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These look very useful. ActionScript has the dynamic invocation features of course, since it's crawling up to static types from being purely dynamic. It also has the optional and named parameters in exactly the same way. What it is lacking is the ...
October 25
This is a completely different issue from the declarative vs. visual building. But what you are saying is that views never have any logic and they are always static building blocks to be assembled by controllers. This may be true of simple views, ...
October 17
It's not just about the UI... MXML is an entire declarative complement to ActionScript... It allows you to do the parts of your app that make sense in a declarative context in XML... both GUI elements and non GUI. I think you may be thinking of e...
October 16
I said the same thing when I first looked at Interface Builder for doing iPhone work... that it was the best WYSIWYG interface builder I'd used - and really the first want that I wanted to use in lieu of procedural setup. But after trying the Flex...
October 16
Thank you, Pat, for this in-depth explanation along with code examples. We've adopted this technique for serving static Java data content. FYI, here are sample size numbers, encoding same object in different formats (in # of chars) Xml 211248 Jso...
October 12
May 22
"Freezer" looks it does something very similar: http://code.google.com/p/gwt-freezedry/.
May 20
I was also excited to see that it supports JPA with real transactions! There are some limitations, but this is a big improvement over, for example, Amazon's SimpleDB... at least in terms of the API.
April 9
Pat Niemeyer and Scott Murphy are now friends
March 27
Boy I am glad I stopped doing Java. 10 years is enough.
March 21
I've been thinking of going with Amazon EC2. This sweetens the deal. But has anyone tried out www.gogrid.com?
March 13
I have to make the jump and give Amazon a try.
March 13
The EC2 option just keeps getting better. I'll be interested to see how Rackspace's new cloud platform stacks up.
March 12
A blog post by Pat Niemeyer was featured
Today Amazon introduced "reserved instance" pricing for users who tend to run long lived instances. The usual pricing for a small instance is $0.10 per cpu-hour, which works out to about $73/month if you keep your instance alive 24x7. With the r...
March 12
P.S. when I pinged Slicehost about this they noted something else that dropped recently: http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers.jsp. This is the Rackspace's cloud computing EC2 competitor. They are not live yet (coming next week) but their pricing look...
March 12
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Today Amazon introduced "reserved instance" pricing for users who tend to run long lived instances. The usual pricing for a small instance is $0.10 per cpu-hour, which works out to about $73/month if you keep your instance alive 24x7. With the r...
March 12
"However I think that the starting points are kind of an apples to oranges comparison." Ah, the comparison was not meant to be between your particular Java stack and RoR; it was a comparison between what I am calling the "best-of-breed" versus an...
March 2
yah, the problem is that we have a legacy world where all of the browsers will try http first, leaving them open to the attack. And even if we mandate that browsers try https first, as long as http still exists as a fallback for sites that don't r...
March 1
As networks get faster, why not just make https the default for everything?
March 1
So Pat, once I used freemarker instead of jsp's, and found it more enjoyable to work with although there were some annoyances. Would that break the proposed stack?
March 1

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Occupation:
Software Developer, Other
Company:
Ikayzo.com
Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:
BeanShell, C, C++, HTML, Java, Javascript, Lisp, Ruby, SQL, XML, Other
About Me:
I am the author of the Learning Java series of books by O'Reilly & Associates and the BeanShell Java Scripting language.
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Amazon EC2 cloud computing got much cheaper today...

Today Amazon introduced "reserved instance" pricing for users who tend to run long lived instances.

The usual pricing for a small instance is $0.10 per cpu-hour, which works out to about $73/month if you keep your instance alive 24x7.

With the reserved pricing you can pay a fixed amount for a term of 1 year or 3 years and get a reduced hourly usage rate of $.03 per cpu-hour For 1 year the up front fee is $325, for 3 years it's $500.

If you run your instance all the time I believe that works o… Continue

Posted on March 12, 2009 at 11:42am — 4 Comments

Pat Niemeyer

Browser SSL attacks presented at Black Hat...

Moxie Marlinspike gave a presentation titled: "New Tricks for Defeating SSL in Practice" at the Black Hat conference last week and released code that demonstrates practical, man in the middle based, attacks on browser security.

The results are a bit depressing, but not entirely new or unexpected. The attacks that he presented in the talk mostly skirt around SSL and while they appear to be ef… Continue

Posted on February 24, 2009 at 5:57am — 6 Comments

Pat Niemeyer

A End to End Walk through our Java Stack...



In this post I will take a walk through our preferred Java application stack from end to end, noting what I consider to be some useful practices along the way. While it's a never ending process to re-evaluate packages and tools as time goes on, I have found that this basic architecture has held up quite well for many years. We've used it on numerous large commercial applications ranging from critical banking and finance apps to high volume entertainment sites. I'm not going to try to g… Continue

Posted on February 22, 2009 at 1:10pm — 10 Comments

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Why doesn't Microsoft learn?

In this morning's headlines I came across the following pair of articles:

Apple to Integrate 'QuickTime Pro' Features into Snow Leopard?

Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge for More

The first is about how Apple, as part of the upcoming release of Mac OS X, is apparently going t… Continue

Posted on February 9, 2009 at 5:41am — 6 Comments

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Simpler and Speedier GWT with Server Side RPC Serialization

In this post I will describe how we are using server side GWT RPC serialization at Ikayzo to both improve performance and simplify client code logic.

First, let's have a quick recap of the normal startup sequence of a GWT application. As depicted below, it begins with the client requesting an HTML page containing a GWT script reference and static application text. All that is required in this initial page is a one line script that includes the GWT application's "nocache" file. The job o… Continue

Posted on February 4, 2009 at 5:30am — 8 Comments

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At 5:45pm on March 30, 2008, Daniel Leuck said…
Hey Pat - Check out how easy it is to build object graphs using C# 3.0's object initializers. Groovy builders are very similar and Jython supports easy graph building via named arguments to constructors. Java needs something like this, especially for Swing programming.
At 11:45pm on March 27, 2008, Cameron Souza said…
Are you the guy that wrote BeanShell and Learning Java?
 
 

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