Re: [The Java Posse] New website

2013-10-02 Thread Ruben Reusser
Phil, I highly recommend using twitter bootstrap [1] as your base responsive (looks good on mobile) css/js framework (makes a site look pretty even when developers create it) As a CMS, you may want to look into brightspot cms [2]. It's annotation driven hence pretty good for a java developer.

Re: [The Java Posse] is a digital marketing company the place for keen developers?

2011-12-01 Thread Ruben Reusser
just my 2c on the CMS issue: I do like the Adobe ADEP/WEM CMS ( formerly known as Day CQ, find out more at http://www.day.com ) It's resful, apache felix, apache sling and apache jackrabbit based and there is some push to make it connect to a nosql backend for storage. Ruben i feel like i've

Re: [The Java Posse] Dart unveiled

2011-10-11 Thread Ruben Reusser
It seems interesting that dart leaves out all access to files, databases and screens in their library as well as any kind of native access. Seems it's more targeting the client side and not so much the server side of things. I don't really see how one would write a large server side application in

Re: [The Java Posse] Advanced REST - and NO mention of media types?

2011-06-20 Thread Ruben Reusser
After listening to the roundup session, I figured it may be worth having a look at sling [1] and crx [2] for a reference on how to use REST. In short, Sling and it's commercial cousin CRX is a rest framework with script execution on top of a java content repository. The key here is, that this all

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: HTML rendering in Swing

2011-03-01 Thread Ruben Reusser
MozSwing [1] or djproject [2], here's my blogpost about a desktop app built with MozSwing [3] and here's a sample project using djproject [4] and a presentation about the approach (I guess I should call it jAIR or so) [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mozswing/ [2]

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JWebPane, JavaFX2, and HTML5

2010-11-12 Thread Ruben Reusser
why not just use djproject ( http://djproject.sourceforge.net/ns/index.html) to tie into the OS web browser or MozSwing ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/mozswing/ ) to run your locked down version of firefox as a Swing frame? On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:04 PM, hugh4life semwe...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java Desktop is Dead, move along.

2010-10-28 Thread Ruben Reusser
We're currently working on a desktop app using a java backend and an extjs frontend with an embedded browser. It's more of a business app but it seems to work quite well. It looks good out of the box, the components are feature rich and the developers are already familiar with the concepts. The

[The Java Posse] good way to compile java to native code on mac?

2010-10-28 Thread Ruben Reusser
I've been looking at xmlvm to create objectivec code out of the java code we have. Was wondering if there is another alternative on Mac to get your java byte code bundled up - gcj seems to be problematic on mac or am I wrong here? (subject change due to thread hijacking). On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java Desktop is Dead, move along.

2010-10-28 Thread Ruben Reusser
A good approach would also be the DJProject [1] Ruben [1] http://djproject.sourceforge.net/ns/index.html On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Neil Bartlett njbartl...@gmail.com wrote: Very interesting idea. Isn't this basically how Palm's WebOS works? You can already do something quite close to

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java Desktop is Dead, move along.

2010-10-28 Thread Ruben Reusser
the blog post simplifies the approach a bit. We're using EXTGWT as the UI client, so for development purposes it's a Java desktop app running in JavaScript/Java... On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:43 AM, CKoerner chessm...@gmail.com wrote: We're currently working on a desktop app using a java backend

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: latest podcast and how students should learn...

2010-10-25 Thread Ruben Reusser
c64 basic, was to complicated and could not deal with vertical blank interrupts, so I switched to C64 assembler, seemed easier. then to Amiga assembler (I never figured out how somebody could work with intel assembler, motorola rules :) and then I had to switch to the intel world in university and

[The Java Posse] latest podcast and how students should learn...

2010-10-24 Thread Ruben Reusser
It is amazing to me that the universities (at least the one close to our office) does not force the students to learn all about the web while learning how to program. Instead of a system.out.println(hello world); it might be a better idea to just start with a web based application first (small

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The Framework is dead. Long live the CMS.

2010-10-01 Thread Ruben Reusser
I feel the view of any web application can have a great home in a CMS. If done right, they can then all be managed in the CMS, You get a runtime interface to manage the application and change text, move stuff around, etc. You also get a set of frameworks that are bundled as a higher level

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The Framework is dead. Long live the CMS.

