I was looking into the new CSS3 transformations and 3D capabilities for a photo gallery I was creating for my blog and created the following effect that acts like a spinner allowing you to spin through the images as if they were on a turnstile. The best part is that all the animations and perspectives [...]
I’ve come to a strange realization today. Several industry leaders and even some companies (http://d8p.it/17392,Leaving_JSPs_in_the_dust:_moving_LinkedIn_to_dust.js_client-side_templates_%7C_LinkedIn_Engineering.html) are moving to using Javascript and related libraries to move most code to the client for high scalability solutions. In thought, that is a great idea. However, it’s a bit of a strange paradigm. Initially, there was only a handful [...]
Fibonacci sequences and their calculations are always an interesting computer science question and sometimes even an interview question. There are endless ways to calculate a fibonacci value and mathematicians way smarter than I am have much better ways. This is really just a blog post on three simple Java-based solutions. In no way is this [...]
I needed an easy way to get an API up and running for a project that exposed JMX as an API (in order to easily interoperate with non-Java clients [ie: iOS…more details coming]). There are a variety of tools, resources, languages, etc to do this, but the one that I found easiest was via Grails [...]
Generics is one of the more prominent features from JDK 5 that allows you to basically specify the type as a parameter. For example, in JDK 1.4, a List was always a List of Objects. If you wanted to get something out of the list, you had to cast it. JDK 5 helped to resolve [...]
One of the areas I have dug into lately is around code generation and class file manipulation. It’s actually quite amazing how much you learn and understand when you begin to understand what the JVM is doing and how class files are constructed. Even though on a day-by-day basis, class generation is rarely used, it [...]
I recently decided to sit down and play with jQuery Mobile and absolutely fell in love with it. I’ve been designing web applications for years, but the pure simplicity in jQuery Mobile is absolutely amazing. The one part I’ve never been good at is graphics with respect to web design. jQuery Mobile removes that requirement [...]
Two of the libraries I’m most interested in lately are Grails and CDI/JSR299 (Weld being the implementation). The problem is that the two are really not compatible directly with each other. First, CDI is a JavaEE6 technology requiring a compliant container (ie: Glassfishv3) whereas Grails can run in any servlet container (plain ol’ WAR). Second, [...]
NOTE: Documentation and code presented here is based on living and changing documentation by the JSR committee and subject to change causing this article to be inaccurate or outdated. I am also not affiliated with the JSR or its members. This blog article is probably a bit premature being it is centered around JDK 8, [...]
So, I’ve been intending on writing this silly article for awhile, but have not got around to it until today. Anyways, every time I hear someone mention a new language and then look into it, the first thing I notice is how they print the standard “Hello World” statement to the screen. After the first [...]
