Archive for May, 2008

Where is IList.addAll() in AS3/Flex?

Being used to the excellent collection apis of Java, I come to expect that of other platforms too. The Flex platform has the IList interface, which amongst other methods, has the removeAll() method. Sadly, it is missing the addAll(Collection) method, so I am left to do this instead:
coll.removeAll();
var newElements : ArrayCollection = xxx as ArrayCollection;
for [...]

May 26, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Programming, Rich Internet Applications  8 Comments

Making IntelliJ IDEA Run Faster and Better

I took the time to listen to the, about one hour long, IntelliJ IDEA Architecture and Performance video, by Dmitry Jemerov from Jetbrains. Most of the beginning of the video was not very intesting for me, but 37 minutes into the video, the good stuff comes Here is a little extract, of some [...]

May 20, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Tools  2 Comments

IntelliJ IDEA 8 Will Kill the EncodingPlugin

…which is a good thing.
I just read the post New Approach to Encoding in IntelliJ IDEA, which outlines new features in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA version 8 with respect to file encoding. It has long time been a problem, that IDEA only had an IDE-level setting for encoding of files. It was this problem, that [...]

May 19, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tools  No Comments

Conditional Page Rendering in Java Web Frameworks – Best Practices?

This is a post, that requires your input I want to harvest the information in your brains, on how your favourite web framework is best at not cluttering the view pages, when you need to show them differently for each user or state of the application.
Definition: Conditional Views
I have no better name, than [...]

May 17, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Design, Programming  8 Comments

64bit Flash Player on Linux – Do It Yourself

In a recent blog post, James Ward from Adobe write about where the 64bit support for flash player on linux is. The main point in the post is, that Adobe, by open sourcing the VM of the flashplayer in the tamarin project, has made it possible for us to do the 64bit support for them. [...]

May 16, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Operating Systems  2 Comments

Google Doctype – Great Documentation For Web Developers

I just noticed google doctype, which is a project at Google Code, that documents “all” web developer knowledge at google. This includes a lot of html and css knowledge, JavaScript code examples and a lot of information on web security.
All nicely presented in the project wiki at code.google.com. A “must bookmark”

May 14, 2008  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

SpringSource Application Platform

So, Spring Source has been able to keep a secret from us Secretly, they have been developing what looks a lot like a new application server, not like the JEE market, but with the springframework at its core. A well kept secret, which I did not see coming, even though we might have [...]

May 5, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Tools  2 Comments