2010-10-01 Thread Ruben Reusser
so say you're in maintenance mode of the web site. Now you just created a new page that has a special deal for your hotel on it. If the book now component is in the cms system you can easily add it to the page somewhere and you can activate the new page. change done, no server restart needed. I

[The Java Posse] The Framework is dead. Long live the CMS.

2010-09-30 Thread Ruben Reusser
I saw this post the other day and was wondering what you all think about the approach - and if you have any experience with this approach it would be nice to hear what problems you ran into. There are some great Java CMS's out there one can build on top of too

[The Java Posse] a totally new language

2010-09-07 Thread Ruben Reusser
hi there, now I know you guys like languages a lot and are constantly debating if there is a replacement language for java. The whole discussion has been bugging me for a while and I always thought it would be necessary for a new language to bring something to the table that java does offer but

Re: [The Java Posse] a totally new language

2010-09-07 Thread Ruben Reusser
that supports such things. On 7 September 2010 18:16, Ruben Reusser rube...@gmail.com wrote: hi there, now I know you guys like languages a lot and are constantly debating if there is a replacement language for java. The whole discussion has been bugging me for a while and I always thought

Re: [The Java Posse] a totally new language

2010-09-07 Thread Ruben Reusser
looks like I was not clear enough in that case - the language should be broad, not focusing just on rest. The goal would really be to build a language that promotes writing application building blocks and tying them together - weather it's a desktop application or a web application. The idea is

Re: [The Java Posse] a totally new language

2010-09-07 Thread Ruben Reusser
I'm aware that there is great frameworks around in java to help you do good rest application. Back in the C/C++ time we also had good frameworks to deal with sockets, etc. Still, when thinking back for me at least java was a welcome relieve that such a fundamental function in the new world was

Re: [The Java Posse] Swing LaF / Synth skins

2010-08-22 Thread Ruben Reusser
I would say give http://www.jidesoft.com/ a try - multiple look and feels and a slew of widgtes that make your swing application look like a modern app. My two cents: Oracle should buy that company and have them add all the widgets to swing in the first place... On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:05 PM,

[The Java Posse] www.javaposse.com not working?

2010-06-05 Thread Ruben Reusser
Just noticed that www.javaposse.com does not work (however, javaposse.comis). Ruben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is JavaFX going anywhere?

2010-05-05 Thread Ruben Reusser
I did a small html5 sample the other day to check how good it works. Turns out, it's really hard to do mouse over/hit detection on anything you draw in an HTML5 canvas. And most IE scripts to run the HTML5 Canvas code do not seem to support that functionality. I'd say there is a need of a high

Re: [The Java Posse] Quick poll: how do you feel about JSP?

2010-04-08 Thread Ruben Reusser
I'd give it a 3 It seems most scripting/templating languages for the web follow the same flow as the HTML page - it's great for the designer to developer push of a new layout for a page, however, it does not promote reusability and inheritance out of the box. I'd like to see some templating

Re: [The Java Posse] Book advise about Java Security ?

2010-03-16 Thread Ruben Reusser
you might want to listen in on this free webcast this Thursday and take his class at UCI extension UC IRVINE EXTENSION OFFERS FREE WEBINAR Web Application Security Information Session Event Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:30 - 12:30pm PST/PDT WHO:Neil Matatall,

Re: [The Java Posse] Swing book recommendations

2010-03-04 Thread Ruben Reusser
you might want to consider XUI [1] to be a bit more productive (see for example inforama [2] as a sample app that uses XUI) or JIDE [3] as a base framework. I know you're looking for books about swing but it is my opinion to use a basic framework to augment swing that allows you to really be

Re: [The Java Posse] Developer or Programmer?

