no buzzwords allowed
Posting this from ScribeFire, can’t believe I didn’t know about it before. Looks like a very cool way to post right from Firefox, with a decent editor to boot. Unfortunately doesn’t support MiniPost, which we use for the “Side notes”.
The event is over and I’m heading back home for another five days. This was my second time on TSSJS and it definitely felt different. Last time it was in Barcelona and we weren’t exhibiting (in fact ZeroTurnaround didn’t even exist yet). Also this year had a lot of changes for TheServerSide, with a bunch [...]
Just some interesting tidbits that Mike Aizatsky mentioned about Google build process — the executables can be 300 MB big (’cause everything is linked statically) and they have a home-grown build system for making them. Cool stuff!
What is RIA? “Old body with a new face” — just a new client slammed on top of the same old applications server. The obligatory Wikipedia quote is “too vague” :) The spectrum of RIA apparently includes “Internet-enabled client”, “Smart client” and “Web 2.0″.
Turns out the “Smart client” refers to the JavaFX ability to be [...]
EJB 3.x are ultralightweight — OMG! What’s next? Weightless? Antigravity frameworks? And I thought “Plain Old Java Object” was funny :)