Truncate Rails Development/test Logs
In rails applications development.log and test.log like to grow forever, which takes up space and makes them slow to grep. If I just delete them running processes with logs open might get confused. So...
View ArticleDeveloper Info On Every Page
First, make a file in your /app/views/common_partials folder called ‘_developer_info.html.erb’ Into this, throw the following: <code><a id="DevInShow" href="#"...
View ArticleMultilevel Navigation - A Possible Alernative
I do not know about you but I really dislike menu systems that go beyond the second level. Some menus seem to keep expanding and expanding. One of the problems I have with this is that if you go down...
View ArticleRapid Web Application Prototyping with Maven and Groovy
Utilizing both Maven and Groovy you can rapidly prototype web apps, and in this blog I'll walk you through exactly how to do that. First we are going to create a simple Maven web app project using the...
View ArticleAre Enterprise AJAX Applications Doomed…Or Are We?
Sometimes, it seems that the world is all about man vs. technology, and one has to lose. This seems to be the question raised about AJAX; from the general challenges of AJAX, including cost and...
View ArticledynaTrace Premium AJAX Edition 3 Extensions
Next Generation Web Performance Optimization– PART II Location: Boston, MA Company/Organization: dynaTrace Software If you are serious about Web Development then I am sure you are working on Web 2.0...
View ArticleSummer time learning: Getting started with Node.js
It is now a consolidate tradition for me to publish, during summer time, a list of the books I liked reading or that I bought and are sitting on my shelves (or, lately, more and more on my iPad)...
View ArticleReviewing SignalR–Part II
After reading this post from Scott Hanselman, I decided that I really want to take a look at SignalR. This is part two of my review.
View ArticlePull XML From Remote Host - Blackberry Development
Hi, i use this class for pull XML from remote host<code> package com.jacsdev.test import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.DataInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import...
View ArticleThe Story of Google Code Search and How it Worked
Although it went out of commission only a few days ago, Google Code Search was once the pet project of a team of Google interns in the Summer of 2006. In an Official Google Blog entry from October 14,...
View ArticleGizmox Releases Updated Version of Visual WebGui .NET HTML5 and Enterprise...
Solution is first Enterprise Platform for .NET Developers to Build Secure and Efficient HTML5 Applications for Either Desktop Browsers or Mobile Devices, Using the Same Code Base Company/Organization:...
View ArticleThe Pros and Cons of Working at Big Software Companies
For nearly 7 years, I've worked at 3 big software companies - all of them with tens of thousands of employees. I also had 5+ years working in research environment, at startups, as a consultant, or by...
View ArticleA Parse.com JavaScript Application with Offline Support
This morning I got a seemingly innocent question from a reader: Came across your blog post on Parse + PhoneGap and wanted to get your opinion on the following use-case for that combo...I've been...
View ArticleCodeProject Gets a UI Refresh, Goes "Modern UI"--Here's Some of the Story...
"The design of CodeProject has changed over the years, as one would hope and expect. The design, however, was often a result of expedience over planning and as such it often became, well, a little...
View ArticleWindows 8 Development Snack: InvalidOperationException for Share & Settings
With one of my earliest apps I kept having a problem with a COM exception being raised, when trying to setup the Share & Settings event handlers. A key factor is it didn’t happen all the time. I...
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