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Evite.com
Read more: Evite.comEvite.com ended up on Time’s 5 Worst Web Sites. I worked for Evite.com as a Java Engineer in San Francisco right after college in 2000. It was a great place to work, great people. It had a feeling of a real San Francisco “startup” back then. Anything I built back then has long been retired…
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Can Java be used to build Rich Internet Applications?
Read more: Can Java be used to build Rich Internet Applications?I read an article that I found on James Weaver’s JavaFX Blog, it’s an interview with James Gosling. If you scroll towards the middle of the article, you will see this question: “As organizations think about building rich Internet applications or rich client applications, when should developers look at JavaFX over competing technologies?” I think…
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Real JavaFX application (example)
Read more: Real JavaFX application (example)Check out this cool JavaFX example application. This goes far beyond the standard Hello World applications and shows what you can do with JavaFX. This could easily be mistaken for a Flash application – don’t you think?
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Just one prediction for next year: JavaFX
Read more: Just one prediction for next year: JavaFXAs we are closing this year, people tend to write predications for the next year. Usually you see something like “Top 10 predications for next year”. I will offer you just one prediction. My predication is that JavaFX will start to emerge as a technology for building Rich Internet Applications. JavaFX Script is a declarative…
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AT&T Wireless
Read more: AT&T WirelessI recently got a new BlackBerry Pearl with service from AT&T. As I was driving to South Lake Tahoe last Saturday morning I was on the phone with my wife. As I was passing a large AT&T Wireless billboard, the call was dropped. I thought it was funny that a call would be dropped right…
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I'm going there tomorrow
Read more: I'm going there tomorrowThe picture was taken in 2003, but Heavenly got a few snow storms in the past two weeks so skiing should be excellent.
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Using rich:orderingList and rich:listShuttle components
Read more: Using rich:orderingList and rich:listShuttle componentsrich:orderingList lets you arrange values by moving them up or down. It’s based on a data table component, so you can put any object inside with any number of “columns” or attributes shown. Code: <rich:orderingList value=”#{carsBean.allCars}” var=”car” converter=”carConverter”> <rich:column> <h:facet name=”header”>Make</f:facet> <h:outputText value=”#{car.make}”/> </rich:column> <rich:column> <f:facet name=”header”>Model</f:facet> <h:outputText value=”#{car.model}”/> </rich:column> </rich:orderingList> The other component is…
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New JSF UI component library from Mojjara (JSF RI) sandbox
Read more: New JSF UI component library from Mojjara (JSF RI) sandboxMojjara Scales is a new JSF component library released out of Mojarra (JSF RI) sandbox. Mojarra is a new name for JSF RI implementation. According to the project page, most components wrap Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) JavaScript widgets while documentation is still missing in action.
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How fast can you type on your BlackBerry?
Read more: How fast can you type on your BlackBerry?Last night I had dinner with friends from college. We try to get together once every month or two. One of them got out his BlackBerry device and told us how he was typing an email at a stop light. The light turned green but he didn’t finish typing the email and finished it as…
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RichFaces 3.1.3 GA released
Read more: RichFaces 3.1.3 GA releasedRichFaces 3.1.3 GA was released this week. I will post examples of new components later but for now here is the list of the new components with links to the demo site: rich:calendar with time picker rich:listShuttle rich:orderingList rich:componentControl rich:contextMenu For the rest of what’s new in 3.1.3: http://labs.jboss.com/auth/wiki/RichFacesWhatIsNewIn3_1_3