Tag " Web"

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 [...]

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.

It is probably already well known, if you’re doing Ajax, I might not be popping any big secrets here. But I was reading Wicket in Action tonight, and ran across a very helpful tidbit on how to properly hide a component. If you’ve constructed a component that you’d like to show, upon an action, you [...]

I was playing with object redrawing in Laszlo (4.0.6). This is what I came up with,  it seems I hit flash engine issues above a certain level of attached nodes but it does handle re-draws quite well once rendered. Here is the code I was playing with and a screenshot….  

Just got hit with this error: And regrettably I spent a lot of time searching through Javascript in mootools javascript, and the small 2 lines of javascript Wicket adds to the page. Finally, I decided to actually google the error (which I should have done immediately). Low and behold, because I was inlining some Javascript [...]

The writing has definitely been on the wall for some time now. All the “agile” frameworks out there picking on Java and its love affair with XML had an effect. More and more projects have sprung up that tout one of their prized features, no XML required. Wicket (currently undergoing incubation with Apache) is a [...]