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"tag:web"
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eBay busybodying cranked up a notch
I am just about ready to stop using eBay altogether. Their level of customer support is so limited, you can't send them a message and get a response, you have to talk to them in real time on the phone, when you have a problem like this. I had been una... |
31-Mar-2013 |
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Web Site Fail du jour
So Vizio has this real nice Google TV set-top box called the Co-Star, that they are now taking pre-orders for. But the web site is a total fail from the human factors point of view. It has fields for allowing you to enter different shipping and billin... |
24-Jul-2012 |
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Removing embarassments from Firefox's remembered username form field
Ever made the boo-boo of typing your password as part of your username, like, by missing the tab key? This shows you how to fix it so it doesn't keep popping up, blocking "shoulder surfers" from seeing your password. |
31-Aug-2011 |
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Site Modernization
Every web site needs to keep improving, and your obd't servant is no different. I started almost exactly a year ago by replacing the old blog software with Pebble. Then I got busy with real work, and had to put aside site maintenance. Around the beg... |
26-Mar-2009 |
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Using Java enums properly in Seam
The Seam documentation covers this now, but it's a bit short of complete examples. Most of this probably applies to other JSF/JPA deployments too (but please don't ask me how). To make the list of a given enum's values available to the view, just add o... |
27-Jan-2009 |
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A Pox Upon all of your getMessage() calls
If you're not a Java programmer, you might as well run along to the next blog entry below. If you are, how often have you seen - or tolerated - code like this in a library you're using? try { clazz= Class.forName(classN... |
19-Jan-2009 |
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JavaFX: Late to the gate, but sweet
JavaFX is Sun's new Rich Client strategy for Java. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the demos on the JavaFX home page. Unlike Adobe Flash and unlike M$ Silverlight, this technology actually works on "minority" OSes - my OpenBSD laptop wi... |
27-Dec-2008 |
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Django Reverse-Engineer from Existing Legacy Tables
I've been playing a bit with Django, a Python-based web framework. One thing that people starting in Django seem to miss out on is the standard "how to I make model classes from my existing database tables"? That's not because you can't do th... |
4-Oct-2008 |
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What's wrong with the web, Part 45: Demanding Redundant Language Choice
Today's rant won't be politically correct. Not that you care, dear readers. A problem with the Web in Canada is that most corporate and government sites force you to pick a language. Why is that a problem? Because you've already picked a language. If ... |
21-Aug-2008 |
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What's wrong with the web, Part 44: Browser Version Fascism
I get really frustrated when web sites tell me to "upgrade" from Firefox 3 to Firefox 1.5. I understand that they feel they have to play silly little trix to make their web site look like some over-inspired abstract landscape, but can they pl... |
19-Aug-2008 |
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What's wrong with the web, Part 43(b)
Here's another example of a stupid web site problem that could have been easily avoided. I sent this to (name of web site) this morning; let's see if I get a response from this one. Your Web Developers need to get with the "don't make me think&qu... |
19-Jul-2008 |
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What's wrong with the web, Part 43
This is a cleaned-up version of what I sent to a major Canadian corporation's web team after trying to use their site. --------------------... |
18-Jun-2008 |
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Seam Leaves Home (on good terms)
In addition to cranking out a new stable release (2.0.1.GA) and a new early access release (2.1.0.A1), The JBoss Seam framework has been renamed to "The Seam Framework" and has a new website, http://www.seamframe... |
24-Mar-2008 |
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Now Digg This
Digg is, of course, a social networking site for rating blogs and other web resources. I just found a site that not only shows how to add a Digg button to one's blog, but applies to the particular blogging software I use, Pebble. Thanks to Patrick Melo... |
6-Feb-2008 |
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OpenStreetMap - Toronto Mapping Weekend, Dec 1-2, 2007
OpenStreetMap is a project to build a free (unencumbered) map of the world, similar in scope to the various commercial web-based maps that you might have used. They're making good progress in some areas and, in fact, the outlines of Toronto are now pre... |
27-Nov-2007 |
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What's wrong with the Web, part 42
In a story on BoingBoing, a "web developer" who got a major bit of Sticker Shock on his eye(candy)Phone from AT&T wrote: "On the way to the airport, I activated the per-use international roaming data plan - the only one offered to m... |
31-Jul-2007 |
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New Blog, Same As the Old Blog
After using my own cobbled-together blogware for a few years, I realized I'd probably never find the time to "finish" writing it. So, I decided to get something better. Around this time somebody called my attention to a web-based blogging pac... |
23-Mar-2007 |
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Quick Links added to site
I've added a series of UNIX and Java "quick links" to the bottom of [this site's] main page. |
1-Jul-2003 |
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TV Show on JavaServer Pages
My Internet TV show Inside Java Server Pages is released by WatchIT.com. You can buy it on CD-ROM or watch it online. There's a free online preview of the show's highlights; your big chance to see me in a suit and tie :-) |
20-Mar-2002 |