I’ve just started playing around with Spring Roo it seems like a really good ’scaffold’ approach to starting Java development, much like the productivity boost you get from Ruby on Rails or Grails. There is a good tutorial here. I did hit one issue while following it – on Windows.
If you have installed Roo on [...]
Just a quick post – I got greasemonkey working no problem…
Download the xpi file, this is easiest in a browser other than Firefox (yes sorry to say that!)
open xpi with tar or winzip
Edit install.rdf
Change version number line e.g. 3.0.0.* to 3.1.*
zip it back up
Open file in Firefox to reinstall
restart Firefox
WARNING/Disclaimer: This is an approach for the brave or those who are desperate to get their Greasemonkey extensions working again.
It’s by no means scientific, but I use Greasemonkey a lot (and a couple of other extensions too), and really wanted it back!
What I have: Firefox 3.0 RC1, Greasemonkey 0.7.20080121.0
Go get yourself the Nightly Tester tools [...]
The first release candidate for Firefox has just surfaced. You can get it over at Mozilla.
It has a nice new look, a really useful address bar, and it is so much faster than 2.
This was session TS-6574 at JavaOne.
A talk around implementing the OpenSocial APIs for your site. OpencSocial defines a dingle API for social applications that covers the majority of interactions with social web tools.
There are two basic parts. The Server side contains a Gadget Server (think Google gadgets), and an OpenSocial JavaScript library. The client side [...]
Well, I made it to JavaOne this year, and here is the first session from the Community Day, delivered by John Smart.
This session was really about how you can be more focussed in software development by utilising tools and process to take out some of the pain.
Main focus of which was:
Reducing bugs
Using build scripts
Managing dependencies
Automating [...]
One of the things the often irritates me the most is how long it takes to actually get an environment up and running before you can actually start to collaborate and build a system. Well, those smart people at ThoughtWorks have taken two ideas and put them together! VMWare images for a wiki, continuous integration and [...]
This week leading academics slammed Java as a first programming language in computer science courses, saying it undermines good software engineering practices and teaches poor programming.
I agree on one specific front, in that there is a lot of complexity for the novice – but then it’s a general purpose language that does a lot [...]