Viewing by month: July 2005
IBM, Laszlo bring rich Internet apps development to Eclipse
Posted on Jul 20, 2005
An InfoWorld article (found on Yahoo! here) states that IBM is formally contributing its IDE for Laszlo plugin to the Eclipse Foundation (formerly it was available at IBM's alphaWorks technology site). I have really been interested in toying with Laszlo, since Flex is expensive and my company has not yet found reason to justify the expense. However, I was intimidated by the complexity of getting it to work with JRun (here is Doug Hughes how-to if you are interested).
News Corp. to Acquire Owner of MySpace.com
Posted on Jul 18, 2005
This is not really related to development but an interesting news item to note given all the talk about mySpace.com after their keynote at CFUnited. You can read more at the NYTimes Article (may require free membership).
SourceForge Launches Eclipse Site
Posted on Jul 15, 2005
Sourceforge has launched an Eclipse focused site at eclipse.techforge.com. They are saying this is the first in a series of "TechForge vertical channel strategy" designed to "provide IT professionals and developers with in-depth resources and information about specific vertical technologies." In non-marketing speak this means that they have news and articles related to Eclipse as well as links to downloadable projects related to Eclipse (i.e. plugins). Took me a while to connect to it, but it looks "bookmark-worthy".
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How to Find the Next Record in XML Data?
Posted on Jul 06, 2005
Recently I was trying to build a page that ran off of a data set held in an XML document. I needed to pull the data for a particular character for the Transformers site, but the page also has a link to move to the next item. I am using XMLSearch to find the current record, but I was unable to determine a way to know which character was next in the xml document. I know xmlSearch actually returns a reference to a portion of the original xml structure (this can be seen in this post - note how changing the returned nodes modifies the original xml structure), but I cannot figure out how I determine where in the overall structure the returned item resides.