Archive for the 'Web Development' Category

Are you a Java web developer?

Monday, October 17th, 2005

And are you in Boston? Because I’ve had at least three or four people asking me if I could come work for them, or if I knew any other Java developers who do UI work. They still haven’t found a replacement for me at my last job, and that’s after more than a […]

Loose ligaments

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Loose ligaments are what I have. Well, that’s no surprise to me, my thumbs are double-jointed and I’ve always been able to stretch my fingers back farther than most people. Apparently, though, these loose ligaments may make me more suseptible to repetitive strain injuries. Lucky me.

Anyway, it’s been interesting seeing a doctor […]

Ergonomic keyboard

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Well, this past weekend was a sales tax holiday here in Massachusetts, so of course I had to go out shopping.

I didn’t really get all that much: some shoes and clothing (no advantage there - clothes are always tax-free in Massachusetts), an inexpensive shredder (to shred all those pre-approved credit card offers until my opting […]

Hey, this AJAX thing is pretty easy, after all

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Today, for the first time, I added AJAX (aka XMLHttpRequest) to a web application. (Well, it wasn’t actually AJAX, because I was making a synchronous request instead of an asynchronous one, but close enough.) I’ve known about the technique for just slightly longer than it has been dubbed “AJAX”, but never taken the […]

JSTL functions

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Javadoc

ClassCastException when using an XSL variable

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

XSL can be so frustrating.

So today, I wanted to be able to do something like this:

<xsl:variable name=”foo”>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test=”bar”>
<xsl:copy-of select=”bar”/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
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