Archive for April 2010

Cross Platform Mobile Applications with Phone Gap

April 23, 2010 8:59 PM

This week I spent most of my time writing a mobile application. The app, which I will write about in a later post, has about ten screens and makes heavy use of RESTful web services. The goal is to have native versions for both the iPhone and Android. Other platforms will be considered if time is available.

posted by Jeff Schwartz

GR8 US Postmortem: Be the Outlier

April 19, 2010 12:21 AM

The Groovy GR8 conference is a small intimate gathering that is part educational, part commiseration over not being able to fully use Groovy in the day job, and part therapeutic for having to deal with the incessant ribbing from your pretentious Rails coworkers.

posted by Sten Anderson

LOTD: Josh Bloch talks about the state of the Java Platform

April 14, 2010 7:17 PM

link: PCWorld Article

posted by Matt Campbell

Flipping Nodes with the JavaFX PerspectiveTransform

April 13, 2010 6:05 PM

In working on some new features for Music Explorer FX 2.0, one of the issues I’ve had to think about is where to put track information for an artist. The current UI is mostly visual and doesn’t afford a lot of space per artist. For reference, here is how a typical artist is currently represented:

posted by Sten Anderson

Lists of Four in Honor of the .NET 4 Release

April 8, 2010 2:26 PM

As a count down to the release of the .NET 4 Framework on April 12, 2010, I am going to list out the top Four features from the top Four products for the next Four days leading up to the official release!

posted by Pat McLoughlin

An Honest Look at Seam – Part 4: JSF, Faceletts and the State of the View Technologies

April 5, 2010 6:44 PM

This is the fourth part in a series of posts about the Seam Framework If you look at my previous blog posts, you know that I despise view technologies that force you to write tag soup. In the aforementioned post, I describe how much I like Apache Wicket because you write your html view in html, not xml, not jsp tags, not some other xml-like templating language or anything like that. Just html (and the associated css and javascript). Then you get to write you controller code in Java, only Java and nothing but Java, using a style very similar to how you would be a desktop app using Swing. But again, this is a post about Seam, so we are going to start by looking at what Seam uses by default.

posted by Matt Campbell

Windows Azure Start Up Error

April 5, 2010 4:15 PM

When starting up my first Windows Azure project, i kept receiving a System.IO.FileLoadException. The message was saying that the path of the temp directory that the assemblies are being built in was too long. The error message looked like this.

posted by Pat McLoughlin

Fourteen Minor Updates iPhone 4 OS Needs

April 2, 2010 4:42 PM

There has been a lot of hoopla going around about multi-tasking in iPhone OS 4.0. While that is certainly the must have feature, the following list are not as prevalent, but equally important. Orientation Lock. Currently there is not a way to read email or browse the web while laying down. MobileRSS has an excellent implementation of Orientation Lock.

posted by Jeff Schwartz

The future in three words – “Universal Data Plan”

April 1, 2010 8:44 PM

Like most people, I’ve got a bunch of mobile electronic "stuff" in my life. Stuff such as: iPhones Laptops / iPads Portable GPS Units Watches Automobiles All of these items are mobile – meaning they are not stationary objects like a printer or desktop computer are.

posted by Jeff Schwartz

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