Google Gears: Walk Away With The Database

Does Google Gears expose your data to desktop security problems?

Google just kicked off another new product to offer offline web applications. There’s a simple plugin that’s available as a free download under a BSD license. It works for:

Firefox IE Safari (almost!)

(With Safari it works if you build Safari’s webkit from source.)

As [...]

First Sacramento Ruby User Group Meeting

May 23rd from 6:30-9:00pm the first Sacramento Ruby User Group Meeting was held at the Invision Design and Development offices in Old Sacramento. In attendance:

Ryan – a full time Rails developer with Invision. Layton – a Rails developer. Tom Mornini – CTO of EngineYard. Ed Gibbs – author of this blog.

No planned agenda. [...]

Deploying Rails to Tomcat as a WAR with JRuby

Assumptions

You are experienced with Java and have at least dabbled around with Ruby on Rails. These steps worked for me on a Mac OS X 1.0.4.9 system I’ve walked through the steps 3 times from scratch, but your mileage may still vary.

Install and Configure JRuby

First step download install JRuby. You [...]

Planning A Move with Scrum

JSF to Focus on Ease of Development Without Tools for 2.0

When we started Faces 1.0 it was very important for us to work with tools, that’s where a lot of our focus was. But now, we really want to focus on ease of development without tools.

- Roger Kitain – Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems – Talk at Javapolis on Dynamic Applications With Faces and AJAX

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