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Friday, 15. May 2009
Tapestry 5.1.x is faster than Struts!05/15/2009 05:02 PM This is pretty impressive because the Tapestry page life cycle is more complicated than Struts'. Howard has also committed to making updates to Tapestry from 5.0 backwards compatible, so 5.x is a major leap from the rip up and replace redesigns of all the previous major versions of Tapestry 
(0) Saturday, 2. May 2009
Fix for Disappearing Windows XP/Vista Multiple User Logon Screen05/02/2009 09:23 AM I thought my system was just corrupted but it turns out this is a "feature" of installing VMWare Server. It replaces the MS GINA (Graphical Identification and Authentication) DLL with its own so that it can stop/start VMWare machines on startup/shutdown. There's a MS KB article on this if you want to disable VMWare's GINA DLL, but you'll have to start/stop VMWare machines yourself if you do this. (0) Friday, 20. March 2009
Gitzo Systematic Bad Plate Locking Design03/20/2009 10:12 PM Looks like there's been a spate of photographers losing equipment from this Gitzo "feature", so I thought I'd warn about it as well. It mainly affects you if you sling a big lens over your shoulder while the camera is on a Systematic tripod. Threads on this:
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?p=229545
http://www.naturescapes.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=140837
http://www.naturescapes.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=131075&start=60
Naturescapes came up w/ a $70 solution to prevent this from happening:
http://www.naturescapes.net/store/product.php?productid=453
(0) Tuesday, 10. March 2009
AJAX busy/loading Icon Generator03/10/2009 05:46 PM Want your own animated AJAX "busy" icon in a custom color? I found this cool Ajaxload generator page (0) Saturday, 7. March 2009
Great XPages Tutorials03/07/2009 11:13 PM Ed Brill pointed out that Declan Lynch put together a bunch of XPages tutorials and they are indeed a great jumpstart. If you know of any good resources for this great features from Domino 8.5, please let me know. (1) Friday, 23. January 2009
Getting Delimited SQLParams into the SQL IN Clause01/23/2009 08:59 PM One thing you're always supposed to do with SQL is to use parameters so the SQL server can cache your SQL statements as templates, but when you start using IN clauses, you need to send in delimited values. There's no native support for this in MSSQL until MSSQL 2008, so you need to use a function to break the parameter back up into a set of values.
(0) Thursday, 22. January 2009
Great Products for SMB and Large Companies at Lotusphere 200901/22/2009 01:19 PM For the large companies that run SAP, Lotus Notes now provides an easy-to-use UI via Alloy.
For SMB companies, Sametime meetings and Lotus Notes email can now be hosted inexpensively at LotusLive.
And for both, ActiveSync is going to be added to Notes Traveler in 2009 (something I've always thought should have been done long ago along w/ Linux support for Traveler 
Domino 8.5 also has great support for the iPhone. (0) Monday, 8. December 2008
JBoss 5 Finally Released12/08/2008 06:37 PM In case you haven't seen it, it's been
released after a long 2 year beta. It nicely bundles all of JBoss' projects into one app server, though it's odd that it doesn't work that well w/ Java 6 (the recommendation is that you run it with Java 5). It's an easy choice for EJB 3.0 if you use that instead of Hibernate.
I doubt Lotus Domino developers care, given the low interest in Domino-JBoss SSO. Lotus Domino customers will typically integrate with Websphere, which is a much heavier, memory intensive server than JBoss, or they'd use XPages for simpler applications. IBM grabbed Geronimo and effectively killed it (it used a lightweight microkernel architecture like JBoss). Sun has Glassfish but I don't know of anyone using it. What are you using for a J2EE server or have you gone the Hibernate/Spring path for your Java web app persistence layer? I'm a fan of Tapestry 5 since it has been finally released
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