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Dec 13

Another shameless plug: Moodle promotion at Packt

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The good folks at Packt Publishing, having already realised they can bribe me to mention their promotions, have again come through with another excellent promotion worthy of your attention and hard-earned money. This time it’s Moodle Month, a fantastic deal Read more

Nov 21

I’m an asshole – ignore me

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I had a very unpleasant experiece on Saturday. I took my daughter to see Sinterklaas arrive in Aarschot (if you don’t live in Belgium, it’s equivalent to seeing Santa Claus come to town). Sinterklaas arrives (albeit in a car – Read more

Nov 15

Semi-synchronicity: Deferred downloads based on time

steveLeave a commentjava, open source, play frameworkjava, open source, play!, software engineering

Hmm, another blog entry on the Play framework. You must be sooo surprised! Play allows you to suspend requests while doing heavy computation – this frees up your application to continue processing new requests, regardless of how long the computation Read more

Nov 05

Deadbolt – wtf was I thinking?

steveLeave a commentjava, open source, play framework, securityjava, open source, play!, quick&easy, software engineering

I just re-read my previous post and thought to myself…huh? What’s the point in telling people who’ll probably never even read the blog to make sure they cache in order to improve performance? The answer came to me in a Read more

Oct 27

Deadbolt – make sure your Play! framework app’s security is efficient

steveLeave a commentjava, open source, play framework

If you’re using Deadbolt to provide authorisation support for your Play! app, you need to be aware that DeadboltHandler#getRoleHolder() can potentially be called a lot due to the template tags. A rule of thumb is that for every #{restrict} or Read more

Oct 12

Add funkier feedback to your Play! apps

steveLeave a commentjava, open source, play framework, user interface designjava, open source, play!, ui

Providing feedback to users following some action is important if you don’t want them confused or – worse – annoyed with your application. You can achieve this by adding something to the view following every action, but the question is Read more

Sep 29

Shameless plug: 2011 Packt Publishing Open Source Awards

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The good folks over at Packt Publishing have found a good way to get me back in the blogging habit, which is to say, bribe me with some free books in return for promoting their 2011 Open Source Awards. Sounds Read more

Sep 29

9 months since the last entry?

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Wow, nearly 9 months since my last blog entry! I realised I’ve been pretty busy this year, but this seems like a fairly major gap! I have to get in the habit of blogging small entries, and finish off some Read more

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