Http1.0 on firefox
To force Firefox on http 1.0 proceed as follows: Open a window and go to “about:config” page Hack “network.http.version” property restart firefox
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Closure in Java: fast and nice!
Working for two very important Banks, I have the need to play with Closure in Java. I have a lot of trouble looking at a good description of the subject, until I read a post on StackOverflow. I have decided to re-cook this subject, adding a my specialized Example also. Let’s start!
Nested Tag Library for struts 1.x
Example: http://www.laliluna.de/struts-nested-iteration-tutorial.html Reference http://struts.apache.org/1.3.10/struts-taglib/dev_nested.html
Erlang Book Review
After reading an interesting article on Erlang and Java interoperability, I have decided to dedicate my spare time to Erlang. O’Reilly has just published a wonderful book on Erlang, so I decided to dive into it.
Evolving concurrency, like memory management did
As processors become faster and multiprocessor systems become cheaper, the need to take advantage of multithreading in order to achieve full hardware resource utilization only increases the importance of being able to incorporate concurrency in a wide variety of application categories. In this article we are evaluting a new approach to the concurrency. In the …
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Java HttpClient and Load Balancer bad interactions
Working for a very big customer, I found a very nasty interaction between Sun HttpClient (JDK 1.4) and Http Load Balancers. In a complex network environment, sometimes you can experience low level TCP/IP comunication errors, because sometimes HttpClient get confused and hangs. The bad behavior of Sun HttpClient is well known: some guys suggested me …
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Javascript and Smalltalk
There is a future for SmallTalk? I was a very strong fan of the SmallTalk language, but in the last five years I have seen more and more contraction of its usage in the IT field. The OLPC project, which uses also Squeak Smalltalk and its done by the core team fo Squeak, is not …
Dynamic languages troubles
I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.
In the article pointed out, the quite dead Chandler project is compared to the multi-billion Eclipse project. And then a too easy analysis is done against dynamic languages, where Java is the absolute winner.
I will try to fix some of the things said there, and to add also my two cents here :)
Will Zend slash rubyonrails?
Let the Zend Framework introduce itself as a Borg would do: "Hi dear RubyOnRails. Hi all. I am the Zend Framework, a small work (about 5 tons of code) done by IBM and Zend to destroy you. You think php is not able to build big project?… do you? So you have dared to develop …
Advanced Bash Scripting
Is it amazing things you can do with a simple Bourne Again Shell (bash). I have just discovered you can open socket using a small redirection syntax, and emulate small checks you normally do with curl or wget. The bash shell manual is always poor about examples, and this is very very sad. In my …
Java Session Fancy Printing
public static final String convertToString(HttpServletRequest request) { StringBuffer msg = new StringBuffer(); try { msg.append("*RequestURI:" + request.getRequestURI() + "\n"); msg.append("*ContentType:" + request.getContentType() + "\n"); msg.append("== Request Header\n"); Enumeration headers = request.getHeaderNames(); while (headers.hasMoreElements()) { String headerName = "" + headers.nextElement(); msg.append(headerName + ":" + request.getHeader(headerName) + "\n"); } msg.append("\n"); Enumeration attr …
Stendere la Biancheria
Ciao cari singles. Come avrete notato nella vostra eterna lotta tra il tornare da mamma' e andare a convivere dal partner, qualche volta si sta meglio per i fatti propri. Ma come fare a gestire la biancheria in questi casi? Ebbene il vostro mentore (cioè io) ha la soluzione.