Need to present some tablular data sources from a backend datasource and looking for a slick and painless cross-browser solution? You should definitely take a look at the YUI Datatable. I’ve been using it on one of our internal projects where we need to present a large amount of tabular data, but let the client sort it as they need to. Our first draft has given us something like this: One of the things I [...]

I really have to take a rest from this book review business, but I’ve been buying heaps of books through Tech Books Deal of the Day, and this title has been very useful for one of my current bits of client work. First of all, Beginning Java EE6 with Glassfish 3 came at a time when one of our clients requested we implement some JPA2 infrastructure (around EJB3) for them to store some JAXB objects [...]

The guys over at Packt Press sent us a free copy of Groovy for Domain Specific Languages to review for the Grails Podcast. We’ll talk about it in an upcoming show, but I promised the publisher I’d post some thoughts on my blog, so here we are. First, I’m super excited that there is now a title dedicated purely to Groovy DSLs. Every time I hear Guillaume or Paul talk about DSLs I get swamped [...]