Archive for January 2010

iThink iPad iGood and iBad

January 29, 2010 4:35 PM

With Apple’s big announcement of the iPad, Steve Jobs said that in order for it to be successful it had to be “far better” at browsing, Email, photos, videos, music, games and eBooks than both the iPhone and a laptop.

posted by Jeff Schwartz

Oracle-Sun deal gets approved by EU

January 21, 2010 2:51 PM

Finally. via CNET

posted by Matt Campbell

Batch Services in CQ5 using Apache Sling

January 18, 2010 8:36 AM

I have recently had the need to create various tasks that run on a periodic basis within Day Communique 5 (eg: periodically activating specific content, backing up content, custom report generation and notification, etc.). I was able to achieve these through one of the less publicized features of CQ5: the Apache Sling Scheduling Service using OpenSymphony’s Quartz Scheduler.

posted by Mark Cochran

Groovy 1.7 / Grails 1.2 New Features

January 15, 2010 3:44 PM

The topic of this month’s Chicago Groovy User Group (CGUG) meeting was a discussion of the new features and enhancements in Groovy 1.7 and Grails 1.2. Both Groovy 1.7 and Grails 1.2 are hot off the press, with their releases happening on December 22 and December 23 respectively. The founders of CGUG, Bill Gloff, Bryan Williams, and myself led the meeting by cherry-picking a few topics that we thought were particularly interesting. We discussed each topic in greater detail and demonstrated each by running live examples.

posted by Jeff Palmer

Why You Should Consider JBoss Seam for Your Next Project

January 5, 2010 10:28 AM

Introduction I recently had the opportunity to convert a Microsoft Access-based application to a web-based application using JBoss Seam. Having used many Java web frameworks the past few years, including Grails, Wicket, and Struts 2, I wanted to highlight some of the key features in Seam that help differentiate it from some of the other framework contenders. The intention of this blog isn’t to start any flamewars by comparing Seam on a feature by feature basis with other Java frameworks, but simply to focus on the areas of Seam that I feel help make it a solid choice when starting out on a new project.

posted by Jeff Palmer

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