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For almost 8 years i have ran this blog on my own blog engine, println. While at the beginning it gave me all i needed, in recent years my behavior has changed, and thus my preferences. I don’t like editing blog-posts in the browser…
If you’re running Liftweb Applications in production, you might either be using Tomcat or Jetty. If you’re using Jetty, you’ve probably stumbled across David Pollak’s jetty.tgz (i don’t find the link anymore). While it is a nice…
I like foursquare‘s libs. If you’re using liftweb a lot (and there is no reason you shouldn’t), then you’ve probably discovered the trove of treasures foursquare is managing in their repositories on GitHub. If you haven’t used Rogue,…
First off, i’ve never thought of myself as a presenter. My dad always taught me things but i didn’t really listen, to my dismay i must add. Anyway, i think i’ve done quite okay in the past (since i got good feedback). But this fall, you…
For a few months now i’ve been doing some CSV Imports in my Liftweb projects. This mostly is because the old databases i am migrating to something normal (PostgreSQL or MongoDB) are badly designed (mostly MySQL) and therefore i don’t…
When using Ruby, i found myself frequently making things like formatting methods to display a variety of things. def formatDouble(dbl) "%.2f" % dbl end Often these output formatters are render-specific, so defining them on the…
So i’ve spent the past 3 days in London, to be more specific, at Skills Matter together with David Pollak. First off, i don’t like London. I don’t know if it’s the UK, but i defiantly hate the City for various reasons (tho i love Fish…
Whew, the past few weeks were like a Rollercoaster ride between my personal downs and professional highs. I got even more high on Liftweb when i was voted Liftweb Committer almost two weeks back! So what’s coming next? I am doing…
Having some kind of safety net when something goes wrong is never bad, so today my ass got saved my just a few lines of code (which made this thing much more easier). So imagine you have a complex actor doing important business…
Happy new year!Yes, you’ve heard right. It’s been that long since i’ve blogged! Anyway, i didn’t spend my time scratching my balls, i used it wisely - yes imagine that for a change. ;) So what’s the 411 you might ask.. Lift-Bootstrap…