Over the last two weeks there seems to be have been a sea change in the view of configuring applications using XML. The phrase ‘XML Hell’ has been around for a while, but criticism of this style of configuration seems to have peaked and reached critical mass. You just have to look at the list… Read more Supposed XML Hell
Shwup, the Java multimedia project I am currently working on is starting to pick momentum not only in the Java community but also on art centric sites such as vvvv.org. Today we are featured on the front page of the JavaDesktop Community. If you haven’t tried Shwup, why not give it a try? It is… Read more Getting our clicks
It is Valentine’s Day, but not exactly lurve, more Java speakers. Yes, I’m looking for Java presenters for the next Singapore Java Meetup. Provisionally, I need a presenter for April and we are willing to fit around your schedule. We average about 40-50 attendees, which is no wonder when our last two presenters were Gavin… Read more Looking for Lurve…
On Monday 5th February, the Singapore Java Meetup will be holding their next Meetup at Brewerkz, Clarke Quay. Our guest presentor for the night is Interface21’s Ben Alex. Ben is the creator of the Acegi Security API, now part of Spring 2.0, and he is Interface21’s Regional Director, Australasia. You can find out more about… Read more Ben Alex Presentation, Singapore Java Meetup
Following on from Vanessa Williams blog on configuring JXTA using Spring, I noticed that with the latest release of Spring (2.0.1) a problem occurred with the configuration Vanessa provided. This was not Vanessa’s fault, Spring have changed the way File properties are loaded when specified in a Spring context. This blog details the problem and… Read more Spring’s FileEditor Anomaly
Obviously a little publicity goes a long way as on Monday 11th December the Singapore JUG will be hosting a Meetup with Gavin King who will be giving a presentation on Seam. Unfortunately, there are no longer any places free for the night; all 80 went within 24 hours of a small email that went… Read more Gavin King Presentation, Singapore JUG Meetup
I am looking for speakers to present on Java related topics in Singapore to a Java Meetup. I know it is a bit out of the way, but if anyone is travelling through and have a presentation and an evening free, please could you let me know? Our proposed next event (after the November event)… Read more Desperately seeking speakers for Java Meetup
I feel foolish, but the solution to this was very simple (isn’t it always). I omitted to say that ‘formTwo’ had a hidden input tag called ‘action’. Thus my JavaScript was referencing that in the DOM rather than the ‘action’ property of the Form itself. All rather silly! This has utterly stumped me and a… Read more A conundrum wrapped in an enigma wrapped in IE
Reading through a blog I found on TSS yesterday Stiff asks, great programmers answer came up with a great and in my opinion utterly true paragraph from Linus Torvalds: For example, I personally believe that “Visual Basic” did more for programming than “Object-Oriented Languages” did. Yet people laugh at VB and say it’s a bad… Read more La Belle et la Bête
One of the nicest parts of developing JSP based web applications is the simplicity in making the front-end locale specific. Most of the MVC frameworks I have used (proprietary, Struts and Spring) have a set of tags that allow the developer to embed a key into the JSP and then at runtime that key will… Read more Pronto Property Messages