kallasoft

Develop using the Play! Framework

Not too long ago I posted an article on the Play! framework. The framework has some promising features that really helps develop web applications in Java. To show how easy it is to use, I wanted to demonstrate with an example. Update #1: Since the article posting there have been a couple of suggestions for [...]

Continue reading...

The Play! Framework

In an endless search for efficiently building Web applications, one might stumble upon a new framework called Play! Using enterprise backed Java with a Rails-esque feel, the Play! framework seems to offer quite a bit over traditional web development tools with its straightforward development environment and ease of deploying. Taken from the website: The Play! framework makes [...]

Continue reading...

ZK 3.5.1 Released – RIA Framework, NetBeans Plugin and Tutorial

This past week ZKoss refreshed their flagship product, ZK, to version 3.5.1. If you haven’t heard of ZK before, it is a very slick framework which was “designed to maximize enterprise operation efficiency and minimize the development cost [with] its groundbreaking Direct RIA architecture. ” Unlike most marketing ploys used to overstate the capabilities of a [...]

Continue reading...

Easy Encryption in Java and Python with Keyczar

Do you need to encrypt small text data, like serial numbers or customer numbers in your web application?  With the amount of data being transmitted online and the increasing need to protect customers against identity theft, encryption is the one and only choice to keep customers safe. Unfortunately, implementing encryption is a daunting task [...]

Continue reading...

Using ‘resources’ path in Wicket Causes Problems Loading CSS, Images and JavaScript

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...