Schön langsam füllt es sich hier. Versammeln sich die Teilnehmer vorerst noch mit Vorliebe um Kaffee und Brötchen, wird sich dies bald ändern. Die Keynote steht bald am Programm. Frank Fischer wird uns durch diese führen und zusammen mit Patrick Baudisch und Steve Teixeira sicherlich viele interessante Dinge zu erzählen haben. So werden unter...
Permalink: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=243148
There were quite a few crazy and ardent Gmail lovers who were trying their hands to change the theme and interface of Gmail by their own. Though I liked it very much, couldn't risk it for the obvious reason. But now there is a reason to celebrate. Gmail is coming out with official set of themes [...]
Permalink: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=243146
eZ publish is a commercially-supported, dual license web content management system by Norway-based eZ systems. eZ publish is one of the most popular enterprise content management system. So, those who are not familiar with Content Management System (or need a brush-up), lemme give you a brief introduction to CMS and ECM. Content Management...
Permalink: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=243142
Exhibt A (the Apache 2.2 mod_proxy documentation): stickysession - Balancer sticky session name. The value is usually set to something like JSESSIONID or PHPSESSIONID, and it depends on the backend application server that support sessions. If the backend application server uses different name for cookies and url encoded id (like servlet...
Permalink: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=243140
script.aculo.us 1.8.2 service release script-y upgrade that you will want. This Week in HTML 5 - Episode 13 "The big news this week is a major revamping of how browsers should process multimedia in the <audio> and <video> elements." Using JSON in Firefox - MDC Eric Shepherd writes up the native JSON support in FF 3.1 about:mozilla:...
Permalink: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=243138
Those of you using Chris Wanstrath?s slick little try trick will now have access to that functionality in Rails with this ActiveSupport update. Basically, try lets you attempt to invoke a method on an object without worrying about a NoMethodError being raised. If the method doesn?t exist, or if the target object nil, then nil will be returned...
Permalink: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=243135
Linking to native code in Java is always a hassle. JNI isn’t exactly nice, and there are some oddities around classloaders and native libraries which are annoying if you run into them. One thing I wasn’t aware of was exactly how hard it is to load a library it isn’t already in the directories specified by [...]
Permalink: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=243133
render is one of those oft-used view-helper methods that always seems to be a little cumbersome. The most common use is to render a partial within another view: render :partial => 'articles/article', :locals => { :article => @article } But this is a lot of work for a simple operation, and now it becomes much simpler. Now the default is...
Permalink: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=243131
Another publication goes online only: PC Magazine: PC Magazine, which has documented the explosive growth of the personal computer since 1982, announced on Wednesday that it was dropping its print edition next year and going online only. News just moves too quickly to be rolled out on a weekly basis - by the time it hits print, it's been...
Permalink: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=243129
This is an amazing story: a South Carolina teen lived for 118 days without a heart, after an initial heart transplant failed: She had a heart transplant on July 2 at Miami's Holtz Children's Hospital but the new heart failed to function properly and was quickly removed. Two heart pumps made by Thoratec Corp of Pleasanton, California, were...
Permalink: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=196&thread=243127