June 30th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, web
Firefox 3.5 has been released. Not everybody is excited about this release, but most reviews are quite positive. In my opinion, the enhanced javascript performance is the most important improvement, but features like the html 5 video and audio tags, offline support, @font-face, geolocation support and cross site XHR are not to be underestimated.
As far [...]
June 26th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, soa, web
Here’s a quick example how you can build a RESTfull Grails application and deploy it to Google App Engine. For this example you need Grails 1.1.1 and GAE SDK for Java version 1.2.1.
I’m going to create a small service which will return a wind forecast. The forecast data is hardcoded as this is just some [...]
June 26th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
Must read follow-up on Web 2.0: Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On.
One aspect stressed in this article is the importance of mobile phones. Not just as a means to use the internet while on the move, but more importantly, as a way to collect data.