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AppFuse News: Liquibase and wro4j Tutorials from J. Garc?a

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 30, 2012

New committer J. García has been doing a lot of work to improve i18n in AppFuse 2.2, as well as our Struts 2 support.   more »

Test Dashboard Article Up

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on November 30, 2012

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Secure JSON Services with Play Scala and SecureSocial

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 29, 2012

Last November, I traveled to Antwerp to speak at Devoxx. After my talk on HTML5 with Play Scala, Mattias Karlsson approached me and we had a chat about doing the same talk at Jfokus i   more »

Trying to make CoffeeScript work with Scalate and Play

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 28, 2012

A few weeks ago, I wrote about integrating Scalate with Play. The next steps in my Play Scala adventure will be trying to get the CoffeeScript module t   more »

Nurturing Leadership

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on November 27, 2012

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The Well-Grounded Java Developer Book Review

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 22, 2012

After finishing Core HTML5 Canvas, I dived into the next book on my list: The Well-Grounded Java Developer by Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg. I've known about this book since April of   more »

Griffon vs Eclipse4: First Round

Posted by: Andres Almiray on November 17, 2012

I've been doing Eclipse RCP development for the past 2 months as part of my day job (nope, Swing is not dead, it just so happens the customer is an Eclipse shop), and while we used Eclipse 3.x initially we switched to Eclipse 4.x in recent weeks.   more »

Debunking Management Myths

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on November 16, 2012

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Griffon: Bringing back the fun to desktop development

Posted by: Andres Almiray on November 15, 2012

Update: The article was written by the time Griffon 0.9.5 came out.   more »

What’s the Culture on Your Project?

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on November 15, 2012

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Working Long? Rethink Why

Posted by: Johanna Rothman on November 13, 2012

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Upgrading to Play 2: Anorm and Testing

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 10, 2012

This time last year, I decided I wanted to learn Scala. I chose the Play Framework as my vehicle for learning and I added CoffeeScript and Jade to the mix.   more »

What have I been working on at Taleo?

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 10, 2012

2011 has been a year of great clients for me. I started working with O.co a   more »

PhoneGap to the Rescue!

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 10, 2012

This is the 7th article in a series about my adventures developing a web application with HTML5, Play Scala, CoffeeScript and Jade. Previous art   more »

Play Scala's Anorm, Heroku and PostgreSQL Issues

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 10, 2012

This article is the 5th in a series on about my adventures developing a Fitness Tracking application for my talk at Devoxx in two weeks. Previous art   more »

Integrating Scalate and Jade with Play 1.2.3

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 10, 2012

At the beginning of this year, I decided I wanted to learn Scala. Since I'm a Web Frameworks Aficionado, I figured the best way to do that would be to learn Lift. I entered   more »

Integration Testing with HTTP, HTTPS and Maven

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 10, 2012

This time last year, I decided I wanted to learn Scala. I chose the Play Framework as my vehicle for learning and I added CoffeeScript and Jade to the mix. I packaged it all up, learned a bunch and presented it at Devoxx 2011.   more »

InfoQ's Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 8, 2012

Back in early October, InfoQ.com published a community research article titled Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM. Their goal seemed to be fairly simple: Using the new community resear   more »

How to build a Shot-Ski

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 8, 2012

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Why the bias against JSF?

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 8, 2012

In my last post about InfoQ's Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM, I received a thought-provoking comment from henk53: There is one little thing that does bother me in those presentations, and that's your fairly obvious bias against JSF. ..   more »

JSR 303 and JVM Web Framework Support

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 8, 2012

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Adding Search to AppFuse with Compass

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 8, 2012

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Refreshing AppFuse's UI with Twitter Bootstrap

Posted by: Matt Raible on November 8, 2012

The last time AppFuse had an update done to its look and feel was in way back in 2006. I've done a lot of consulting since then, which has included a fair bit of page speed optimizatio   more »

Griffon: i18n FXML content on the fly

Posted by: Andres Almiray on November 6, 2012

Saw earlier on twitter a post by Thomas Bolz (@TeaBeeOh) pertaining a particular issue he's currently facing: updating i18n content defined on an FXML file without restarting. Sadly for him the short answer is that it can't be done with what FXML and the   more »

Nighthacking in Basel: the aftermath

Posted by: Andres Almiray on November 4, 2012

Steve's Nighthacking tour made a stop in Basel today. We met at the Canoo office right after lunch time. Gerrit Grunwald (a.   more »