Category Archives: ajax

Grails templating & Ajax

Posted on August 24, 2007 by peter

Grails’ templating system is cool. There is no doubt about it. It’s what I wanted JSP2.0 tagfiles to be. In essence they’re not so different from tagfiles in practice their versatility is a fair bit higher. Templates in Grails reside … Continue reading →

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Yahoo pipes… programming made ‘easy’?

Posted on February 11, 2007 by peter

Occasionally when some non-programmer sees program builders like code generating UML tools or, in this case Yahoo’s new pipes service, they start making jokes about how developers are going to unnecessary in the future. Normally I would just forget about … Continue reading →

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DWR now sponsored by Tibco

Posted on January 11, 2007 by peter

Today Tibco and DWR announced the sponsorship of TIBCO of Joe Walker’s popular DWR (direct web remoting / ajax) library; from now on TIBCO’ll be sponsoring the project and they’ll start working on ‘popularizing’ TIBCO GI by proving an easier … Continue reading →

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DWR Call batching

Posted on August 30, 2006 by peter

To reduce load on my current project I had a look into reducing the number of requests fired at the application server. Many pages in the application trigger multiple DWR calls resulting in Tomcat generating heavy load on the servers. … Continue reading →

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Javascript compression filter

Posted on August 18, 2006 by peter

Yesterday a colleague asked me whether it is possible to automate compression of javascript code in a web application (the current project has a total of about 150kb of javascript for some of the pages). I decided to look into … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Backbase @ Amis

Posted on May 3, 2006 by peter

Yesterday I attended the Backbase introduction at Amis. The fist part of the introduction was focussed at introducing the croud to web 2.0 buzzwords like RIA (= rich internet application), AJAX (asynchronous javascript and xml) en SPI (single page interface). … Continue reading →

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DWR 2.0 (ms 1) with ‘reverse ajax’ released

Posted on April 11, 2006 by peter

Today the DWR project has released version 2.0 milestone 1. The releasenotes claim the most import new feature is ‘reverse ajax’: The biggest new feature is what we call Reverse Ajax. DWR 1.x allowed you to asynchronously call Java code … Continue reading →

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