More than ten years ago, Joel Spolsky of “Joel on Software” fame wrote The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code. It was a great set of 12 yes/no questions, all of which you should be able to honestly answer “yes” if your team is to have any hope of producing good software in a timely and efficient manner. The Joel Test stands up pretty well even today. Joel’s first two questions, “Do you use source control?” and “Can you…
As Java consultants and developers, a very large percentage our projects are web applications. We have become accustomed to depending on MVC web frameworks, and almost take for granted that at some level, we will be handling HTTPServletRequests, providing HTTPServletResponses, and deploying our applications to either a servlet container or a full J2EE server. Every once in a while, however, the need arises to write an old-fashioned, desktop, thick-ui, non-web-centric application. If you have ever written a Java Swing application,…
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Spring into Mobile Application Development Posted on November 19th, 2010 by Keith Donald in Spring. At SpringOne2gx we announced exciting new initiatives in the areas of social media and mobile application development. A few weeks ago, Craig Walls released Spring Social. Today, Roy Clarkson released Spring Mobile and Spring Android. In this post, I’d like to highlight these projects and share how Spring aims to simplify mobile application development. Choices in Mobile Application Development If you attended SpringOne2gx this year,…
NFC: Near Field Communications: a short-range high frequency wireless communication technology which enables the exchange of data between devices over about a 10 centimeter (around 4 inches) distance (via Wikipedia). Well that’s great, but what does it mean, especially when mentioned in conjunction with Gingerbread? As you may (or may not) have heard this week at the Web2.0 Summit Eric Schmidt talk about Android 2.3 and its support for NFC. This could indeed lead the way for mobile payments on…
Gordon Dickens, one of our trainers and architects, recently posted this on his Technophile Blog, on Roo. LogBack is the more versatile logging strategy created by the same person that created log4j. Use the following steps to configure your Roo 1.1 project to use LogBack. 1. Create a logback.xml file in src/main/resources Continue here for the remainder of the post. See Also: Reasons to Switch to LogBack.
Kevin Griffin was one of the presenters at our first Mobile Seminar Breakfast. Below is a recap of his thoughts after he finished his presentation. “Yesterday I presented at the first in a series of events for Chariot Solutions, the topic was ‘Mobile Design Concepts’. My goal was to try present things that I had learned/seen/been shown/done over the last couple of years, and try to get the audience out of the ‘desktop browser’ mind set when developing for mobile….
This is an excerpt from a blog post by Gordon Dickens, Chariot Architect and Trainer (via Technophile Blog) After several iterations of Grails, we have to go to 17 (seventeen) pages to see all the validation constraints? I wanted to see them on one page. Grails 1.3.5 – Validation Constraints blank – To validate that a String value is not blank. login(blank:false) creditCard – To validate that a String value is a valid credit card number. cardNumber(creditCard:true) email – To…
Firstly I should apologize for being a few days late, September was a busy month! I had the privilege and pleasure of joining a top notch panel discussion at ‘Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic’ talking about mobile strategy. For anyone in the Philadelphia area interested/participating in mobile development, Mobile Monday is a must attend event, they have some great topics coming soon and we had a great attendance for the panel discussion again. My thanks again to MOMO-MA for the opportunity to…
Recently I had the “opportunity” (read: challenge) to setup a continuous integration build for a project with a Flex frontend and a Ruby/Rails backend. The project had been converted from Java-Hibernate-Tomcat to Ruby on Rails. Cucumber was introduced for GUI testing using the FunFX adapter. It was my first experience with Cucumber, so the combination of Cucumber, FunFX, Flex, and Firefox was a little daunting at first. But we got through it and actually, it turned out to be quite…
