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JQuery: keeping your site-state in the addressbar

More and more sites are doing it. Keeping their state in the address bar of the browser, enabling AJAX driven dynamic html pages to use the back and forward buttons between javascript driven views. The most common website that uses this functionality, that I know of, is GMail. If you

ClickOnce

RemoteX Application Clients now work on 64-bit

As a result of the recent changes to the ClickOnce deployment of RemoteX Applications [https://www.morten.software/2009/05/27/changing-the-platform-of-clickonce-deployed-applications-breaks-automatic-upgrade/] . All clients now work on 64-bit operatingsystems. Verified on Windows Server 2008 and Vista.

Ajax

IETester

I found a new tool for testing web-applications in IE today. It’s called IETester [http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage], and it allows me to test IE versions 5.5 to 8 in the same application. Which is great, since my Vista machine only runs 8 normally. I

Grails

Important Announcement on Morph AppSpace

I just received an email with the this subject. It basically states that Morph will be shutting down AppSpace to focus on their new configurable service model, Morph AppCloud. If this is true then developer subscriptions will be shutdown as of the 6th of June. I had this confirmed on

ClickOnce

Changing the platform of ClickOnce deployed applications breaks automatic upgrade

I wrote earlier about and issue with ClickOnce Deployment, where the processor of the deployment manifests need to match the processor the application is compiled for [https://www.morten.software/2009/05/20/the-customhostspecified-attribute-is-not-supported-for-windows-forms-applications/] . Naturally of course, it turns out we need to compile for a specific platform. By compiling

C#

Funny piece of C# code I found today

Today I found this piece of code in an integration to RemoteX Application. switch (ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UsePriority"]) { case "false": switch (... ) { case true: log.Write ... break; case false: log.Write ... break; }; break; case "true": switch (... ) { case true: log.Write ... break;

Software

Source control folder anti-pattern

I ran into this issue at work today. Another team depends on my teams code to create customer specific solutions. Now they have an issue where they have to keep track of which versions are currently in use, and produce software for the different solutions. Now I have issues with

ClickOnce

Updating ClickOnce deployment manifest with PowerShell

We are automating some of our deployment using powershell. As such we use the command line tool mage.exe for signing our deployment manifests, in effect were creating them using mage.exe as well. We needed to add the trustUrlParamter setting to one of our manifests. Using mageui.exe you

ClickOnce

The customHostSpecified attribute is not supported for Windows Forms applications.

Last night we worked on ClickOnce deploying an application. The application is a connector between two standard systems, one for economics and the other is RemoteX Applications. In essence it means that our customers will be able to update their integration with the economic system by ClickOnce. It is an

Grails

Grails: UIPerformance update

I posted a post a while back about encoding issues using the Grails UIPerformance plugin [https://www.morten.software/2009/04/13/grails-ui-performance-plugin-issue-with-encodings/]. The issue will be resolved in version 1.1.1 of the UIPerformance plugin.

SCRUM

Sprint startup

A while back we started with one-week sprints. For several reasons. We had four-week sprints earlier, but sometimes it was unclear what we were supposed to deliver and what we delivered. Today we started our third one-week sprint. The start-up meeting took 20 minutes, and was a stand up meeting.

Grails

Grails: Cutom Url-mappings not working

I ran into another problem with Grails just now. I’m starting to separate the REST implementation of my service. I wanted to keep the default generated behaviour of the Grails views, at least for now. But the interaction of the web-application is foremost using the REST api. Thus I

Grails

Grails: Quicksheet

I just stumbled on the Grails cheatsheet [http://docs.codehaus.org/download/attachments/40788/grailsqr-1.1.0.pdf]. If you haven’t checked it out, I can recommend it. I wanted a list of available constraints, and this gives me fast access to just that and lots more.

Grails

Grails: Morph-deploy and the Mail plugin

Ive just spent a few hours configuring the mail plugin and the morph-deploy plugin, based on the forum and blog posts around the net. Only to find out that there was no need. The morph-deploy plugin version 0.1 along with Grails 1.1 and mail 0.5 works perfectly

Grails

Grails: Working with the mail plugin

I just started working with the mail plugin. The idea is to finish the user registration scenario that Ive been working on. Now working with the mail plugin in development requires me to have a SMTP server running locally. I’m not really Interested in a real one, instead I

TFS

Rollback and undo checkin in TFS

I keep forgetting this option in the team system powertools [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb980963.aspx]. The rollback command undoes all change sets to a specific point, this is done by reverting the changes. That is it checks out the files and changes them to specified version, deletes

Ajax

Grails: Jetty and Character-encoding

Im doing something not supported. I’m serving html files through my Grails web-app running Jetty. Simply I have some static pages that will not change. I want them served uncompiled. I use the resources-first plugin to help out with serving these html files. The files are documentation, responses if

Architecture

Refactoring how to open views

We had a problem in RemoteX applications, not a big one, but an old structure that had to be refactored. Our open method only accepted URIs as arguments. This forced most of our commands that create new entities, to first save an empty new version of the entity to make

Architecture

Performance monitoring of a deployed application

I had an idea today while working with a performance issue on the REST-service of RemoteX Applications. In theory having a performance counter with the average execution time of SQL-queries over time. Will allow monitoring of system wide average cost for queries in the system. That means that overtime its

Grails

Grails: UI-Performance plugin - issue with encodings

After getting the UI-performance plugin to work, I started to address an issue I got with charsets and my js files. I have some Swedish messages in some of my JavaScript files, and as such they have Swedish characters. While I was branching them I managed to change the charset

Grails

Grails: UI-performance plugin

I installed the UI-performance plugin [http://www.grails.org/plugin/ui-performance] last night. Configured it to bundle my javascript code into a single compressed file. Did the same with my CSS files. With everything bundled and compressed the size of the the page download is reduced from 485 Kb to

Grails

Grails: Issue with Morph Deploy plugin

I ran into a problem with Grails again, this time its with the Morph deploy plugin. It turns out its nothing special. The problem I ran into was the following error when I created my war-file for the application. Error executing script War: No such property: stagingDir for class: _Events

Ajax

Grails: Ajax Login using Basic Auth

So I have my Grails environment setup. The point is to build a REST-service that will work as a back end to a highly dynamic JavaScript page. I chose Grails, since it builds on Hibernate and Spring. Two frameworks Id like to examine for the purpose of seeing the differences

Grails

Grails: Error starting Sun's native2ascii

More issues with Grails. The environment seemed to be working, but once I start compiling and generating all the files. I ran into more issues. When running the grails war to generate a war to deploy to Mor.ph I go the following error. This error also occurs for the

Grails

Errors when setting up grails

I’m looking at Grails to explore how others set up REST architectures. Grails have built in support for REST using Hibernate and Spring. As such it seemed like an interesting development style to examine. Hibernate and nHibernate have similarities and Spring seems to be an interesting IoC framework. But