As mentioned in day 2 of our series, we have a main service interface that came from an initial discussion of what we think a pastebin should do. What can be easier than creating an entity model for a pastebin application, right? It’s just a big text area that holds a piece of text (content) that [...]

In the course of building an application, whether it due to shortened timelines, lack of process, or laziness, tests become an afterthought. Tests often are added when problems are found, or to root out bugs that were not found during early phases.

This article, day 2 of our project, will show how to write a solid baseline for your application with tests as the strong foundation. Our first meetings laid down the scope and direction we wanted achieved for this short project. We had a clear sense of the problem we wanted to solve, as well as the basic components we were going to implement.

Introduction

Wicket is a Java web application framework which allows “Designers” (people good with Dreamweaver) and “Developers” (people good with Java and Databases) to collaborate on a project with minimal chances of stepping on each other’s toes or wearing each other’s hats.

The beauty of Wicket is that it uses plain xhtml pages as it’s templating markup. This means that html pages can be loaded into Dreamweaver (or whatever tool the Designer is comfortable with) and they will look very close to the same as they would when rendered on the deployment web server.

At Mystic, we love our technology, and we love to evangelize the best of the best. We’ve been brewing a cauldron of new ideas, and the latest, is a series of articles surrounding building actual applications with the technology we love, and sharing how it was all done with you. Our first feature: 5 days [...]

I spent some time yesterday working with the new CalDAV support in Google Calendar. If you’ve been under a rock, they announced support for it very recently, and for users of the iPhone, and users of iCal, it means seamless syncing of their Google Calendar’s with all 3 systems. What I found lacking, was a [...]

If you’ve ever wondered what the architects who designed the system powering that big farm of servers, Eugene Ciurana has written the guide for you. At just shy of 6 pages, with a wealth of great, easy to understand diagrams, it is a quick but informative read. I must admit however, that I’m a bit [...]

I realize this post is over 2 1/2 months past the actual event, but it was such an awesome time with the Mystic crew, I thought I’d share a bit of the day.

First off, several flew in the night before, and enjoyed a bit of Vegas before the official festivities. Two of the folks in our team had never been to Vegas before, so it was an especially interesting experience. Mystic put everyone up for the night at the Mandalay Bay, a fantastic hotel and one of the few I’d recommend staying in Vegas.

Here at Mystic, we do a lot of different types of development. It’s not all web development. I found myself writing a simple document parser that takes files uploaded by automated process, processes them by adding to a database, and finishes. One of the components we used to tie everything together, the Spring Framework, it’s great for that.