This is a book review of Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development by Jonas X. Yuan. Having no previous experience with this platform, I bought this book to try to get an overview of Liferay. The book starts out by giving an overview of Liferay and an overview of JSR-286. The bulk of the book (90%) … Continue reading Book Review: Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development
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Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
This is a review of "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" by Andy Hunt. So this book was a change of pace for my tech book library as it is not really a technical book, but rather a sort of users guide for that piece of software in your head, called your brain. The book explains the … Continue reading Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
Review: Using Drupal
This is a review of the book "Using Drupal" by a myriad of authors. I picked up this book because I've been evaluating possible migration alternatives for an existing website that requires a mixture of CMS, light-DAM and user community features (blogging, wikis etc). The playing field seems pretty big between Joomla and Drupal (from … Continue reading Review: Using Drupal
Upgrade to Spring AS 0.8 and others
The Spring Actionscript project is maturing and as they do, they keep teasing apart the entire project. So I am now upgrading from 0.7 to 0.8 and if you are to, here is what you can expect. (change log here) a) If you were using the older AS3Reflect library, well now they moved that again … Continue reading Upgrade to Spring AS 0.8 and others
AccessDecisionManager does not support secure object class…
This post will be short and sweet, but for those of you using Spring Security and come across this exception, hopefully this post will be of some help to you. Here is the exception: I received this exception today when I began to add some http/web level security into my application which already had some … Continue reading AccessDecisionManager does not support secure object class…
Review: Wicked Cool PHP
This is a review of "Wicked Cool PHP" by William Steinmetz and Brian Ward Ok, let me sum this book up quickly: This book is for beginners. To be more specific, this book would be absolutely perfect if your job (as a beginner) was to create a PHP website with some interactivity however you were … Continue reading Review: Wicked Cool PHP
Add Hibernate 3.3.2 as a dependency in your Maven POM
Recently I had to update a Maven POM to get the latest release of Hibernate (3.3.2) and if you are in this boat as well, here is what you have to do: 1) Ensure that you add the JBoss repository to your <code>repositories</code> section as the latest releases are not in the standard maven repository. … Continue reading Add Hibernate 3.3.2 as a dependency in your Maven POM
Review: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
This is a book review for "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know" by O'Reilly with dozens of contributors. This book is a quick read at roughly 200 pages and is targeted towards those folks who find themselves in the role of the "software architect". Many of the contributors will be names you recognize such … Continue reading Review: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Review: RESTful Web Services
This is a book review for "RESTful Web Services" by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby If you want to get under the hood and really understand how to properly implement a RESTful web service then this book is for you. The treatment of the topic is excellent. After reading this book, I feel that so … Continue reading Review: RESTful Web Services
Simplified Java encryption with Jasypt
Recently I had to evaluate an older encryption service that existed in an Java app. The service was written in the early days when the JCE was relatively new and it used BouncyCastle as the provider. While coded quite well the service had code which handled all sorts of the low level JCE stuff like … Continue reading Simplified Java encryption with Jasypt
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