I’ve been keeping a list of interesting links in a text file for the last couple years and only recently thought better of it and started using del.icio.us to store links. And I wanted to show the links as part of this blog, but I wasn’t satisfied with just including their RSS feed of my [...]
My latest project at work launched a couple weeks ago, unfortunately there isn’t much to look at, but it’s not like I’m a Flash developer, so unless I start writing Windows apps, no one will ever be able to see my work anyway. Alas, a major portion of the project involved consolidating some business [...]
Today I worked on a feature in a Struts web application where I needed to retrieve an RSS feed that is protected by Basic Authentication and then display the the results of the feed in a web page. I’ve heard alot about ROME in the past couple weeks, so I decided to try it [...]
A couple weeks ago I attended the Boston .NET User Group to hear Jeffrey McManus give a talk on how ebay is using web services. I took a bunch of notes during his presentation, which I’m putting up here semi-edited. The first part of the talk was mainly about ebay the company; how much [...]
Last week Tim Bray mentioned the May 1st release of UBL 1.0, which he defines as “… a set of general-purpose XML-encoded business documents: orders, acknowledgments, packing slips, invoices, receipts.” He goes on to compare UBL to HTML, saying that because it (UBL) is a generic format rather than a format made for a [...]
The February Amazon Web Services Newsletter had some pretty cool applications:
Blogfuel: “Use blogfuel to create a link to an individual item at amazon (using ASIN Search) to illustrate your book review. Or place the code in the sidebar of your blog as a “What I am currently reading feature”. You have control over the width, [...]
I wanted to create RSS feeds for karensrecipes.com using Java. I did my ‘research‘, came to this page: Ben Hammersley.com: Java RSS libraries and then used the RSS4j library to create a servlet that serves up dynamic RSS feeds of the 10 most recently created recipes per category (samples: Breakfast, Soup, Barbeque..).
They syntax [...]
Hey, it’s working! I ironed out the problems I was having with my J2ME Recipe Viewer application. Couple things I did to make it purr:
First, I mentioned that I was getting an IO error when trying to make a wireless connection using the phone, it became apparent that I needed way better [...]
As an exercise, I wrote up a J2ME client for Karensrecipes.com. As I mentioned a couple days ago, it sends HTTP requests to a servlet to receive a list of recipes as XML, and then (given a specific recipe), sends another HTTP request for the recipe details (again returned as XML). It works great [...]
At work we use a homemade bug tracking system I built a couple years ago during a slow month. Although the code isn’t exactly stellar, it works pretty well and most importantly, people actually use it(!). My biggest beef with it (and all our internal web-based applications) is that every time I want [...]
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