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DWR version 3.0 Release Candidate 1
DWR version 3.0 The much awaited DWR version 3.0 has reached release candidate 1. What's new? RPC Enhancements Varargs support Method overloading (DWR tries to copy Java's method matching rules) Typed parameters (so you can say new Apple()
Posted: Dec. 16, 2008 11:11 AM
XSS Filtering
If you want to protect yourself from a XSS attack, what characters should you escape? I've seen 2 recommendations: ', ", <, > and & should be converted to &apos;, &quot;, &lt;, &gt;, &amp; Convert anything tha
Posted: Dec. 4, 2008 06:47 PM
Why is the web the default development platform?
10 years ago the default was probably VB6/Windows, these days it’s just the web. Why? If we don't know what's right about the web, then it's hard to know how to build on the success. 4 reasons why; and they've all got something vital in common.
Posted: Nov. 19, 2008 08:17 AM
Defining The Open Web
Brad asked what the 'Open Web' is. Twice. My mum was always cross if she had to ask 3 times, so here's my stab. The Open Web is the user-remixable technologies that are shipped by the clear majority of major browsers So, for example: XHTML 2.0 is
Posted: Jul. 23, 2008 06:00 AM
Defining The Open Web
Brad asked what the 'Open Web' is. Twice. My mum was always cross if she had to ask 3 times, so here's my stab. The Open Web is the user-remixable technologies that are shipped by the clear majority of major browsers So, for example: XHTML 2.0 is
Posted: Jul. 23, 2008 06:00 AM
Lessons from Hosting a Website
You might have noticed that the getahead.org domain has been replaced by directwebremoting.org. There’s a story behind it ... 3 years ago when DWR started to be successful, I bought 2 identical servers, built them identically with the latest Deb
Posted: Jul. 22, 2008 11:46 AM
Lessons from Hosting a Website
You might have noticed that the getahead.org domain has been replaced by directwebremoting.org. There’s a story behind it ... 3 years ago when DWR started to be successful, I bought 2 identical servers, built them identically with the latest Deb
Posted: Jul. 22, 2008 11:46 AM
Useful Feeds
How many blog posts start with the words "Sorry I've not been blogging much recently, but I resolve to post more often from now". Such a post may be followed by some actual substance, before the silence re-starts. This is not one of those posts. Ge
Posted: May. 23, 2008 06:59 AM
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Big Question for Sun
It looks from the outside as though every spare resource that Sun has is going into JavaFX. JavaFX may or may not win against Flash/Flex/Air/Silverlight/Android/Ajax, but while Sun is concentrating on FX, it doesn't appear to be giving the Java langu
Posted: May. 19, 2008 07:35 AM

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