Introduction There are Chrome extensions for play (like, say, Rather), and then there are other extensions. Serious extensions. Extensions for Serious Business. I quite like my extensions for Serious Business times. I think you might too — it’s a fairly…
The story so far… The integration framework went live, along with a little catch-all for errors that would store what the error was, and what we were trying to integrate with when it happened. A tiny (hideous) dashboard was thrown…
Introduction )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) If this rings a bell, this may be the article for you. ECMAScript 6 has a range of quite neat functions – I’m looking forward to seeing what people come up with using it. One that caught my…
Recently a URL started making its way around various social platforms, advertising what seemed to be an imminent South African AC/DC tour. Hosted at zadc.co.za, which seemed to be a quite clever combination of AC/DC and ZA, it all seemed…
Yoda’s been through a lot. Moving from sitting on the Jedi council, through watching your order get decimated (by a Jedi you didn’t want), to living in a swamp – it’s a rough deal for a 900 year old dude.…
Introduction Documentation is important. Okay, let’s be slightly more precise – good documentation is important. Take as an example the IntelliJ plugin documentation – at the time of writing, it’s hopefully out of date. Trying to find any useful sources…
Introduction JavaFx, although being far from perfect (whyyyy all those -fx prefixed “css” properties?) is definitely better than any of the previous attempts at Java desktop apps. Historically, Java has always put the “ewwwy” in GUI, and the incredibly programmatic…
Introduction JSF supports parameter substitution out-of-the-box, but only so far as using numbered indices, which aren’t insanely easy to read or remember. For example,
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<h:outputFormat value="{0} comes out as {1}"> <f:param value="This"/> <f:param value="That"/> </h:outputFormat> |
This outputs “This comes out as that.” – fine for your everyday message, but when…
Introduction JavaFX’s integration with web pages is quite impressive – you can query the DOM, execute arbitrary JavaScript and get results back. In addition, you can trigger changes on the Java-side from the web page. In this brief introduction we’ll look…
Introduction I’ve been working with the ANT API whilst putting together a build tool (long story) recently. There isn’t a whole lot of documentation available on the ‘net (in fact, there’s explicitly little documentation in cases), so here are two…