2009-11-24 Thread Ruben Reusser
): Programmer/Analyst = Developer. I'm glad I'm not in HR. The Java API space is easier to navigate than this. Well not really... Brian -- -- Ruben Reusser -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send

[The Java Posse] Re: JCheckBoxTree

2009-10-06 Thread Ruben Reusser
I really like the components from jide [1] - depending on your project it's a quick way to get a richer set of swing components into your project (including jtrees with checkboxes). Ruben [1] http://www.jidesoft.com/ On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Shooter kwilson4...@gmail.com wrote: Does

[The Java Posse] Re: The Top 3 Java based web frameworks

2009-09-29 Thread Ruben Reusser
:* Ruben Reusser rube...@gmail.com *To:* javaposse@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Monday, September 28, 2009 7:58:01 PM *Subject:* [The Java Posse] Re: The Top 3 Java based web frameworks how so? Last time I checked it was pretty hard to make a GWT app look good (unless you go with GWTEXT and that one uses

[The Java Posse] Re: The Top 3 Java based web frameworks

2009-09-28 Thread Ruben Reusser
I'd really love to see a java web framework that promotes writing reusable components for the web, makes it easy to merge those components into an application and comes with a component marketplace. Has anybody seen a framework that's good at doing this? (and it would be great if everything looks

[The Java Posse] Re: Web UI testing framework for Internet Explorer

2009-09-15 Thread Ruben Reusser
but it requires more effort. It is 100% Javascript and you just have to work harder to make it play nice. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Ruben Reusser rube...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, we have to build a test suite that tests an existing web application - the application only runs in IE and I was wondering

[The Java Posse] Re: VMWare buys SpringSource - thoughts?

2009-08-10 Thread Ruben Reusser
maybe it makes sense with their tcServer product suite - managing tomcat farms http://www.springsource.com/products/tcserver On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Josh Long starbux...@gmail.com wrote: VMWare buys SpringSource - thoughts? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[The Java Posse] Re: aop flames

2009-07-23 Thread Ruben Reusser
hey there On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Mikael Sundberg mikael.sundber...@gmail.com wrote: Another time there was suddenly a requirement for logging all method calls and return values, once again... 3-4lines of aop. how could any of that have been done without AOP? Isn't it that most

[The Java Posse] Re: What would make you switch to a new language?

2009-06-30 Thread Ruben Reusser
In some way Java will be to its next language what C was to Java: something you can call, but you need to be very careful. If we assume that the new language runs on a JVM, then you should at least not have the platform-dependency issues, but in terms of making assertions about concurrency

[The Java Posse] What would make you switch to a new language?

2009-06-29 Thread Ruben Reusser
hi there, I always felt the compelling reason to switch from C/C++ to java was that there was a good set of libraries that came with java making my life easier to develop web application and break from the cgi scripts - Java had a good looking socket library that was easy to understand, nice file

[The Java Posse] Re: What would make you switch to a new language?

2009-06-29 Thread Ruben Reusser
) - A hybrid type system (dynamic when you need, static when you can) - Runtime interoperability - Less is more For those reasons, I find Fan extremely interesting. /Casper On 29 Jun., 18:27, Viktor Klang viktor.kl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Ruben Reusser rube

[The Java Posse] Re: What would make you switch to a new language?

2009-06-29 Thread Ruben Reusser
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: Well my problem with configuration as found on the Java stack is fairly generic and relates both to the lack of expressiveness as well as the tendency to solve the same problem in many different ways yet no real

[The Java Posse] Re: Help deciding on a design blog name

2009-06-10 Thread Ruben Reusser
functionaluiart.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[The Java Posse] Re: Why is there no episode 255?

2009-06-09 Thread Ruben Reusser
podcast was number #0x100, while the one before was episode 254. What happened to episode 255? -- Ruben Reusser headwire.com, Inc 949 595 4365 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaOne keynotes suck

2009-06-04 Thread Ruben Reusser
that means is you haven't done an adequate job of preparation and rehearsal. That might be forgivable in your bi-weekly iteration demo, but a conference keynote? Come on. Get your sh*t together. -- Ruben Reusser headwire.com, Inc 949 595 4365

[The Java Posse] Re: Live Keynotes of JavaOne?

2009-06-02 Thread Ruben Reusser
348.150.6941 -- Ruben Reusser headwire.com, Inc 949 595 4365 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[The Java Posse] Re: Live Keynotes of JavaOne?

