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Struts 2 and JSTL EL Quirk
This is quite an odd one. Struts 2 comes with it’s own tag library for accessing properties of actions but I thought it would be interesting to see if you can access it via JSTL EL instead. In the...
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Guicing Struts 2
Look how deceptively easy the Guice User Manual makes adding Guice to a Struts 2 app appear. Look, it says, just add one jar and all your dependency injection needs will be meet. Of course what it...
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The Pain of Rails
There are a lot of cool applications written in Rails but I often find that the configuration and setup is such a pain that you quickly lose the desire to run them. There’s only so much moaning about...
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Towards Groovier Projects
My latest project has witnessed an influx of Groovy. The project buildfile is run by Gant, there are Groovlets providing lightweight pages but it is in the test folders that the Groovy has made its...
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The death of MVC
The MVC pattern is so embedded into the concept of modern web development I feel quite the heretic for declaring it over. Yet more and more I think we are moving away from it as a pattern. Views have...
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String Templates, or what I learned from Python and doing nothing
It’s an ill wind that blows no-one any good. The same is true of projects (although money generally helps more here; it’s an ill project that is making no-one any money). I’m currently meant to be...
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Django in 24 hours
Last Saturday afternoon I decided to learn Django. It was 2pm on the first day of SiCamp 2008 in London and being the only developer in the room at that point I decided that I should do whatever I felt...
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Good magic, bad magic
Philip Potter pinged me his post on Sinatra magic during the week. Mark Needham’s comment and code on solving the mocking problem is good advice to the problem as posed. At Wazoku where we use the...
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