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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Flock Browser
I just got hold of the new Flock browser (1.0). Looks pretty comprehensive, if not a little cluttered. I'll need to use it for a while to see if it is any good. This post was written in Flock anyhow so if it works it will be a good start
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Google Web Toolkit : First Impressions
GWT is a framework for developing Ajax-like web applications. The major differentiator is that the code is developed primarily in java, and compiled into JavaScript for deployment on a standard web server.
The benefits up-front are those that favour java development in the first place: strong typing, debugging, unit testing, OO design, refactoring etc; all things that imrove the experience over pure-javascript development. The major drawback seems to be the fact that the java needs to be compiled to javascript at some stage and so is limited in the constructs and libraries that it can use.
From the getting-started examples, the code is developed like a Swing or Eclipse plugin; you create your UI controls, give them attributes and behaviour, and attach event handlers to react to user events and position all of this on a layout grid (if you like).
The model-view-controller paradigm is up to you to implement if that is the application structure you want to create. More natural is the AJAX structure where the application is hosted on a single html page, and all events trigger RPC calls to the server, and the response data displayed using scripting in the same page.
GWT is a framework for developing Ajax-like web applications. The major differentiator is that the code is developed primarily in java, and compiled into JavaScript for deployment on a standard web server.
The benefits up-front are those that favour java development in the first place: strong typing, debugging, unit testing, OO design, refactoring etc; all things that imrove the experience over pure-javascript development. The major drawback seems to be the fact that the java needs to be compiled to javascript at some stage and so is limited in the constructs and libraries that it can use.
From the getting-started examples, the code is developed like a Swing or Eclipse plugin; you create your UI controls, give them attributes and behaviour, and attach event handlers to react to user events and position all of this on a layout grid (if you like).
The model-view-controller paradigm is up to you to implement if that is the application structure you want to create. More natural is the AJAX structure where the application is hosted on a single html page, and all events trigger RPC calls to the server, and the response data displayed using scripting in the same page.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Friday, August 3, 2007
La Rosarie
Montignac
Heres a pic of the pool at La Roserie in Montignac where we stayed in June.
Lovely gastronomic hotel, old style with traditional French food and great wines.
Right on the shore of the Vesere river, perfect for a peaceful break.
Heres a pic of the pool at La Roserie in Montignac where we stayed in June.
Lovely gastronomic hotel, old style with traditional French food and great wines.
Right on the shore of the Vesere river, perfect for a peaceful break.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
George Michael
Went to George Michael in the Point last night. Not my type of music, but at least I knew most of the songs. The stage was just right for this type of gig, focussing on the main man rather than the band, who were in the shadows on three-tiered scaffolding. I prefer when the band are more involved. No improvising here, there may have been just a backing track.
The audience was close to 70:30 women:men, and I dont think that ratio would have changed much since his 'outing' as the loudest screams were for 'This song is dedicated to the man I love'.
We were standing for the first half of the gig, 30feet back stage left. We went to get new shoes from the car as Gens feet were killing her. When I was gone, she managed to get two prime seating tickets from a couple who were leaving!, so the second half was a lot more comfortable.
We got parking right behind the point car park (3 euro to the parking tout).
Went to George Michael in the Point last night. Not my type of music, but at least I knew most of the songs. The stage was just right for this type of gig, focussing on the main man rather than the band, who were in the shadows on three-tiered scaffolding. I prefer when the band are more involved. No improvising here, there may have been just a backing track.
The audience was close to 70:30 women:men, and I dont think that ratio would have changed much since his 'outing' as the loudest screams were for 'This song is dedicated to the man I love'.
We were standing for the first half of the gig, 30feet back stage left. We went to get new shoes from the car as Gens feet were killing her. When I was gone, she managed to get two prime seating tickets from a couple who were leaving!, so the second half was a lot more comfortable.
We got parking right behind the point car park (3 euro to the parking tout).
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Websphere Installation
A few of the issues that I got when setting up Websphere Application Server on XP:
A few of the issues that I got when setting up Websphere Application Server on XP:
- Out of Memory errors : This can be fixed by adding the min and max heap size attributes of the JVM
using the genericJvmArguments setting; either through the admin console or by editing serverroot/config/cells/cellname/nodes/nodename/servers/server1/server.xml
Thursday, March 29, 2007
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