Recently, Keith Peters has been putting overtime into his Minimal Comps library. It’s an ActionScript 3 library that offers a large number of typical user interface components. Easily and quickly you can construct basic user interfaces in ActionScript. When Flex is a little too heavy, this is a really neat solution.
In the spirit of cleaning up some of my older projects, I’ve completely overhauled my little Amazon store and added an entirely new category. I know this sounds like a commercial message and yes, I will earn a small commission if you order anything, but the store is something I take seriously. I only offer things I’m absolutely sure you will like if you like this blog.
One problem that you’ll face in practically any application, including a Vaadin-powered one, is getting hold of data or external services. Usually this functionality is put in some kind of service facade, or for instance a repository. Vaadin presents a problem in this regard, because it uses classes on both client (compiled to JavaScript) and server. You can’t (and don’t want to) execute service methods on the browser. Luckily, thanks to modern frameworks and good old Java, this turns out to be incredibly easy.
For a long time, I’ve maintained a guide featuring some of my favorite online radio stations. Over the last 2 year, however, it had become a bit neglected. So today, I’m proud to present the updated 2010 version of the guide. I’ve purged the defunct stations, added a few new ones. I’ve also cleaned up the layout and added a little bling. So if you haven’t checked out the guide, or even if you have, now is the time to click through.
Reader Nacho Coloma got me thinking. A few weeks ago he mentioned Gradle as an alternative for Maven. Now I’m not ready to throw out Maven, but the alternatives are at least interesting. Most popular alternatives have one thing in common: they shy away from XML in favor of domain specific languages (DSLs). Those DSLs are in many cases a subset of some of the more popular scripting languages.
Read on for more about Gradle, Gant, Rake, Raven and Buildr.
In this post, a summary of some of the most interesting posts that have appeared on this blog related to Java. There’s a bit for everyone, there’s some Maven and Android, as some good documentation resources. And something about Java applets, because, for some odd reason, I still like them.
About 10 days ago, De Morgen, a Belgian (Dutch) newspaper, published the 60 best dance tracks of the last 10 years. 6 DJs and radio celebrities take their pick of what was good in the last 10 years. Unlike what you might expect, the lists where not littered with fluffy pop stuff. Most of it is quality material. Pleasantly surprised, I think this was a great idea. The only problem is that it’s quite difficult to listen to the lists as they are all embedded as separate tracks. So I’ve put them in a few YouTube playlists, which make them a lot more manageable .
If you’re visiting the site, you will undoubtedly have noticed the new design. If you’re following the site via the feed or e-mail, now is a very good time to click through and check out the new incarnation of Streamhead. In this post, I go over what went in to creating the new design and what is still to come.
In true open source spirit, I scratched my itch. No, not that itch. If you complain about open source projects, you have all the tools at your disposal to fix the problem yourself. Last week, I posted that it’s not straightforward at all to make Spring, Google AppEngine (GAE) and Vaadin work together in Eclipse. This week, I present the solution.
Update: I’ve added a necessary repository to the pom file. So if you had problems previously, please download the file again. Your issues should be solved.
3 Blogging Clients Tested
I’m currently testing a number of blogging clients. Clients that free you from the web browser for post writing and editing. This is a post written in and posted via Zoundry Raven. Among the many blogging clients available, I’ve selected three for closer inspection: the aforementioned Raven, BlogDesk and Scribefire. The last one is an add-on for Firefox, the first two are standalone Windows applications. All support pretty much every blogging platform available. This post goes into some of the differences.
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