blog. Syntaxhighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev. Most popular languages supported. Had to do a minor patch to run it off blogger, but it now works like a treat. Check out my last post on EJB.
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Prototype documentation
Anybody working with the prototype Javascript library should check out Sergio Pereira’s Developer Notes for prototype.js. This is the documentation the library should have had.
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Client-side web development evolved
It’s finally time to say goodbye to my trusty Venkman debugger for Firefox. My old friend has served me well for Javascript development, but I have found a new, better tool: Firebug. Javascript, DOM, XHR debugging, profiling, viewing, command line interface, profiling. Mmm…
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Getting up to speed on EJB3 and Spring
Another contract, another technology set. Having successfully avoided working in EJB2 after getting certified in it by Sun (only to work out just how badly it smelt 😉 ), my initial foray into its successor has been much nicer. The job in question specified Spring and EJB3 as technology requirements, so having Sprung in anger,…
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Killing the 419 through a high signal-noise ratio
Most of the spam that hits my mailbox these days is the “Contact us urgently for your $1.5 million” type rubbish. Everything else seems to get caught by my email provider. I guess that the 419 looks like something that may be legitimate, so they let it through. Sending the mails on to email providers…
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Upcoming Events at the Dublin JUG
At Tuesday’s regular monthly JUG meetup, I put forward some ideas of the sort of stuff that I’m going to be pushing in order to make the JUG more valuable to our members. Master classes – a 2-3 hour session for 20 people max that explains how to use one technology properly. Eg. how to…
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7 year old girl implements Pet Store in Java
Seems today is my day for posting links up. I blame the guys at the JUG. http://craigbbaker.com/2007/07/08/7-year-old-girl-implements-pet-store-in-java/
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22 Confessions of a Former Dell Sales Manager
Great tips on how to get the best deal on a new system from Dell: http://consumerist.com/consumer/insiders/22-confessions-of-a-former-dell-sales-manager-268831.php