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Editor - who has written 18 posts on kallasoft.
Riyad has participated in the software industry in Open Source, research and commercial software design and development both professionally and as a hobby. Riyad leads the Product Services team for a industry leading tech company out of Dallas, writes software in his spare time and most importantly hopes the information here helps developers out there.
Sneak Peak at KDE 4.2
polishlinux.org has put together a great sneak-peak at the current incarnation of what will become KDE 4.2 directly from the SVN repo. Overall 4.2 is looking to be a natural evolution to 4.1, which was a surprising leap over 4.0 from a user’s perspective given how disappointingly 4.0 was received from the end-user community (4.0 laid [...]
Continue reading...What’s the Best Way to Handle Exceptions?
Friday, October 3, 2008
It seems, given my limited experience, that handling exceptions depends entirely on the context in which you are developing. As a fan of “rules” that can be applied to different scenarios I wanted to hit you guys up and see what the rules-of-thumb were with regards to exception handling. Some approaches to exception handling sort of [...]
Continue reading...Sun, IBM and Microsoft Host Workshop to Combine VM Efforts
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Sun recently held a 3-day workshop where technical leads and directors from IBM and Microsoft were invited to join together at the Sun campus to try and work on consolidating Virtual Machine efforts going forward; more specifically focused on developing solutions that would yield Java-like performance for Ruby, Python, PHP, and Scala on the JVM. No [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Releases Developer API, Surprisingly Powerful
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Netflix released it’s long-awaited developer API yesterday (JavaScript, REST) and to a lot of people’s surprise, was quite a bit more open-ended than expected: We’re pleased to announce the availability of the Netflix API. The team has been hard at work on this and we’re glad we can finally let people see what we’ve built. The [...]
Continue reading...Android’s Unlock Screen is a Level of Security
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Google’s Android mobile platform has a pretty interesting approach to the unlock screen that makes it more than just a simple way to avoid hitting buttons in your pocket. Android’s unlock screen actually introduces a new level of security to the device that didn’t previously exist on mobile phones without introducing an annoying new system [...]
Continue reading...ASP.NET rnd() Function is a Slippery Devil!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Sometimes software development can be hard; API docs can be incomplete, maybe the source isn’t very straight forward or you just aren’t seeing the result you expect. What can make that even worse is on days when you are tired and overlook a detail multiple times that would point you in the right direction… then [...]
Continue reading...Google’s Chrome Browser Process Model Explained
Friday, September 5, 2008
Marc Chung has posted an in-depth analysis of Google’sChrome Browser process model. Why this is interesting is because the new process model in Chrome is one of the most powerful aspects of the browser, allowing it to render JavaScript-heavy web applications much faster without blocking the entire browser process hung in a render loop (something [...]
Continue reading...CSS Slicing Guide and XHTML/CSS Page Design Guide
Thursday, August 14, 2008
When I first got into web development, the new layout craze for websites was “table layouts”. The idea that you could slide and organize everything in a grid (using <table> tags) was a godsend for designers. All you had to do was learn how to “slice” your Photoshop mockup into the appropriate squares and they [...]
Continue reading...Using ‘resources’ path in Wicket Causes Problems Loading CSS, Images and JavaScript
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Bah… 3 hours worth of debugging and finally figured out what was going on with this issue in Wicket and wnated to share this with any other developers out there that might be running into this. Issue I typically create a /resources directory under the root of any web app I’m working on where I places CSS, [...]
Continue reading...Using Apache Virtual Hosts and ProxyPass Together
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
I recently ran into a situation where I had a server with Apache on it that was already hosting a few PHP sites using VirtualHost mappings, but I now wanted to add a new Tomcat-hosted site to the same machine. In a way, what I wanted was to setup a new VirtualHost entry on Apache to [...]
Continue reading...SmugMug Java API - Beta 5 Released
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Beta 5 of the kallasoft SmugMug Java API has been released. Homepage Announcement Download The kallasoft SmugMug Java API is a Java API that provides integration with the SmugMug JSON API and is developed/released under the Apache License v2.0. The simple examples page may give you a better idea of how to use the API out of the gate. Also [...]
Continue reading...Beta 5 Progress & Beta 6 Planning Update
Monday, May 26, 2008
Work on Beta 5 of the kallasoft SmugMug Java API is progressing really well. We took this opportunity to solidify the API foundation and partition off the more functionally-generic portions of it off by themselves so sub-classes of custom method implementations or future API classes could easily reuse them. This is most noticeable in the Upload method [...]
Continue reading...Added a SmugMug Java API FAQ
Friday, May 23, 2008
A new FAQ section has been added for the kallasoft SmugMug Java API.
Continue reading...Updated Examples
Monday, March 24, 2008
Some updated examples for logging in were posted to the Examples Page. There should be a pack of simple examples that are released with the Beta 5 release here in the coming weeks to make getting started with the API even easier.
Continue reading...SmugMug Java API Beta 4 Released
Monday, March 24, 2008
Beta 4 of the kallasoft SmugMug Java API has been released. Homepage Announcement Download The kallasoft SmugMug Java API is a Java API that provides integration with the SmugMug JSON API and is developed/released under the Apache License v2.0. The simple examples page may give you a better idea of how to use the API out of the gate. Also [...]
Continue reading...SmugMug Java API Beta 3 Released
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Beta 3 of the kallasoft SmugMug Java API has been released. Homepage Announcement Download The kallasoft SmugMug Java API is a Java API that provides integration with the SmugMug JSON API and is developed/released under the Apache License v2.0. The simple examples page may give you a better idea of how to use the API out of the gate. Also [...]
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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