jQuery is a good thing. It allows you to minimise the amount of Javascript you write, while maintaining elegance and ease-of-use. jQuery.com has recently relaunched with a brand-new design. Feedback from around the web was initially quite negative due to a bizarre decision by someone who thought it’d be great to apply a ‘rockstar’ ethos […]
Some time ago, I began hacking away at a simple API (Application Programming Interface) for Eternal Lands written in Python. I intended to write something that was quick and concise, and that would be easy to reuse. Using a typical OO approach, I finally came up with ‘Pyela - Python Eternal Lands API’.
Pyela is an […]
The latest project at work is using a service tier setup. We have the web front-end that’s using Struts 1.2 (yes, old!), Weblogic 9.2, Apache Axis 1.3, JSON & jQuery. The back-end web services are written in .Net (and how difficult it seems to be for developers to work in .Net). Things at least work, […]
Note: This title is provocative. I don’t actually believe Java’s obsolete (in fact I think the opposite). This post does show some pitfalls in Java and why I prefer Python.
I’ve been a professional programmer for over three years now. I have worked on projects both large and small, ranging from Java Web Services to Perl-CGI, […]