Archive for 2007

Cache settings in IE

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

This article explains why the Every visit to the page and Automatically don’t have dramatic differences.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb250442.aspx#ie_introfiddler2_topic4

Essentially, if the cache copy is fresh (based on the “Expires” set in the header) no request is issued by the browser. Only when the cache is stale or no cache-directives are present do you [...]

WebWork/Struts 2 merger

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Interesting presentation on Struts Action 2.0 and Webwork merger.
Short comparison with other frameworks
Conversation on Continuations
Rapid Development (Why is RoR so popular?)

It’s a long-ish presentation (~50 minutes), but gives a good summary of some of what I’ve been reading about the direction of java web development thinking

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/struts-2-webwork-pat-lightbody

Announce: Commons Fileupload 1.2

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Did you see this recent announcement? Since we use file upload in a number of projects, this update looks interesting — particularly the “support for progress listeners”.

—–Original Message—–
From: Jochen Wiedmann [mailto:jochen.wiedmann@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:40 AM
To: announcements@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Announce: Commons Fileupload 1.2

Hi,

the Jakarta Commons team is glad to announce the availability [...]

a popular library for date/time in java

Friday, February 16th, 2007

It’s always shocking that native Java is so clunky in dealing with dates. One of the popular libraries that makes life more enjoyable is Joda, so if you’re dealing with a ton of dates and finally get fed up, try it out.

http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/

Keep session alive javascript code

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

In really large, complex data entry apps, it can sometimes be the case that the user session times out before the complete data is entered (due to security requirements). To avoid this, we can add some code to keep the session alive.

In this case the keep-alive is called as user tabs around the form. You [...]