We are in JSMAG! The JavaScript Magazine!

After having ourselves in our own 2-megawatt spotlight in October’s GroovyMag, we are now having a nice reflowing write-up in JSMag…

Below excerpt From the JSMag site -

JavaScript & DOM Reflows - Why Reflow Is Expensive And How To Minimize It - Chetan Khurana & Chandan Luthra

If you use JavaScript for your web development, you need to know about DOM reflows. Here we discuss what reflows are and why they happen. We also go through ways to minimize reflow issues in order to improve java-script performance.

I suggest all my JS inclined friends to go ahead and check it out!

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JAVA ALERT! - A Busy Developer's Guide to RESTful Services in Java

 

I came across this good DZone article today (A Busy Developer's Guide to RESTful Services in Java)

A very good read describing the important aspects of Restful basics; for people who want to know the nuances of REST based Web Services; also provides a great comparison with the traditional Web Services (SOAP/WSDL)!

Nicely done and should be helpful!

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Know Java? Know primitives!

Well, this may not be news for the most of you java gurus out there, but many a times, the primitives DO need a revisit.

Primitives refer to the base types offered ‘out-of-the-box’ by the Java programming gamut.

The base need of primitives arose due to the advertising and popularity of Java as a compile once – run anywhere paradigm.

Anyways, the below table should be a harmless refresher for that primitive coder in you ;-)

Data Type	Size (in bits)	Default Value (for fields)
byte	8	0
short	16	0
int	32	0
long	64	0L
float	32	0.0f
double	64 (yes, same as long :-) )	0.0d
char	16	'\u0000'
boolean	1	FALSE

Hope this gives some quick help to someone out there!

Setting up tomcat with Eclipse

 

  

In this “How-To” feature, I will show you ‘How to setup Tomcat 6.x with Eclipse’. Eclipse is one of the most popular IDEs for Java out there. Being free and open source, it is supported actively by the Java developer community. Also helping its popularity is the N number of plugins supported by eclipse.

Tomcat is a server container of choice among many development environments and provides a small footprint to test out and develop the web based applications.

Together, these two provide a handy, fast and stable development environment exhibiting years of mature stability and ease of usage.

Hit the jump for ‘Setting up tomcat with Eclipse’.