Monthly Archives: October 2009

Lessons learned trusting Code Generators

By Ben | Published: October 30, 2009
To give you a short answer beforehand: Do not do it! But let me tell you my experience: I started using Jersey back in 2007 when it was at version 0.4. Netbeans however already had a plugin to get you started on the fast track by generating REST Webservices out of Entity Classes, which you can [...]
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Website deployments: Plain old Ant

By Ben | Published: October 21, 2009
In the last entry I was mentioning several solutions for managing web site deployments and packaging for php webapps. Since with PHP there is usually no build process already at development time this has often to be established especially for test & production – and yes there needs to be a build process if you [...]
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Initialise External Javascript in Page Fragments

By Ben | Published: October 1, 2009
In the last couple of hours I was contemplating around maintainable, performant and non-obstrusive Javascript on a project I am working on. Following situation: - Much Inline Javascript - Many JS and CSS files referenced - No Frontend Deployment/Build Process in place - Some Javascript values are set at page generation time by Server Side code - Webserver is not configured [...]
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