I have recently been challenged by a colleague with a .Net background about the way I sometimes use session beans in web applications. Indeed, I like to implement DAOs as session beans. Some people argue that it’s best not to directly implement CRUD methods in session beans. The main reason being that they prefer to … Read more
Today I went to the Solutions Linux Open source conference and met the founder of JasperReports: Teodor Danciu. He is Romanian and speaks a very good French. I had a quick chat with him. First, I thanked him for creating that great reporting library and then I asked him if the generated Excel files are … Read more
I just installed this nice plugin that makes it possible to use the Amazon Carousel Widget inside WordPress posts. Using it now to display the various books I have reviewed during the past few years. The reviews are listed here : http://longbeach.developpez.com/ Pretty cool, isn’t it ? 🙂 I have also added it at the … Read more
I heard about a tool which seems to be helpful to design prototypes that help design web applications when functionalities are still not final.
You drag and drop components and generate prototypes or specifications (word), with no programming. The generated code of the prototype is HTML and JavaScript.
I found this screencast quite cool. In less than 14 mn, James Ward, a well-known technical evangelist for Flex and Adobe, shows us 3 or 4 simple ways to fetch data from a backend written in Java and how to render this data in a Flex application using the DataGrid component. http://www.jamesward.com/videos/flex_java.html