2009-06-02 Thread Ruben Reusser
did they by any chance give an URL? On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: Ruben Reusser wrote: I was able to see the cast - however, did I miss the announcement of the java store? Is that going to be later? It was announced and shortly

[The Java Posse] 254 and Java/Microsoft Web Services Integration

2009-05-31 Thread Ruben Reusser
just my 2c about the MS and Java Web Services integration - in a recent project (after failing using the supposed to be working integration) we started using IKVM (Java VM on .NET) [1] to run a java layer on top of .Net to bind our java client against a java server layer that communicates with the

[The Java Posse] JavaOne JavaPosseTalk...

2009-05-28 Thread Ruben Reusser
quick question: when is the javaposse session at JavaOne and does one really have to buy the 4 day pass to go see it (I know it's worth it but...) or is there another way to attend? Thanks Ruben --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[The Java Posse] Re: Object vs Relational DB

2009-05-16 Thread Ruben Reusser
? -- Ruben Reusser headwire.com, Inc 949 595 4365 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[The Java Posse] Re: When will JavaFX be ready to replace Swing?

2009-04-29 Thread Ruben Reusser
a release schedule or anything that hints at the next version on the official pages. Does anyone here know maybe? -- Ruben Reusser headwire.com, Inc 949 595 4365 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[The Java Posse] Re: Add a programming quiz to the job advertisement?

2009-04-02 Thread Ruben Reusser
advertisement?** Why / Why not? I already posted this question on stackoverflow.com, right here: http://tinyurl.com/dlsexz regards, Tim -- Viktor Klang Senior Systems Analyst -- Ruben Reusser headwire.com, Inc 949 595 4365

[The Java Posse] Re: I forgot: Win $25,000 coding JavaFX, and a book. :)

2009-03-25 Thread Ruben Reusser
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[The Java Posse] Re: IBM in talks to buy Sun?

2009-03-19 Thread Ruben Reusser
on -- Ruben Reusser headwire.com, Inc 949 595 4365 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[The Java Posse] Re: a good calendar wabapp to install in-house?

2009-01-20 Thread Ruben Reusser
. The thing is, we got some old crappy software stack on out intranet server. A wiki, a calendar and a bugtracker. For the wiki and the bugtracker we found a lot of good alternatives (mediawiki, moinmoin, jira, bugzilla), but not for the calendar. regards, Tim -- Ruben Reusser

[The Java Posse] Re: why doesn't java allocate memory as needed (max heap size)

2009-01-02 Thread Ruben Reusser
yes, I meant heap size - -Xmx is limiting the heap size but not the mmapped memory - to me it becomes a discussion about how many objects a java app can have at the same time and at what count of objects you might want to reconsider your design approach as well as do we really need to store

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-21 Thread Ruben Reusser
I'm not sure if the concise way to write code is enough to actually get a large set of people to switch from one programming language to another. When java came along it provided a solution to me for my main problems in my programming life: I need a set of good API's that provide me with an easy

[The Java Posse] Re: T-Mobile G1 Google phone

2008-09-25 Thread Ruben Reusser
. -- Ruben Reusser headwire.com, Inc 949 595 4365 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

[The Java Posse] Re: What CMS are people actually using?

2008-09-24 Thread Ruben Reusser
:14 am, Ruben Reusser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? there is no good java CMS? You are actually suggesting to usa a PHP CMS? How about Alfresco, Magnmolia, Day Communique? All bad? Ruben On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd have to agree. I used to work

[The Java Posse] Re: What CMS are people actually using?

2008-09-23 Thread Ruben Reusser
have to deal with it from time to time), and I *hated* it. We prefer to refer to the CMS as Bugumentum. On Sep 23, 5:44 am, marvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have yet to see a CMS that doesn't suck. Java or non Java. /Markus On 18 Sep, 18:13, Ruben Reusser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[The Java Posse] Re: Choosing wide scale set of web Java client/server technologies

2008-09-21 Thread Ruben Reusser
) to a load balanced server (possibly using GWT, otherwise doing serious development in JavaScript natively). Constructive ridicule welcome! Alan -- Ruben Reusser headwire.com, Inc 949 595 4365 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you