CoffeeKup allows to render HTML from multiple sources: * A String containing valid CoffeeScript code * A JavaScript/CoffeeScript object arranged according to CoffeeKup rules To render HTML from a String is quite straightforward and documented on the CoffeeeScript reference: you can use the methods .compile and .render as documented there. However,
It is no secret that in order to be more productive in software development, it is good to know the keyboard shortcuts of the IDE or editor of your choice. Using the keyboard is an inevitable part of software development and many other tasks we do at a computer, the
Problem You would like to obtain statistics about how often the mouse is used on a Linux machine. Solution Linux logs all activity of input devices (such as mouse and keyboard) into various device files under /dev/input/*. Mouse activities, in particular, are logged in /dev/input/mice (this logs
gwt
Problem The built in Java Serialization and various serialization frameworks available for Java allow to serialize Java objects conveniently into binary or textual representations. Unfortunately, most of these frameworks are not available for Google Web Toolkit client applications. There is no easily available built in solution for serializing GWT objects
puppet
The Problem Puppet allows deploying a structure of directories and files conveniently using the file resource. Using the attributes 'source => …' and 'recurse => true', it is possible to create a copy of a set of files stored in the puppet module on target servers. Unfortunately,
netty
SSL is unquestionably a very useful and powerful technology to make systems more secure. Java in general and Netty in specific provide strong out-of-box support for supporting SSL encryption and authentication. However, since SSL is a complex technology it can often be cumbersome and difficult to set it up correctly.
jquery
Problem One of the most common things I do with JQuery is to attach click event listeners to buttons, links and other elements as follows: $(".class").click(function(evt) {}); Unfortunately, I found that, while this approach works well for Desktop browsers, the user interaction on touch-enabled devices feels
gwt
GWT RPC is a great technology for sending 'Java' objects from a Java sever to a JavaScript client and vice averse. Since GWT RPC provides facilities for serializing and deseralizing Java objects, it seems like a good option, too, for preparing objects to be stored in a browsers
Background Skills are in demand. Presentation skills, communication skills, leadership skills! Without a doubt, you cannot have enough of these. Unfortunately, we often forget about the little and less-glamorous skills, which underlie these high-value skills. Spelling? Grammar? Typing? What small-minded people would care about these? I didn't until
Appjangle has long supported Desktop Java, Android and JavaScript applications. However, with the most recent releases of client libraries (0.2.0 and 0.2.1) client libraries with more dedicated support for the Android and Desktop Java platform have been made available. Specifically, while before both Android and Desktop
Background Word is evil, is it not? Shouldn't we be converting files away from Microsoft's vile format into the open web world of Google Docs? Maybe so. But is Google Docs really that open? How many applications are there which allow us to VIEW and EDIT
review
Do you want to see the future of book publishing? 'Discover Meteor' is an interactive book recently released by Tom Coleman and Sacha Greif about the Meteor JavaScript framework. And it's a book as dynamic as the framework it describes. In this post, I provide a