New Features in the Latest Cloud Foundry

New Features in the Latest Cloud Foundry: "We recently updated CloudFoundry.com. With this update, we introduced several exciting new features that pave the way for future development. I want to take this opportunity to describe and explain these features, as well as provide some background in how they came about. We are excited for you to try them out [...]"

Need to take a look at this as an avenue for hosting FB apps. FB -> Grails -> CloudFoundry might be considerable better than FB -> Grails -> AppEngine.

DuplicateMappingException: Duplicate class/entity mapping

It turns out the deceptive exception can be thrown from an improperly formed Many-to-Many relationship declaration. I'm not going to take the time to document a correct declaration here but I was getting this misleading error message and was searching for an obvious problem with imports when it turned out to be the @ManyToMany annotation usage.

Mockingbird

Mockingbird

Handy tool to remember especially from a Mac/Linux standpoint when one lacks Visio.

Chromium Blog: A 2x Faster Web

Chromium Blog: A 2x Faster Web

It is about time someone did this. There's no reason to think the HTTP protocol is the optimal and only protocol to last through the ages.

SQLAlchemy - The Database Toolkit for Python

SQLAlchemy - The Database Toolkit for Python

I need to explore the world of ORM'ing in Python. Python might just be the best cloud option going these days.

Spring with gwt-dispatch

pgt » Use Spring with GWT dispatch

So inspired by this post and the discussion over in the gwt-dispatch group I have converted my application over from Guice to Spring. The only variance from the pgt blog post is that I am using net.customware.gwt.dispatch.server.spring.SpringStandardDispatchServlet in my web.xml. Other than that my action handlers are getting called as expected.

InfoQ: Java Card 3 Includes Java 6 Support and an Embedded Servlet Container

InfoQ: Java Card 3 Includes Java 6 Support and an Embedded Servlet Container

Wow Tomcat in your pocket. This might expand some possibilities for iPhone applications.