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"Best Tool for the Job" is a Myth
Browsing around the Q&A on JavaRanch.com I see a lot of the same questions when it comes to web frameworks. To paraphrase: "Which web framework should I choose and why?" I and others often respond with the typical canned answer. This answer comes in ...
Some Reasons Flex Looks Appealing
Update It has been brought to my attention that I have repeated some information contained on the Flex homepage in my ramblings here. I just wanted to point out that is wasn't intentional and I was not trying to plagiarize. But the fact that my ...
Wicket In Action: Chapter 1 Review
I got a surprise in my inbox the other day. Manning released the final ebook version of Wicket In Action. I was surprised because it had been a while since I got an update from Manning that I honestly forgot I had purchased the book. Normally I read a ...
SpringRCP IntelliJ SimpleApp
Yesterday I was going through this SpringRCP Tutorial. It is looking quite promising. My only real problem is that the only plugin available is for Netbeans and I use IntelliJ's IDEA for all my development. So I set out to see what it would take to get ...
[Swing] Implementing Goto Class and Find resource
Last week I wrote an entry on implementing application wide hotkeys or global hotkeys. I mentioned writing a new article on how I implemented IntelliJ's Goto Class though I think calling it the same as Eclipse's Open Resource is a better name for my ...

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Re: "Best Tool for the Job" is a Myth
One of the things I do as a professional, is realizing solutions that were the best available at one point no longer are. At that point, you must be able to admit this, and choose differently. But when using a full-stack framework, this is generally not ...
Re: Some Reasons Flex Looks Appealing
Hey Gregg, I don't know anything about Flex but do you mean that we can build a front end Flex application that talks to server side Java code (Servlet, JSP and whatever)? What is your favourite list for Flex & ActionScript? Thanks.
Re: [Swing] Application Wide Hotkeys
One solution is to simply ensure that each action has a corresponding JMenuItem in one of your menus. Assign accelerators to the menu items, and you get global keyboard handling for free from Swing's built-in menu infrastructure.

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	Title and summary	Date/time
1	JQuery Tip: Recognizing AJAX Requests on the Server I discovered an interesting gem today while inspecting the header data for a web application I am working on. When you use JQuery to send an AJAX request to the server, JQuery places a nice little header entry: X-Requested-With : XMLHttpRequest ...	Jul 31, 2008 4:38:00 PM
2	Improve Form Usability I just read an article on how to improve form usability with auto messages. Antonio did a great demonstration. These kinds of things can really spruce up a form. He used prototype and scriptaculous so I thought it would be a good idea to show a similar ...	Apr 13, 2008 11:46:00 PM