Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label development. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

My Current Heroes

In no frackin' particular order.

- Apache mod alias "Redirect" feature. Smashingly shiny! Saved my butt because tiny_mce somehow ain't doing relative url mapping.
- JPEGImageEncode/Decoder and JPEGCodec bundled with most JDK's. Automatic server side image resizing galore. No more excuses to not accept high resolution images.
- The lazy web, for providing algorithms to keep that frackin' image aspect ratio.


Some thoughts, making an application user friendly is like asking a makeup artist to make her model look natural. Its a long and not so easy process.


dev nox
-- drag and drop, resize on demand, server side processing junkie...

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Transient Objects

Am addicted to XML serialization and deserialization via XStream. It rocks!

One thing to watch out if you are using dependency injection (AspectJ) is to make sure your helper objects are declared transient. Else XStream will complain of stack overflow. So save yourself from countless omit field statements and just declare those injected objects as transient.


dev nox
-- swimming in a sea of XML data...