Regular Expression: Negative Lookahead
People understand instinctively that the best way for computer programs to communicate with each other is for each of the them to be strict in what they emi...
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Democratic Product Management
In 2007, Dell launched their IdeaStorm site. It was the first example I had seen of a website where users can go to vote on features. From their FAQ:
SOAP vs. REST from a consumer’s perspective
When implementing web-services, the two most popular paradigms are SOAP and REST. Prior to REST becoming a formal standard (though it's still very loose), ma...
getResource() resource patterns
The Java class loader contains a convenience method getResource(), which is great for externalizing some static content from your code. In the past, I've use...
First AWK script
I have been aware of AWK as a "general purpose programming language that is designed for processing text-based data" since college. But until today I never s...
Using JAXB without a schema
A Yahoo HotJobs API project has been my first exposure to REST APIs. Usually, I'm working with SOAP web-services. Bullhorn is actually thinking about trying ...
ColdFusion JSON Exception Handling
When calling a ColdFusion end-point from an Ajax call, the caller is expecting a certain format. In my projects, that's usually JSON. Regardless, it would be...
Using a local copy of a WSDL with JAX-WS
By default when JAX-WS auto-generates a proxy stub via wsimport, it will reference the live web version of the WSDL in the stub definition. This means that w...
RPC/Encoded web services on Java 1.6
Usually, when I want to call a remote web-service in Java, I would generate stub proxy classes at the command line with:
Ajax grid performance in IE
Generating a grid (table) view from the results of an Ajax call is a common Web 2.0 use case. But performance can be an issue, especially on IE7.