Software Development

Commerce sites demand speed, quality, and budget flexibility - pick two, but compromise intentionally.

Best practices guide for ATG development: starting assumptions, roles, processes, and quality delivery.

GWT In Practice delivers practical guidance for building advanced web UIs - and includes a real author endorsement.

HowGoodIWas beta lets ex-athletes reconnect, share memories, and relive competitive glory through social media.

ATG RSS Feed Droplet now supports configurable character encodings - reformatting breaks feeds, so beware.

Russell Moore figured out how to add upload image functionality to the ATG Commerce Center for custom binary properties.

RichFaces modal panels break in IE6 when using s:graphicImage - use a Servlet workaround instead.

Seam's Home object design pattern solves LazyInitializationException and entity manager scope issues.

Real IP addresses hide behind load balancers and proxies - use X-FORWARDED-FOR and the ProxyIPFixer servlet.

Apache proxy blocks RichFaces JavaScript - the ContextRoot/a4j path needs direct access, not load balanced.

Better Java image resizing for thumbnails - higher quality output with improved code based on feedback.

That convenient login redirect? It kills conversations. Here's why and how to fix it.

Oracle exp/imp inflates table sizes - INITIAL extent settings preserve old dimensions even after shrinking.

Drop all Oracle tables easily - generate a SQL script from querying user_tables, then execute it.

Automated image resize, thumbnail generation, and format standardization in Java - the practical way.

Let's say that when a user clicks on something, perhaps selecting something from a DataTable or DataGrid, you want to call some server side code, and then popup a modal panel which needs to show content based on the new state setup by your server side call. In my case I have a DataGrid showing a number of items, and when a user clicks on an item I want to set the current selected item on a Seam component on the server, and then popup a modal panel to display detailed information about the item, and provide the user some actions within the modal panel.

RichFaces wrecks Safari. One config line stops the crashes cold.

Open-source ATG modules for caching, encryption, captcha, and more - ready to integrate.

Batch-updated 1.7 million password hashes? PL/SQL loops with checkpoints beat direct mutations.

Manage cache headers by MIME type and URI pattern in ATG without custom servlet filters.