For a recent project I was using Yahoo’s YUI datatable component. With YUI often you can copy code from their site and tweak it to your needs. That to me is a sign of great developer documentation. This is especially needed in case of lots of JavaScript code. I have spent hours trying to figure out why code works in Firefox and not in IE. Only to find an extra comma inside my JSON code. IE is not forgiving regarding the extra comma. Continue reading
Author Archives: Mathew
Choice of Java frameworks (jdk 1.4)
Its amazing how much work there is when wiring up a new J2EE application from ground up. Deciding on the frameworks to use is one challenge and then wiring them up so they all work seamlessly together is another. JBoss Seam has indeed tried to address this very issue and I wish them all the luck. Continue reading
Scrum vs. Traditional Project Management
Recently I signed up for a SCRUM certification class and that got me thinking about my other effort which is to get PMP certified. PMP”ians” can boast that their certification is industry recognized and achieved only after giving a certification exam. SCRUM certified professionals are “certified” after they attend an approved certification class conducted by a Scrum certified trainer. No test required. Continue reading
CruiseControl + ClearCase + Maven
Recently I set up CruiseControl with ClearCase. While there are a few postings around the blogosphere that cover some of this, I thought I’d blog it here also. More information, the better is for others to find it. Continue reading
Can JSON be friends with XSD?
JSON backed by an XSD schema for correctness. Continue reading
XFire WebService With Spring
Tried setting up XFire with Spring and thought I’d share that experience. One more place to come for this information will not hurt ah! Continue reading
Spring-WS
Took a look at Spring-WS and came up with a quick example service to describe its use. I decided to build the not-so-exciting but yet functional ‘echo’ service. Send in a text and it will echo that back with a date and time appended to the text. Continue reading
Being Agile with FDD Process
Feature Driven Development or FDD is an Agile development method that I had the pleasure of using on a project. Continue reading
AJAX Roundup
Recently I have been playing with various AJAX frameworks, both open source and commercial. For simple ‘update a certain portion of the page only’ type of applications you can roll up your sleeve and deal with the XMLHttpRequest (XHR) directly or use open source API’s like Prototype/DOJO to simply make the call. Continue reading
Maven
Can build management be made easier? Chances are whatever approach you take will have its own pitfalls and challenges. Many of the Java projects nowadays use Ant as the defacto build scripting tool. Its not too hard really. Can take a couple of days for a the Ant build file to be created (based on project needs). And subsequently it has to managed like any other source code. This approach works well. Most folks now know Ant well enough to get most tasks completed. Why then would anyone want to move to Maven! Continue reading