Strategic eCommerce Technology and Architecture
Posted in code, Enterprise Development on Mar 30th, 2010
The Problem to Solve Many web applications collect financial information to submit as leads for loans, credit card applications, bank information or other purposes. To ensure that the submitted SSN is valid, a validation algorithm must be implemented against the submitted value. Many websites in their infancy check only for length and null, but there [...]
Posted in Best Practices, code, Enterprise Development on Mar 20th, 2010
Django has wonderful unit testing functionality built into the framework. It is often ignored because Django gives so much functionality “out of the box”, but this doesn’t mean that one shouldn’t do “their part” when extending the framework to build your own applications. Tests are a great way to “figure out” what needs to be [...]
Posted in code, Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2010
Django has become a friend of mine over the last year. I had previous experience with Ruby on Rails, and was always disappointed when it came to deploying and productizing the application, and the actual framework APIs and implementations underwent too many changes over the last few years to give me the confidence I needed [...]
Posted in code on Nov 23rd, 2009
I’m assuming that if you’re here you already know the basics of REpresentational State Transfer. I’m also going to assume that you’ve looked at all the goodies at the Restlet community site. Further, I’m thinking that you want a quick start guide to show you how to implement it. The following tutorial shows how I [...]
Posted in code on Aug 10th, 2008
Taking JavaScript More Seriously As I migrated from basic HTML to JSPs and finally complex Server-Side Java, I became less and less respectful of client-side languages, and most of my colleagues were pretty much in lockstep with me. While working in the view layer, adding JavaScript was a tedious necessity, and most programmers I worked [...]
Posted in code on Mar 27th, 2008
The Problem: Calling a function many times throughout a particular JavaScript file or block. JavaScript is often used to manipulate a variety of HTML objects on a page, i.e. to “show” or “hide” them, or perform some type of toggled functionality on a variety of buttons, divs, etc. It is not uncommon to see code [...]
Posted in code on Jan 13th, 2008
Problem: You wish to populate a “collection_select” box with an Array. I recently had an issue where I wanted to create a select box populated from an array of continuous years. I wanted to use thecollection_select method so it would have a minimal “code footprint” and play nice with the form that I had built. [...]
Posted in code on Nov 9th, 2007
Cocoon has been around for years with an active development community. I tried to work with it in 2002 using the books and resources available at the time, but I was using Windows at that point and the books really focused more on a Unix/Linux deployment, and at the time I didn’t have the chops [...]
Posted in code on Sep 6th, 2007
I often find myself writing lightweight performance tests as part of a suite of the unit tests, to make sure that my code hasn’t been written in a way to destroy the performance of an application. I also create performance tests as a standalone Application to test (for instance) how many HttpServletRequest/Response calls can be [...]
Posted in code on May 31st, 2007
IntelliJ’s support of JBoss-rules in no way compares to Eclipse, but even that isn’t enough to get me off my butt and move from my fave. That said, I created a semi-literate FileType for the drl files so that IntelliJ will recognize them and you will get a decent amount of syntax highlighting. Is it [...]
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