Working for a very big customer, I found a very nasty interaction between Sun HttpClient (JDK 1.4) and Http  Load Balancers.

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Often Customers require a way of ordering columns of small html table. This JQuery plugin offer a fast, and nice solution:

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At Gioorgi.com we have used plenty of web frameworks.

Giovanni Giorgi used Seaside,  a lot of PHP frameworks, Java Struts, RubyOnRails, and Python Django.

We have started to look for Web2Py, a compact,  easy to learn  python web framework.

From the most notable feature, it runs also on Google App Engine. Written by an Italian University professor for teaching web development, spots a very clean design, and a robust security infrastructure. We  suggest it because installation (and upgrading) is a snap.

Let's take a look to it...

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This magic CSS code is able to change the orientation of the printed page:

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Testing is important.

Testing web interfaces is difficult, and often your consultant company prefer to suggest you a manual-based testing. But is it so difficult to do automatic web testing using open source software?

Let's give a look to two nice web testing software

Warning: this article is still in progress: it has been published for getting comments all around.

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Django Project, a powerful and clean Python Web Framework, is going to relase 1.2 as  the next milestone at the beginning of March. For the meanwhile, you can grab the Beta2:

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Do you want develop web applications in a fast, prototype based way using Python?

Follow us and learn how to use web2py....

Step 1: Python 2.6 proper setup

On Linux be sure to install sqlite development library; the following command will help on RedHat:

sudo apt-get install sqlite-devel

for the yum variant see here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233320/cannot-import-sqlite-with-python-2-6

Install python 2.6, this will avoid the need of additional libraries.

You will also need openssl, so if you haven't  it issue commands like

sudo apt-get install openssl

and be sure to get also the python wrapper pyOpenSSL hosted here

We happly compiled pyOpenSSL from sources

For more tips and tricks look also at this recipe about Apache Setup, if you need it.

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XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.

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Non amo lamentarmi. Non mi piace lamentarmi su Gioorgi.com: lo fa apparire un sito asfittico e limitato, invece che una raccolta articolata di idee ed opinioni. Ma la pessima realizzazione di iOS4 grida vendetta!

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Volete utilizzare il tag canvas di html5 anche su IE6 ed IE8?

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