At my current client we had the first user acceptance test of a new Oracle ADF application. We have a lot of data entry pages in our application, where database records are presented in editable tables. Each table has a tool bar, with a “Create new record” button on it. One of the things the users noticed during the test, is that when they created a new record, the new record showed up in the table and was selected, but the first input field in the record didn’t have the input focus. I looked for a setting in ADF to set the input focus after creating a new record, but didn’t find anything. So I created my own solution…

Akelos touts itself as a port of Ruby on Rails (RoR) to PHP but, frankly, I think that’s mostly marketing. Hell, even in the footer disclaimer on the Akelos site they minimize the R0R relationship. Not that that’s a bad thing per se (I wouldn’t want to be associated with RoR at the moment either).

The topic of this post is how we go from that interface, to some kind of mechanism that can actually process the incoming requests and send the appropriate responses back to the client. Note that i make a difference between processing requests and handling them. Processing the requests is done by the Request Processor, and each request will be handled by its very own Request Handler. The Request Processor accepts all incoming requests, delegates the actual handling of each request to the correct Request Handler and will then send back all of the responses to the client.

It’s Tuesday morning and a bug has just been found in production. We were about to start working on a user story, but we need to switch gears and fix this bug. Our repository currently looks like the following...

Want to use Spring but don't want to use Java? Spring for Python is an Inversion of Control container for Python with several additional features such as aspect oriented programming. To learn more read on.

Even though I’m a much bigger fan of distributed apps than using UI bound data binding, it’s still important for me to know how these various tools work – especially since I need to write about them in my updated

One of the more obscure features introduced in Silverlight 3 is the {RelativeSource} markup extension. It's poorer than its counterpart in WPF because the Silverlight version supports only two modes: Self and TemplatedParent. There are precious few examples out there demonstrating why you'd ever need {RelativeSource} in Silverlight.

Until recently, just about every introduction to Silverlight started out by talking about Xaml; the markup language of Silverlight, WPF and Workflow. I believe it is time to stop.

In our series about ASP.NET authentication, so far we’ve covered all the rather normal cases where you’d want to have the ability to log into different domains attached to the same application? There are a few additional hurdles you’ll need to overcome to make this work correctly.

Magellan was designed to work without an Inversion of Control or Dependency Injection container, to keep it simple and accessible. However, as applications become more complicated, modern WPF applications can benefit immensely from IOC containers. Magellan's extensibility points make using a container easy. Magellan resolves and instantiates two main types of objects - controllers and views. The out of the box implementation uses conventions, but they can be overridden.

Ever have one of those days where everything you check into source control is wrong? Also, how exactly is that day is different from any other? But seriously. Code that is visible is code that can be wrong. No surprise there. But did you know that even the code you can't see may be wrong, too?

This guide will walk you through getting started with Magellan. You will need a copy of Visual Studio 2008 with Service Pack 1.

The need to update websites faster to keep content fresh has been ever growing. Ever since the first business owner wanted their Web designer to update their website faster, content management systems have played an important role on the Web. Why does this matter to you? How do you know if your company is read

Teamprise allows developers using the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) running on operating systems including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X to build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. (Team Foundation Server is Microsoft’s team-collaboration tool for developers.)

useful write up on customizing Spring MVC @Controller method argument signature

Migrating ASP.NET WebForms design patterns to ASP.NET MVC

Last week I attended a groovy & grails training by SpringSource. My first introduction into grails is about 2 years a go. I attended a talk at the spring experience. Back than I liked it, tried it, but did not really use it. By now a lot has changed, most of all very good tool integration by intellij. Last week I had the change to go to a training, now I am motivated to start using grails more often. This post I will talk you through a grails application I have created for a project of mine. I also take you through some of the things I learned last week. Finally I’ll show you that you can create a google app engine application using grails. There are ways to create grails applications, I’ll show you how to do it using the latest intellij 9 beta release.

I downloaded and unzipped Griffon 0.2 today. Because I set GRIFFON_HOME and added its bin to PATH, I could immediately begin using it in NetBeans IDE (to which end I recompiled the NetBeans Griffon plugin so that it now works in 6.8 Beta).

JPolite is a pure front-end portal framework based on jQuery & BlueTrip CSS framework, with a handful of jQuery plugins already integrated. It provides a compact yet powerful foundation for custom AJAX web applications with Netvibes like user experiences.